Remote Ruby

[00:05:33] Jason introduces himself and tells us what he does. [00:06:48] Jason defines what a service object is and how he views them, and then asks the guys if they use service objects and what comes to mind when they hear the term service objects. [00:11:45] We find out about a blog post that Jason wrote recently that he tells us about. [00:13:49] Chris talks about good complicated examples are the hardest to come up with, and Jason tells us about a challenge he had with cases in his own work and he addresses something Chris said about testing. [00:17:01] We hear Jason’s hypothesis as to why service objects are so popular.[00:22:48] Chris tells us about an app that he made that supports sub domains and custom domains, and he talks about Basecamp open source Name of Person gem and what it does. [00:27:14] Jason talks about some distractions that they’ve come up in their app.[00:30:51] A great point is brought up by Jason about paying close attention to the names of things in Rails you will notice everything is made out of objects. [00:32:29] An obstacle to learning about this stuff is that Rails itself obscures a lot, so Jason shares some recommendations on how to get through it.[00:35:47] We learn more about Jason’s newest book he released on testing called, “The Complete Guide to Rails Testing.” (use code REMOTERUBY for an awesome discount!) [00:39:48] If the testing stuff sounds interesting to you and you want a sample of what Jason’s teaching, go to railstestingguide.com and get a little guide that he put together that helps you get started.  [00:40:38] Find out where you can follow Jason online.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverGuest:Jason SwettSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Jason Swett TwitterJason Swett LinkedinCode with JasonThe Rails with Jason PodcastThe Complete Guide to Rails Testing by Jason Swett (50% off with code REMOTERUBY)Name of Person-GitHubRailstestingguide.com Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:00:49] What an interesting week for Andrew! Find out exactly what happened to him and all about his “concerns” he had at work. [00:07:41] Chris was on Twitter this week talking about maybe bringing back “Rails Rumble” and he would love to make it happen but would need help. [00:12:20] We find out if anyone has participated in a Hackathon before. Chris and Jason talk about one time they tried to have their own Hackathon and what happened.[00:18:27] Andrea, the “Caddy Expert,” tells us all about Caddy and how Caddy 2 has the built in API. [00:22:21] Andrea talks about a “proof of concept” she put together instead of using an API.[00:24:53] Andrew wonders if Caddy is just a replacement for NGINX and Chris explains. He also mentions that Caddy is like NGNIX on steroids. ☺ [00:28:53] Chris tells us what Passenger does, and Andrea shares something about Passenger.[00:31:50] We learn more about Andrea’s Hotwire course, and she shares her opinions on good case uses for Hotwire or StimulusReflex. [00:37:35] Andrea tells us the biggest confusion with a lot of people who have gone through her course.[00:38:39] Andrea announces there is a link to her course as well as Jason’s course, and you should check them both out. Andrea also announces she is giving a 15% discount on her course for Remote Ruby listeners!  ☺[00:39:08] We end with Chris announcing the launch of the Hotwire iOS template for Jumpstart Pro, which is going to be pretty sweet.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonGuest:Andrea FomeraSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Andrea Fomera WebsiteLearn Hotwire by Building a Forum-Course by Andrea FomeraInteractive Rails with StimulusReflex- Course by Jason CharnesRails RumbleCaddyMicrosoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested- Perl ScriptingJumpstart Pro iOSPassengerNGINX Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Joe Masilotti, an experienced developer, discusses building iOS apps using Hotwire/Turbo.js. Topics include early days with Turbolinks, JavaScript Bridge, Progressive Enhancement, Authentication, App Store approval, payments, testing on TestFlight, Android development, and where to follow Joe online.

