Ruby Rogues
Episodes
Mastering Hanami ft. Sebastian Wilgosz - RUBY 524
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Wilgosz joins the Rogues to discuss Hanami, a web framework for Rubyists. He discusses how it works and how it differs from other Ruby based...
Common Table Expressions in ActiveRecord ft. Vlado Cingel - RUBY 523
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vlado Cingel recounts his story where he needed common table expressions within SQL for a project he was working on and wrote a patch to AREL and Acti...
How Ruby Method Lookups Work ft. Kingsley Chijioke - RUBY 522
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kingsley Chijioke wrote an article breaking down the way that Ruby finds methods and determines which version of a method to run. The Rogues approach ...
Finding Memory Leaks in Ruby ft. Ulysse Buonomo - RUBY 521
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ulysse Buonomo ran into an issue in the application he works on where the Heroku applications were taking up more and more memory. He began tracking d...
Encryption and Security in Ruby and Rails ft. Jorge Manrubia - RUBY 520
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Manrubia is a Security developer at BaseCamp. He discusses the encryption features added in Ruby on Rails and explains where they fit into the e...
How to Thrive at Your (First) Dev Job ft. Riaz Virani - RUBY 519
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Riaz Virani joins the Rogues to discuss how to thrive at your first Dev Job. He has five main ideas that when applied will help you as a new developer...
Polished Ruby Programming ft. Jeremy Evans - RUBY 518
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Evans joins the Rogues to discuss the way he builds Ruby programs and the practices he put into his latest book "Polished Ruby Programming."The...
RUX: JSX-Style Rails View Components - RUBY 517
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Dutro joins the Rogues to discuss RUX, a system for managing your View Components in Rails in a similar way to how React uses JSX to manage it...
Docker and Ruby ft. Huzefa Biyawarwala - RUBY 516
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Huzefa Biyawarwala joins the Rogues to discuss developer tooling around Docker and how it's used with Ruby and Rails. The Rogues join in and discuss t...
Containerizing and Moving Apps to Kuberetes ft. Michael Orr – RUBY 515
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Orr joins the Rogues to discuss how to move applications into Docker for development and production environments in Kubernetes. He walks the p...
Building Mobile Apps and Ruby ft. Maxwell Anselm - RUBY 514
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maxwell Anselm discusses the options that he's found to build multi-platform mobile applications. The panel chimes in on different options.Maxwell als...
Going from Development to Production - RUBY 513
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kimura, John Epperson, Luke Stutters, Darren Broemmer, and Valentino Stoll talk about their experiences in setting up a maintainable development ...
Using Typing Systems in Ruby with Sorbet ft. Alex Dunae - RUBY 512
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Dunae joins the Rogues to discuss his experience introducing types into an existing codebase using the Sorbet gem and how it saved him and his co...
Live Streaming to the Command LIne with ActionCable ft. Hans Schnedlitz - RUBY 511
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Schnedlitz joins the Rogues to discuss how you can use ActionCable to get feedback on ongoing tasks in the commandline by connecting to a websock...
Ruby JIT and MJIT ft. Takashi Kokubun - RUBY 510
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Takashi Kokubun joins the Rogues to dive into Just in Time compiling, Ruby 3.0 and all the goodness that comes with it.He explains how it relates not ...
Load Testing Rails Apps with JMeter ft. Milap Neupane - RUBY 509
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Milap Neupane joins the Rogues to talk about how to know how robust your Rails apps are.Sometimes you forget to optimize database queries or network c...
Debugging Ruby ft. Fabio Perrella - RUBY 508
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fabio Perrella joins the Rogues to discuss debugging Ruby programs and how to find problems across your code and your dependencies.The panel shares th...
Building with Just What You Need Using Roda with Jeremy Evans - RUBY 507
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Evans, author of the Roda framework, joins the Rogues to talk about how to use Roda to build Ruby web applications.Roda is a super lightweight ...
What's Cooking in Rails 7 featuring Jason Dinsmore - RUBY 506
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Dinsmore went spelunking through the changelogs for Rails and pulled out the latest features for the most popular Ruby web development framework...
The Ruby Fiber Scheduler with Wander Hillen - RUBY 505
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Ruby fiber scheduler is a powerful new feature in Ruby that we brought Wander Hillen along to discuss with us. Ruby fibers are a way of managing t...
Models in Migrations? and a Year of Open Source Contributions with Jake Yesbeck - RUBY 504
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Yesbeck joins the Rogues this week to talk about how to handle models and data migrations in your Ruby on Rails applications. He and the Rogues d...
Cleanly and Easily Serializing JSON with Alba featuring Masafumi Okura - RUBY 503
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Masafumi Okura is the organizer of Kaigi on Rails and the author of the Alba--a JSON serializer library. The Rogues dive in and get the details on Kai...
