The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss hunting down intermittently failing tests, finding unused code in your application, and why you should never ever change your test framework. RSpec Bisect RSpec 3.3 Release Notes Git Bisect Unused The Halting Problem Diesel 0.7 Support The Bike Shed

We talk through design considerations for a user-visible custom query builder for a high volume ecommerce system. Ransack Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries PgBouncer establish_connection AWS in Plain English ApartmentEx Underscore + Lodash Support The Bike Shed

We discuss Pokémon Go and what it's success might mean for software developers before Sean lays out his case for replacing the pg gem and libpq. Derek on Full Stack Radio The Laila and Brenda Show Google's Project Tango devices Pokemon Go gets full access Google auth token Why your email address isn't your identity The pg gem libpq SQL Server data types Support The Bike Shed

Aaron Patterson joins us from RailsConf for puns, performance improvements in Ruby, and AirDropping cats. Gorbypuff Virus UTF8 vs UTF16 vs UTF32 What happened to the Rails 4 queue API? Koichi talks about AOT compilation Aaron hates encoding. This isn't a link, just a fact. Sean's terrifying test script, slightly out of date rails.vim, the tpope jam Support The Bike Shed

Inspired by Nickolas Means’ fantastic RailsConf keynote, we discuss the corollaries between Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works projects and our software development projects. Sean’s DXRacer Chair Skunk Works by Nickolas Means Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Big Design Up Front Kelly’s 14 Rules and Processes Rules Made Up by You - Kelly’s rules as applied to modern software development Factory, Workshop, Stage by Sarah Mei The Tyranny of Structurelessness How to Crash an Airplane by Nickolas Means Support The Bike Shed

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds of errors, and conference speaking. The Bike Shed - Episode 1: Sandi and Derek's Rules Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers Sandi on the Ruby Rogues Don't Create Verb Classes Swift Proposal for Default Final GoRuCo 2009: SOLID Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz How to Talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein What Your Conference Proposal is Missing by Sarah Mei A big thanks to everyone who came out to our live show! A video version of this episode is available on the thoughtbot YouTube Page.Support The Bike Shed

We discuss thoughtbot's increasing use of Elixir and Phoenix and what that means for our Rails work before diving into what's new in Elixir 1.3 and Ecto 2.0. Jonathon Coulton: IKEA Derek's thoughtbot ♥️ Elixir tweet. Fuck Bullshit HTC Vive Office Simulator Demo ExMachina and Bamboo from Paul Smith Elixir 1.3 CHANGELOG Ecto 2.0 CHANGELOG Phoenix Presence Support The Bike Shed

Sean runs through a Rails bug that sits at the intersection of several magical and confusing Rails features. accepts_nested_attributes_for inverse_of autosave The proposed fix for 5.1.0 Datomic Support The Bike Shed

Leading Rails contributor Rafael Franca joins us from RailsConf to talk about taking over Sprockets, the future of the asset pipeline in Rails, managing Rails dependencies, and the hard work of software maintenance. Rafael Franca Rails Contributors Sprockets Reintroducing gzip file generation in Sprockets LibSass is Sass in C (and fast) Spriting with Compass Rails Assets is not Dead turbograft TC39 Sean said you'd all "definitely" have the final build of Rails 5 by now. Whoops!Support The Bike Shed

We talk with Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting. Terence Lee Kafka I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Queue: Using Kafka with Rails - Terence’s RailsConf talk. mruby mruby-cli Traveling Ruby Keep Ruby Weird Support The Bike Shed