Remote Ruby How Thoughtbot Works with Steve “Four-peat” Polito
[00:09:02] We find out what Steve is doing now and what he did before thoughtbot.
[00:13:30] Steve explains how the team works at thoughtbot.
[00:17:00] Since people roll in and out of the team, how does Steve manage to bring someone up to speed quickly?
[00:20:02] We learn what the onboarding process is when they get new clients so the team can easily jump in.
[00:23:46] Jason brings up a thoughtbot gem called Suspenders and Steve tells us more about it.
[00:25:26] Steve explains how working at IMPACT set him up for what he’s doing now.
[00:29:26] Andrew wants to know what Steve’s response would be to someone asking him to stop building maintainable software and just pump out code.
[00:31:39] Chris wonders if Steve works with their client’s developers or his own team.
[00:33:45] Steve spoke earlier about leaving notes using the Rails Note tool and how important is to comment, and Jason highlights why he thinks that is so important.
[00:35:20] We find out some other things Steve’s working on besides finishing up on building Rails Auth from scratch.
Panelists:
Jason Charnes
Chris Oliver
Andrew Mason
Guest:
Steve Polito
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