Refactoring to Five Lines of Code with Christian Clausen - RUBY 502
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Clausen is the author of the book Five Lines of Code in the Manning Early Access Program. He advocates for a rule based refactoring system. ...
Can Active Storage Serve Images for the Modern Web? by Mark Hutter - RUBY 501
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kimura and Luke Stutters talk with Mark Hutter about Active Storage and his experience building a large image driven application. We talk about s...
The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or som...
Episode 500 - RUBY 500
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck, Luke, and Dave are joined by Eric Berry for a roundtable chat and celebration of 500 episodes and 10 years of Ruby Rogues. They start out discu...
How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, i...
Upgrading from Sprockets to Webpacker with Ariel Juodziukynas - RUBY 499
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Juodziukynas joins the Rogues to talk about how to upgrade your Ruby on Rails application from Sprockets to Webpacker. Sprockets was introduc...
Developing your development - RUBY 498
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mason McLead from software.com shows us the editor-integrated suite of tools that help you become a better developer. We find out what music makes you...
Building a UDP Server with Ruby Ractors with Claus Lensbøl - RUBY 497
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claus Lensbøl is a Danish Devops engineer who built a UDP server using Ractors--a new feature in Ruby 3.0. Ractors is a method of getting concurrency...
Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major rea...
Why Write Rails View Tests with Nikola Đuza - RUBY 496
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We test our Rails Controllers, Models, Helpers, and Services. But, why don't we test our views? Nikola Đuza has started testing his and explains how ...
Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to ge...
Reflecting on Stimulus with Julian Rubisch - RUBY 495
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Julian about a few projects, including Stimulus, Stimulus Reflex, and SPAs and how they fit into our modern tech stacks. Panel Char...
BONUS: Relationships Matter Most
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine pos...
RUBY 494: Reducing Friction at the Authorization Layer with John Nunemaker
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kimura, Luke Stutters, and John Epperson talk with John Nunemaker about Rails Authorization. John dives into the Pundit and how he had created a ...
BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other peop...
RUBY 493: The Things Rubyists Need to Know
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do Rubyists need to know beyond the language fundamentals? What things about the language and its tooling will best serve developers working on p...
BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer?
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him a...
RUBY 492: Architectures and Microservices with Darren Broemmer
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Darren Broemmer joins the Rogues to discuss how Ruby on Rails enables a microservices architecture and when it's appropriate to approach your system's...
BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and b...
RUBY 491: The Hidden Gems of Ruby
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Valentino Stoll takes us on a tour of the "gems" of features built into the core Ruby language. We explore tips and tricks for using irb that can also...
BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long li...
BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long li...
RUBY 490: Ruby 2.7 to 3.0
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave, John, and Luke get together to finish the discussion leading up to the Ruby 3.0 release. They talk about the different features and concerns tha...
BONUS: How Senior Developers Can Enjoy Learning Like They Were Juniors
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior devel...
RUBY 489: Demystifying Webpack and Webpacker with Paweł Dąbrowski
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paweł Dąbrowski wrote a Deep Dive into Webpacker on his blog. He joins the Rogues to help the understand more of the ins and outs of Webpack and Web...
RUBY 488: The Road to Ruby 3 - Part 1 - Ruby 2.6 to Ruby 2.7
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John, Luke, and Chuck begin the discussion on Ruby 3.0's release by discussing the differences and enhancements in Ruby 2.7 over vers...
RUBY 487: Our Development Setups
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave, Luke, and Chuck dive into their development setups. They talk through the different Operating Systems, IDEs, text editors, command lines, desks,...
RUBY 131: How to Learn
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/131-rr-how-to-learn/ SponsorsDev Heroes AcceleratorRa...
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality ...
BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality ...
RUBY 486: Authorization Hacks
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he's building in his spare time. John, Dave, and Chuck dive into the current authori...
RUBY 485: What is a Top 5% Developer?
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can m...
RUBY 484: Bootcamps: Bad or Badass
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on related topics like interviewing.Pane...
RR 428: Arming the Rebels with Rails 6 Featuring David Heinemeier Hansson
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This episode is focused on the release o...
RUBY 483: Unlocking the Power of Functional Programming and Elm with Richard Feldman
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and using Elm. Elm is a programming l...
BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount)Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk...
RUBY 482: Successfully Onboarding a Junior Engineer in Three Steps with Emily Giurleo
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for creating autonomous, competent d...
RUBY 481: Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also l...
RUBY 480: The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage with Paul Zaich
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ...
BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strate...
RUBY 479: Mistakes Were Made with Jesse Spevack
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, ...
RUBY 478: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day devel...
RUBY 477: Black-Belt Debugging with Chelsea Troy
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn how to actively improve debugging...
RUBY 476: SQL, Arel and the Dark Side of ActiveRecord with Eric Hayes
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths of Arel, ActiveRecord’s private...