[00:02:05] We learn how RailsConf 2021 was from Chris, and Andrew makes an announcement that he’s moving out of state and something about always wanting to be a trucker. ☺ [00:07:45] Chris fills us in on what he talked about at RailsConf 2021, which was on Action Text, Turbo, and ActionMailbox.[00:10:51] Jason tells us about using Action Text and what happened.  Chris and Andrew chat more about Action Text, Trix, and Markdown Editor.[00:14:34] Turbo Native is brought up and Chris talks about working on the iOS wrapper for Jumpstart Pro. He also brings up a screencast he just did for GoRails on Request Variants for templates for phones and tablets.[00:22:45] Jason mentions working on a side project and how it’s going, using Render, and how Andrea wrote a blog post about it.[00:28:38] We learn more about Caddy 2 and Chris tells us something he built a few weeks ago with job boards using Caddy. [00:34:20] Andrew mentions his company is hiring so check the link below if you want to work with him! Chris and Andrew also talk about the need for juniors at companies.[00:38:02] Jason is excited to hear the new version of Hatchbox and Chris explains about how SSL has been the toughest parts of it.  [00:40:49] Chris talks about Heroku, how it’s starting to show its age, and how they really need to have HTTP2.[00:43:55] Find out about one of the guys who bought Jumpstart Pro and a pull request he made to improve the Docker file there. [00:47:55] Chris mentions there was no rumblings about Rails 7.0 at RailsConf 2021. Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Render“How to Deploy Ruby on Rails to Render.com” by Andrea FomeraSenior Ruby Developer Job PostingJumpstart ProCaddy 2Trix-GitHubGoRails Screencast by Chris Oliver- “Multiple Device support with Request Variants in Rails.” Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

After Jason talked about his side project last week, he tells us he had to abandon Stripe checkout and did something else instead, and Chris announced he just did a Stripe Checkout video for GoRails this week. Joining us on today’s episode, we have Joel Hawksley, an Engineer at GitHub and creator of ViewComponent. We learn what ViewComponents are, how Joel came up with the idea, and his latest experiment and vision for it, which is a big one. Joel tells us some ideas he has for Cuprite, and Andrew talks about how Percy is a nice tool to use. Also, for those of you who haven’t used the components library or maybe haven’t started thinking about building Rails apps in terms of components, Joel is here to help answer some questions Andrew has for him.  [00:03:23] Joel tells us about himself and what he does at GitHub.[00:05:38] Find out what ViewComponents are and how Joel came up with this idea.[00:09:38] Jason wonders if there are any experiments that Joel has tried that didn’t work out with ViewComponent or things that were experiments that were really successful.  [00:10:52] Joel fills us in on his latest experiment and his vision for it.[00:16:33] Joel tells us about generating the styled component in React inline and he brings up a problem with view caching with styled components where he needs help from people.[00:21:12] Andrew talks about a gnarly Tailwind class he did.[00:22:52] Joel fills us in on some cool things they started experimenting with.  He also mentions looking at Cuprite and having some wild ideas for it.[00:24:56] Andrew and Joel chat about using Percy.[00:29:36] Andrew asks Joel when to reach for the partial over the component.[00:31:01] Since the last time they talked, Joel said that they had a lot of success in building components out of smaller components, and Andrew wants to know if this is still the case.[00:32:16] Learn more about using partial components.[00:33:39] Find out what Joel thinks makes a good component. [00:38:30] Andrew asks Joel if some cool things he’s seen with ViewComponents that other people have done.[00:41:00] Jason wonders if Joel has any predictions and where does he think this is going. [00:43:34] Joel chats about parallels in between the JavaScript and the CSS space.[00:46:09] Jason brings up ViewComponent and a PR that was opened to get it into Rails, and then he found out that it isn’t going to be put into Rails, and Joel explains in depth the reason behind this.  [00:51:09] RailsConf 2021 is coming up and Joel tells us what he’ll be talking about.[00:55:17] Find out where you can follow Joel online.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonGuest:Joel HawksleySponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Joel Hawksley Website The Ruby Blend Podcast-Episode 9: ViewComponent at GitHub with Joel HawksleyStripe Checkout in Rails with the Pay gem by Chis Oliver Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:01:51] Jason tells us he’s been on “bug rotation” at Podia this week and he shares how they do it.[00:05:53] Chris explains how he was working on some Rewardful stuff.[00:08:00] Jason announces Andrea Fomera has released her Hotwire course and some great things that have happened with that.  [00:12:05] Jason tells us about a new side project he’s been working on which is an E-commerce platform for physical goods aimed towards print shops. He picks Chris’s brain about payment gotchas he’s come across.[00:16:48] The guys chat about Stripe and Stripe Connect.[00:22:03] Chris asks Jason if he’s using OAuth connection or the Account linking and explains why he finds it very convenient. [00:23:55] Chris talks about the different complexities in marketplaces.[00:26:23] Paddle, which is built on top of Stripe, is explained by Chris. [00:27:52] Chris explains the differences in Stripe and Braintree. [00:29:28] Jason shares he’s had a lot of edge cases lately, explains what’s been going on, and Chris helps him out.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum by Andrea FomeraRewardfulStripeStripe ConnectPaddleBraintree Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:03:19] Andrew starts us off with a funny story starting with having some discrepancies on staging and locally and using redirect back method. [00:06:52] Chris and Andrew dive into discussing Leftpad.[00:12:05] Chris brings up the fiasco that went down on Twitter with mimemagic dependency and Andrew explains it.  [00:18:39] We learn about a new version of Rails that was just released, and Chris mentions the mimemagic gem has 110 million downloads! Andrew gives a shout-out to Jon Wood.[00:23:06] Andrew talks about licenses being hard to understand and about GPL (General Public License) packages that you may have in your app and not know about.