The Rails Changelog
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
029: Tuning Ruby on Rails App Performance with Jean Boussier
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jean Boussier and I dive deep into performance optimisation for Ruby on Rails applications. From diagnosing common bottlenecks and ma...
028: Discussing Ruby's Data class, some Ruby quirks with Victor Shepelev
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Victor Shepelev, a member of the Ruby Core team and the author of Ruby’s new Data class. We dive into why Ruby need...
027: Migrating a Rails Monolith from MySQL to Trilogy with Adrianna Chang
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with a seasoned Rails engineer to dive into the technical intricacies and community-building work that power the Ruby ecos...
026: Exploring Rails' Default Debugger with Stan Lo
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The debugger you didn't know you needed. Ruby comes with an official debugger called Debug, which is now included in new Rails applications. Surprisin...
025: Rails, Compilers & Profilers with Aaron Patterson
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As you'd expect, any conversation with Aaron inevitably involves Ruby, Rails, compilers, and profiling. In this episode, we delve into all these topic...
024: Structuring Rails Apps with Matt Swanson
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Matt discusses his podcast Yagny FM and the motivation behind it. He also talks about his approach to open source contributions ...
023: Solid Queue Internals with Rosa Gutierrez
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Rosa Gutierrez of 37signals, Rosa elaborates on her work, particularly her contributions to Solid Queue and its implementation ...
022: Discussing Rails Camp USA with Bobbilee Hartman
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Bobbilee, a pivotal figure in the Rails community, shares the inspiring journey behind Rails Camp West. Bobbilee talks about the orig...
021: From Active Record Business Logic to DDD & Events with Andrzej Krzywda
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrzej Krzywda discusses event sourcing, event-driven architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in the context of Ruby on Rails applications. He e...
020: Andy Croll & Ufuk Kayserilioglu Uncover RailsConf 2024 Details
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation covers various aspects of RailsConf, including its mission, organization, and selection process for talks. The chapters delve into th...
019: Exploring RubyGems with Jenny Shen
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Developer Jenny Shen from Shopify joins me to discuss RubyGems. In this episode, we unravel the intricate mechanics of dependency resolution wi...
018: Rails 8 is coming!
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this monologue, I've highlighted just a few of the features that I'm eagerly anticipating in Rails 8. As the first episode of the year, I've also a...
017: A deeper dive into Zeitwerk with Xavier Noria
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Xavier Noria of the Rails Core team adeptly delves into the intricacies of Zeitwerk in this episode. Our discussion extends to elucidate the distincti...
016: Fireside chat with Rafael França
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rafael França, an esteemed member of the Rails Core team, is our featured guest in this episode. Join us as he delves into his journey with Rails, sh...
015: Exploring Turbo 8 with Jorge Manrubia
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jorge Manrubia provides insights into his experience working at 37signals. Our conversation delves into the intricacies of Active Rec...
014: PostgreSQL for Rails Developers with Andrew Atkinson
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Atkinson, the esteemed author of "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails," joins me in this episode for an in-depth conversation. We delve into ...
013: Rails World Edition - Turbo Native with the Turbo Native Guy, Joe Masilotti
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode was recorded live at Rails World, the ambient crowd noise gives that fact out. Rails World was a huge success! In this episode, I...
012: DHH joins the show to talk Rails 8, Delegated Types, Kamal and more!
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm joined by DHH to discuss Kamal, The Rails Foundation, Rails 8, Delegated Types, On Writing Software Well and a whole lot more! Th...
011: Rails World ticket giveaway. From MRSK to Kamal & capture_emails test helper
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to Buzzsprout one Rubyist can get a free ticket to Rails World in October this year in Amsterdam, follow the link below for details. Change is ...
010: Improved Active Storage docs, a new has_secure_token callback with Dave Kimura
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Kimura of Drifting Ruby fame joins me to discuss the importance of Ruby on Rails documents. We talk specifically about improved documentation aro...
009: A class-level testing helper, config.autoload_lib with Xavier Noria
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The with_routing helper method can now be used at the class level, added to that, the new autoload_lib configuration options mean we can autoload and ...
008: TLS/SSL on by default, New PostgreSQL migration commands
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Newly-generated Ruby on Rails applications will now be served over TLS/SSL with Strict-Transport-Security response headers by default. Rails also adde...
007: Rails 7.0.5 released! Rails World CFP open, ticket landing page available.
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rails 7.0.5 just got released with a lot of bug fixes. This week's episode misses new Rails features... saving them for the next episodes, but I think...
006: Rails 7.1 got rid of the apostrophe for the right single quotation mark!
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rails 7.1 got rid of the apostrophe (U+0027) for the right single quotation mark (U+2019), which will likely break your tests. It added a new `interse...
005: Rails World chat with Amanda Perino. Trilogy, ChatGPT's contribution to Rails.
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Perino reveals more about Rails World, The Rails Foundation's first ever conference happening in Amsterdam, Netherlands this year. Trilogy is a...
004: CTEs In Rails, CPKs coming soon with Vladimir Dementyev
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Dementyev joins the show to discuss Action Cable Redis connection resilience, Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and a new Active Support helper...
003: A new Rails conference! No more ArgumentError for long index names with Greg Molnar
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Greg Molnar, co-editor of This Week In Rails to discuss lots of fun new items. Among them are the Rails Foundation's upcoming conferen...
002: Rails 7.1 Prep For CPKs & Async Records Destruction
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rails 7.1 will add several enhancements to existing functionalities, these include enhancements on destroying records in a background job and preparat...
001: Hello, world! This is The Rails Changelog
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know the motivation behind the podcast and a bit about the podcast name and theme song. An introductory episode of The Rails Changelog. Subscri...