RR 475: Succeeding to Your Next CodingPhase with Joe Santos Garcia
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully get into coding and grow into a c...
RR 474: React on Rails V12 - Don't Shave That Yak! with Justin Gordon
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about creating a great developer exper...
RR 473: GraphQL Doesn't Need To Be Hell with Dmitry Tsepelev
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the advantages over REST-based API qu...
RR 472: Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith with Jonathan Reinink
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why Rails developers would want to use it...
RR 471: Sorbet with Ufuk Kayserilioglu
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the benefits they felt they received...
RR 470: Performance Improvement of Ruby 3.0 JIT with Takashi Kokubun
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in Ruby for the Ruby 3×3 goal all w...
RR 469: Refactoring with James Dabbs
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoringSponsorCacheFlyPanelDave Kimura...
RR 468: Diversity Matters: Diversifying Your Applicant Pool with Tricia Ball
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the rest of STEM) since the 1980s, rea...
RR 467: Rails at Super Scale with Kyle d'Oliveira
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We...
RR 466: Beating Impostor Syndrome with Dylan Andrews
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior developer to successful senior software e...
RR 465: WebAuthn in Ruby with Gonzalo Rodriguez and Braulio Martinez
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our applications. WebAuthn is a stand...
RR 464: PWAs on Rails with John Beatty
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the Rogues through the ins and outs of b...
RR 463: Can We Fix What We Can't See? with James Thompson
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet"In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how...
RR 462: Graphiti, REST, and GraphQL with Lee Richmond
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the spiritual successor to ActiveResourc...
RR 461: Rethinking the View Layer with Components with Joel Hawksley
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Hawksley is an engineer at Github who works on some of their Rails architecture. He is one of the authors of the view_component gem. He walks the...
RR 460: How to Brainstorm Introverts with DeeDee Lavinder
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions, thereby getting their input in situ...
RR 459: Mutation Testing with Dave Aronson
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now!Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation star...
RR 458: Rules of OOP in Pictures with Ivan Nemytchenko
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now!Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at Ra...
RR 457: Upgrading to Rails 6
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now!Dave has been upgrading some of his Rails apps. Chuck has gone through several upgrades in ...
RR 456: Ruby for Good :) with Sean Marcia
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now!Sean Marcia organizes Ruby For Good—an organization for building technology to solve the ...
RR 455: What's Up, Rogues?
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 13th to 15th - register now!This episode is a roundup discussion about what the podcast hosts have going on these days....
RR 454: Music and Factory Bot with Daniel Colson
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now!Daniel Colson, from Thoughtbot and maintainer of Factory Bot, joins Dave Kimura, Luke Sutte...
RR 453: Ruby Next: Get future Ruby changes now with Vladimir Dementyev
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020May 14th to 15th - register now! We talk with Vladimir Dementyev about Ruby Next, its use cases and why you might want to...
RR 452: The History and Personalities of Ruby with Chris O’Sullivan
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris O’Sullivan joins the Rogues to talk about the people who influenced Ruby and how it’s shaped the community and technology we have today.Pane...
RR 451: Pair Programming with Ian Norris
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Kimura and John Epperson talk with Ian Norris on his experiences with Pair Programming. We discuss misconceptions, when pair programming works a...
RR 450: Writing Ruby for the Apple II with Colin Fulton
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Fulton has written a Ruby implementation in assembly for the Apple II. He's also got a fondness for the impossible and impractical applications ...
RR 449: Everything worth doing has already been done with Zachary Schroeder
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Zachary and the panelists speak about doing small projects. They cover half-done projects, when is a project really “...
RR 448: How To Avoid Catastrophes with Jon Druse
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Druse is a developer from Tennessee and has been using Rails for 15 years. He starts the show by sharing some of the background behind his RailsCo...
RR 447: All About Kafka and Oracle with Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad are on the Oracle developer relations team. Karthik has been on Ruby Rogues previously, and he explains how he went fr...
RR 446: Development Environments
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today the panel is talking about their development environments and preferences. Most of them run on Macs, but they talk about other operating systems...
RR 445: Location Services with Mithun Dhar
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mithun leads development relations at HERE Technologies which specializes in building location services and location platforms. A lot of location is s...
RR 444: Rails Against the Machine
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brittany Martin, Lead Web Developer at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust joins the panel today to talk about her talk "Rails Against The Machine". She has...
RR 443: Sharing Tips from the Trench with Sven Akerman Jr.
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sven Akerman Jr. is the chief architect at Outlook Insight. Today he and the panel are talking about the process behind development, specifically how ...
RR 442:Ruby Rogues Live at GitLab Commit 2019
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Charles Max Wood interviews speakers at GitLab Commit 2019. Eddie Zaneski from Digital Ocean talks about "Creating a C...