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This week, Sean and Derek discuss performance and inheriting code. In a stroke of complete madness, Derek decides that turbolinks isn't that bad. Spree Browserscope network profile details RFC2616 is Dead Original HTTP/1.1 connection limit Updated HTTP/1.1 connection specification removes the specific limit cloud-to-butt turbolinks jquery.turbolinks async script loading Disabling form buttons with disable_with FOUT: flash of unstyled text Support The Bike Shed

Derek is joined by Gordon Fontenot for a discussion of the JSON API specification, problems consuming it from Swift, and the future of functional programming in Swift. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links / Show Notes JSON API Argo: Functional JSON parsing in Swift Swift Optionals Spine: A Swift JSON API client Curry: Swift framework for function currying. HAL: Hypertext Application Language SOAP JSON Schema Runes Build Phase- For more of Gordon's insight into baseball and iOS development Gordon on Twitter Cookie Clicker Swarm Sim Support The Bike Shed

Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues big and small. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show Notes Speed Science - Richard's Railsconf 2015 talk mail gem memory use mime-types memory use Deprecate *_path methods in mailers XKCD: Evey change breaks someone's workflow Why does 6 times 9 equal 42? The Language Strangeness Budget Code Triage Docs Doctor Ruby Together Keep Ruby Weird Richard on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Sean gives Derek a tour of Rust, a new systems language from Mozilla. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Rust The Rust Programming Language Guaranteeing Memory Safety in Rust Rust traits Cargo include_str! Pattern matching in Rust Support The Bike Shed

Eileen Uchitelle joins the show to discuss performance improvements to ActiveRecord, speeding up integration tests, and contributing to or running open source projects. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by: Code School: Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School. Links & Show Notes No Capes! CRUD! The Consequences of Not Understanding How ActiveRecord - Eileen's Midwest Ruby Talk fix delete_all to remove records directly How To Performance - Eileen's talk from GORUCO Breaking Down the Barrier: Demystifying Contributing to Rails - Eileen's lab from RailsConf Eileen on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Rails Core Team member Godfrey Chan joins the show to demystify rails bug hunting and contributing. Godfrey's RailsConf talk: Prying Open The Black Box The Waltons Say Goodnight Canada gem Rails Bug Templates Rails Contributing Guide Travis Container Infrastructure Vancouver Ruby Group Godfrey on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

We're joined by Josh Clayton to discuss our differing strategies on testing view behavior, strategies for dealing with brittle feature specs, and what types of tests each of us favor. Verifying partial doubles Decent exposure Defining helpers directly on the view in view specs Don't stub the system under test Clearance Back Door Automatic form filling driven by i18n and Factory Girl with Formulaic Mystery guests Using data attributes to decouple data from presentation Testing pyramid Shoulda Matchers Consistency Fail Josh Clayton on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest. RSpec 3 adds composable matchers Spies were added to RSpec in 2.14 Using any_instance to test legacy code minitest RSpec's stub_const method. Don't Stub the System Under Test assigns and assert_template are deprecated in Rails 5 Sam's RailsConf talk: Understanding Rails Test Types in RSpec Fun & Plausible Solutions Sam on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Sean and Derek discuss rails asset dependencies before diving into an overview of animation techniques and C extensions. Rails Assets Gemify Assets for Rails Non-digested asset names in Rails 4 Animation Rigging Unreal Engine Unity Physically Based Rendering The Carmack Constant or Fast Inverse Square Root Bending the Curve: Writing Safe & Fast Native Gems With Rust Support The Bike Shed

We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies. Sam Saffron Discourse rack-mini-profiler stackprof RubyBench default_scope SQL Views Scenic - Database view support in Rails Grafana Docker Types of Rails schema dumps Message Bus Logster Feedback? You can tweet us, email us, or leave a comment on our website.Support The Bike Shed