

Remote Ruby
Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason
Two Rubyists having conversations and interviewing others about Ruby and web development.
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Feb 3, 2020 • 1h 3min
Mental Health, Rails Upgrades, Jason's New Project, Bootstrap Shift, and More
ChurchChatBootstrap ShiftMonolithsAttractor Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Jan 31, 2020 • 56min
New Jumpstart Features, Postponing Southeast Ruby 2020, and (Possibly) a New Online Ruby Conference
Jumpstart ProUppySoutheast RubyPrunerThis Week in RailsNate Berkopec: "Part of the reason I continue to invest in Ruby is that no one ever says "I stopped using Ruby because it wasn't very productive/expressive/fun". No one is switching to <insert meme language of the moment here> because it's "more" of one of those things."Using Ruby in 2019 Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Jan 20, 2020 • 46min
"Just Keep Hitting Tab"
Learn Rails by Building Instagram Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Dec 23, 2019 • 55min
Concerns, Interactors, and Ruby 2.7 Features (Ruby 2.7 Christmas Day 🎉)
On Writing Software WellRefactoring the Gilded RoseEnough With the Service Objects AlreadyConcerns in Code Fund Source CodeWhat's New in Ruby 2.7Only 15% of the Basecamp Operations Budget is Spent on Ruby Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Dec 13, 2019 • 52min
Introducing Nate Hopkins, Working with ActionCable's API, Webpacker in Rails Engines, and Stimulus Reflex Updates
In this episode, we welcome Nate Hopkins to the sho, talk about ActionCable's API, discuss Jason's trouble with using JavaScript in a new Rails engine, get some updates from Nate on Stimulus Reflex, and Andrew shares experience with managing open source GitHub Action projects. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Dec 6, 2019 • 53min
Introducing Andrew Mason, CI Tooling, Ruby 2.7 Features, Rails 6.1 on the Radar
Rubocop Linter GitHub ActionWhat's New in Ruby 2.7Pattern Matching - New Feature in Ruby 2.7 by Kazuki TsujimotoModel Error as Object (Rails PR #32313)Introduce Support for ActionView::Component (Rails PR #36388)ActionView::Component Previews (ActionView::Component PR #96) Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Dec 3, 2019 • 41min
Building Chat Applications, GitHub Actions, HatchBox Features, and Mistakes
In this pre-Thanksgiving episode released post-Thanksgiving, we talk about what it was like working with ActionCable and React on Podia's latest feature, messaging. We also talk through GitHub actions, some of the features of HatchBox (including using DigitalOcean Spaces as a drop-in S3 replacement), and a plethora of mistakes I (Jason) have made over the last two weeks. Best yet, we cram it into forty minutes. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Nov 25, 2019 • 41min
Better Late Than Never
Payments with Rails Master ClassFieldhelp Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Oct 25, 2019 • 42min
Managed Databases in Hatchbox, Stripe Workflows, ActionText, and ActionMailbox
In this episode, we talk about Chris' adventures implementing managed database support into HatchBox, the different workflows you can take when implementing Stripe into an application, and Jason's Rails 6 project using both ActionText and ActionMailbox. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Oct 18, 2019 • 45min
Testing in Ruby
I said the word "RSpec" a couple of minutes in, and then we spent 40 minutes talking about testing. We talk about our separate tastes of Minitest and RSpec, TDD, JavaScript testing, and more! Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter