52: You look really fancy in your tuxedo

In this special episode, number 52, and our 1 year anniversary episode, recorded at RailsConf 2013, Ben Orenstein is joined by Ruby and Rails core team member Aaron Patterson, thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris, and a live studio audience. The trio discuss Rails 4, observers, callbacks, dubstep, namespaces, Scheme, functional programming, thread safety in Rails, what it would take to remove callbacks from Rails and why you would want to do it, what should be in our anniversary episode, dealing with Rails security issues, why Aaron likes to work on Rails, meeting people's expectations, Vim, intuitive software, and so much more.

• Array#forty_two
• ChickenScheme
• The Racket language
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
• Metacircular interpreter
• Play by Play: Aaron Patterson
• Heroku fucking console

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