Remote Ruby Rolling Out Features and Rails 8 Insights
Aug 1, 2025
Dive into the successful features and behind-the-scenes of coding as Chris and Andrew celebrate a feature launch. They share their hilarious takes on pop culture, including South Park, while delving into the challenges of integrating emoji reactions in their app. Discover insights into the upgrades of Bundler and upcoming Ruby features. The duo also discusses the importance of testing and refactoring, all sprinkled with humor and relatable anecdotes from the tech world. Get ready for a fun and insightful tech-talk!
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Emoji Reactions Feature Launch
- Andrew Mason shipped a big new emoji reactions feature for posts in their app this week.
- The feature included behind-the-scenes code refactoring and UX improvements like infinite scrolling and interaction from index pages.
Use God Object for Flipper Flags
- Use a God object when evaluating feature flags with Flipper to pass user or account context.
- This enables precise rollout and disables features for specific users or accounts effectively.
Jeff Dickey's Mies Version Manager
- Chris Oliver and Andrew Mason discussed Jeff Dickey's work on Mies, a flexible language version manager.
- Mies supports downloading precompiled Ruby versions via tarballs to avoid compilation, greatly speeding setups.