[00:24:43] Chris tells us about fiddling with fixing some tests and things. [00:27:35] Vendor gem is explained by Andrew, and Chris shares a story about using legacy code.[00:32:38] Chris announces he finished his RailsConf 2021 talk after spending about forty hours working on it, he tells us more about the schedule of events, and how it’s going to be better than last year.[00:36:46] Chris and Andrew reminisce about missing the in-person conferences and just being able to hang out with everybody. Andrew tells us there are a ton of Ruby meetups virtually happening, not a lot are U.S. based, but anyone can join them, and he will be speaking at one soon. [00:37:58] Chris is doing a Q&A on day three of RailsConf 2021, and you can ask him your burning question about how cool Jason is! ☺ Chris also mentions to not miss Aaron Patterson’s talk.[00:41:33] Chris mentions we have this sort of revival of everything right now and how Rails 7 is slated for RailsConf and Webpacker 6 is coming out as well.[00:42:30] Andrew talks about how he wrote a comprehensive article on upgrading Webpack 6 and he tells us what happened.  Chris talks about doing a tuple the other day and he asks Andrew if he ran into the issue with the content hash being missing in Webpack 6. Panelists:Chris OliverAndrew MasonSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Jon Wood TwitterRailsConf 2021mimemagic 0.4.3Dependency on mimemagic 0.3.x no longer valid-GitHubYanked 0.3x breaks Rails install-GitHubGNU General Public License, version 2Mimemagic Dependency graph-GitHubWepacker 6: Upgrade Guide by Andrew MasonMissouri DMV Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:01:45] Fred gives us a brief introduction of what he’s working on these days.[00:03:50] Fred did a conference talk about the Third Age of JavaScript and he tells us what it is.[00:07:07] Andrew asks Fred to explain what ESM is and modules.  [00:10:53] We learn about using Skypack when Andrew brings up about not having to run NPM install on your local machine. [00:14:30] Chris wonders if there is a use for Babel still in the ESM world or not.[00:16:37] We find out more about Snowpack. [00:21:13] Andrew gives an example how he used Snowpack. [00:23:00] Andrew asks Fred to talk about any issues that he’s seen as people try to transition away from Webpack to Snowpack. [00:30:21] Fred fills us in about his team at Snowpack and Skypack. Andrew asks him what the differences are in a package that you would require from a script versus an ESM available package.[00:34:00] Andrew wonders if Fred can tell him what the exports field in a package JSON is because he has no idea what it is.[00:38:16] Fred tells us what we get with the service side rendering stuff they’ve been working on. [00:42:03] Andrew asks Fred if he thinks the web is every going to adopt a universal bundler now that ESM is fully specked out, or are we always going to be in the situation where if you need it you’re going to have to find it somewhere.[00:47:27] We learn one last important thing from Andrew and Fred about using Babel and bundling with Snowpack, and where you can follow Fred online.  Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonGuest:Fred SchottSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:Fred Schott TwitterFred Schott WebsiteSnowpack TwitterSkypack TwitterThe Third Age of JavaScript by Shawn@SWYX SkypackSnowpackCascadiaJS 2020-Snowpack, Webpack and the Third Age of JavaScript with Fred Schott Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:01:00] The guys chat about what happened this week in their lives, getting COVID vaccines, and Chris trying to get a title transferred on an old car.[00:10:57] Andrew poses a question to Jason and Chris which has to do with Delegated Types. Chris and Jason have a discussion about using it.[00:17:13] Chris mentions pagination being a problem and how querying and then merging could work. After having the discussion, Andrew says it all makes sense to him.  [00:22:14] Jason tells us about a pretty gnarly JSONB data migration he had to write this week. [00:24:16] Chris tells us he got his RailsConf talk approved and what it’s about.[00:26:19] Andrew asks the guys for advice on what their process is on building a course because he started to make a VS course for Rails and he’s trying to figure out a system. Is it a HAML course?[00:32:46 Andrew asks Jason’s advice about the right time to register for Podia.[00:38:21] Since Andrew is in the process of making his course, Jason tells Andrew since he’s a VS code user, he would love to see something tailored towards Ruby developers.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonSponsor:HoneybadgerJob Openings:SpectoraSpectora-Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails/JavaScript) WantedLinks:Active Record-Delegated TypesGiphy-Achievement HunterRailsConf 2021Chris' Railsconf talk Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[00:04:17] Chris asks the guys if they submitted a talk to RailsConf 2021. Andrew tells us about a virtual talk at a meetup he’s giving in June.[00:08:53] Chris tells us about something he helped start a long time ago called LaunchCode.[00:11:58] Find out what Chris’s submission to RailConf 2021 is on. [00:16:54] Chris helps Andrew understand Turbo better.  [00:25:40] Jason talks about wondering what it would be like to shove turbo into React Native since he’s built stuff in it. Chris shares his ideas. [00:28:11] Andrew asks Chris if you can use Turbo to build a PWA. Jason tells us about a PWA he built once.[00:31:15] Jason brings up htmx and asks the guys if they are familiar with it. [00:35:26] The guys chat about JSON and another version of it.[00:37:21] Andrew talks about how he put Turbo on is website since he was rebuilding it. He was also wondering in Rails7 if they are going to remove Rails UJS, and if so, that is going to majorly change the upgrade or the feasibility of the upgrade as well. Chris shares some ideas.[00:41:28] Andrew explains how DHH talked about if you’re building libraries, TypeScript is awesome, and also mentions a book by Noel Rappin. [00:45:38] Andrew and Chris talk about the importance of learning to write better Ruby to solve problems.Panelists:Jason CharnesChris OliverAndrew MasonSponsor:HoneybadgerLinks:RailsConf 2021LaunchCodeAction Mailbox Turbo-GitHubhtmx-GitHubReact Native-GitHubTypeScript-GitHubJSON5Modern Front-End Development for Rails: Webpacker, Stimulus, and React By Noel Rappin (Pre-order)  Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter