Kyle and Sean talk about Sean's experience this week moving an application out of development and into production.

Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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Squarespace: A better web starts with your website.

This week I chat with Mike Perham who is the creator, owner, and operator of Sidekiq. We talk about running a successful open source project, how to make some money and keep your sanity, and a little bit about the future with Crystal. Also, have you heard about Pokemon Go?

We'll catch up on GraphQL Summit and talk about being a solo co-host.

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Sean and Kyle are stressed! In this episode, they talk through how they got there and try to come up with an inner peace game plan.

Squarespace: A better web starts with your website.

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Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.

Links for this episode:

• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Edouard Chin on Github
  
• Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations
  
• Shopify's Deprecation Toolkit
  
• Shopify's Bootboot
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Now that Rails 5.2 is production ready, Britt gives Kyle a tour of Rails 5.2 and all it's coolest, newest, hippest, frameworkiest new features.

Sean and Kyle are back to talk about Sean's Little Professor replica in Ember, plus the debut of Shipped It!, a new segment about managing applications that have already been shipped. There's also a bit of time at the end for a good mailbag question.

Presented in partnership with AppSignal.

Links for this episode:

• Recreating Little Professor in Ember
  
• Little Professor Replica
  
• github.com/barelyknown/little-professor
  
• github.com/github/scientist
  
• github.com/technoweenie/serialized_attributes
  

Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core.

Links for this episode:

• Galvanize
  
• MojoTech
  
• PR to Introduce Support for ActionView::Component
  
• Natasha Umer on Github (@natashau)
  
• joelhawksley/actionview-component-demo
  
• Trailblazer Gem
  
• dry-view Gem
  
• komponent Gem
  
• Introducing Project Paper Cuts
  
• Joel Hawksley's Blog
  
• Joel Hawksley on Github (@joelhawksley)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Sean and Kyle talk about the economics of open source software.

Squarespace: A better web starts with your website.

AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast.

Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Kyle and Sean talk about Kyle's trip to Dean Kamen's house/hanger and preview Rails 5. Plus, a new Shipped It! episode about Kyle's ongoing quest to removed a complicated serialized attribute.

Shipped It! is an ongoing series about what it takes to manage an application after it's let loose in the wild. The series is produced in partnership with AppSignal, our favorite application monitoring solution. Use the promo code SHIPPEDIT and you'll receive an additional month free (beyond the standard free month) from AppSignal.

Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

This week, Kyle chats with Wynn Netherland from Librato about his REST API history, what building APIs with Rails and Ruby is like these days, and what he thinks about GraphQL in its quest to be the new Platform.

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Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.

Links for this episode:

• SQL Server Row Level Security
  
• SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
  
• SQL PASS local and virtual groups
  
• Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
  
• SQL Saturdays
  
• Brent Ozar's Site
  
• Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
  
• Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
  
• RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
  
• Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint.

Links for this episode:

• RSpec
  
• Minitest
  
• Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
  
• XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
  
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
  
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
  
• Jason Swett's Blog
  
• RubyConf India
  
• The Ruby Testing Podcast | Brittany Guests
  
• Episode Music: "Cinematic" by Purple Planet Music
  

Coming back from hiatus, let's catch-up with Rails 5.1 & 5.2, the best parts of Rails in 2017, and the newest Javascript framework release of Stimulus.

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Following up on Episode #214, Sean talks about his decision to follow no advice and go his own way by extracting a service from one of his projects. Hubris? Let's find out together.

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Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.

Links for this episode:

• Episode 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine
  
• Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm based in Boston. He joined Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn, key interview tips and if the fabled fullstack developer is still relevant.

Links for this episode:

• Ruby on Rails and Mobile Recruiters at Mirror
  
• History of Dev Bootcamp
  
• Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)
  
• Brian Mariani on LinkedIn
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Datadog

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See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

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Recorded in the morning, with spunk.

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Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards.

Links for this episode:

• Nick Schwaderer - OceansHQ - Future Sync 2019
  
• ITP 2.1 And Web Analytics
  
• Past Rubies #1: Ruby Celebrity Free-For-All
  
• Pull Panda is joining GitHub!
  
• Jumping to the definition of a function or method on Github
  
• ErgoDox EZ Keyboard
  
• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
  
• Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)
  
• Brittany Martin's Site
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

• Speedshop - Ruby on Rails performance consulting
  
• Speedshop Blog
  
• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
  
• Tune
  
• Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf (Minneapolis)
  
• Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter
  
• Nate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)
  

Logan McDonald joins Britt to discuss upgrading Kickstarter's main applications to Rails 5. They discuss the steps they took and lessons learned from the upgrade. If you're still riding Rails 4, this episode is definitely for you.

DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus.

Links for this episode:

• RubyConf 2019 - How to Become an Encoding Champion by Deedee Lavinder
  
• ASCII | Wikipedia
  
• Endianness | Wikipedia
  
• DeeDee Lavinder (@ddlavinder) | Twitter
  
• Raleigh/Durham | Women Who Code
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Joe Leo is the CEO of Def Method, an agile Ruby software consultancy, and the co-author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition. He and Brittany discussed functional programming in Ruby and their thoughts on the Ruby community after Rubyconf 2019.

Links for this episode:

• Def Method
  
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition
  
• The Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 Slides
  
• Partial Function Application | Joe Leo on Ruby Tapas
  
• Joe Leo III (@jleo3) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at brian@mirrorplacement.com. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Brittany is live from Rubyconf 2019! Noah Gibbs is a Ruby Fellow for AppFolio, working on the core Ruby language and related tooling. After over 30 years of communicating with computers, Noah now believes that communicating with humans may not be a passing fad, and he's trying it out.

Links for this episode:

• Noah Gibb's Blog
  
• Ruby Weekly
  
• Ruby 3x3
  
• Ivy Coding Study
  
• Conscious Coding Practice: The Three Concrete Steps Slides
  
• Noah's Book: Mastering Software Technique: Conscious Practice for Writing Software
  
• Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds
  
• An explanation of fibers and autofibers from Samuel Williams
  
• Noah Gibbs (@codefolio) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at brian@mirrorplacement.com. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Bindiya Mansharamani, Director of Engineering, & Andrew Derenge, Principal Engineer at RigUp joined Brittany to discuss RigUp's GraphQL design choices, engineering culture and the career path to achieve senior and director level.

Links for this episode:

• RigUp
  
• Careers @ RigUp
  
• Bindiya on LinkedIn
  
• Andrew on LinkedIn
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Brought to you by:

Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at brian@mirrorplacement.com. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Ali Spittel loves teaching people to code. She blogs a lot about code and her life as a developer. Brittany and Ali discuss the lessons behind Ali's blog post, "The Career Advice I Wish I Had".

Links for this episode:

• General Assembly
  
• Ladybug Podcast
  
• Ladybug Podcast | All About Technical Portfolios
  
• The Career Advice I Wish I Had · We Learn Code
  
• Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers - Thoughtbot
  
• Ali's Blog
  
• Ali's Newsletter
  
• Ali Spittel on Twitter(@ASpittel)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Kensington

Kensington's Universal Docking Stations give you access to more ports so your slim Chromebook can be as powerful as a Desktop. With plug and play functionality without having to install drivers, you will enjoy dual 4K display with HDMI and displaylink video connectors. Interested? Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program. Visit kensington.com/ruby to learn more!

Gannon McGibbon is a Software Developer at Shopify. He primarily works on improving codebase health of Shopify's monolithic Rails app. Gannon regularly contributes to open source with commits on Rails, Ruby, and Rubocop. He joined Brittany to discuss his latest blog post, "How to Write Fast Ruby on Rails code".

Links for this episode:

• Rails Contributors | #59 Gannon McGibbon - All time
  
• How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails by Gannon McGibbon
  
• Gannon on Github (@gmcgibbon)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

[Repost from the Bikeshed] On this week's episode, Steph Viccari is joined by Brittany. They discuss Brittany's passion for roller derby and her upcoming Ruby conference talk: "Hire Me, I'm Excellent at Quitting." They also discuss using AWS Serverless, troubleshooting Postgress connection errors and working with Google Pay and Apple Wallet to introduce digital tickets.

Links for this episode:

• The Bikeshed Podcast
  
• RubyConf 2019 - Hire Me: I'm Excellent at Quitting
  
• Bikeshedding with Steph Viccari
  
• TN Inspire! "Ramping Up With Roller Derby"
  
• Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
  
• RubyConf MY - Rails Against the Machine
  
• Amazon Aurora Serverless
  
• Nate Berkopec - Speed Shop
  
• @SViccari - Steph on Twitter
  
• @BrittJMartin - Brittany on Twitter
  
• Edited by Thom Obarski (thoughtbot)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Brittany and Nick catch up on happenings in their worlds. Nick started a new gig and Brittany was accepted into Rubyconf as a speaker. Predictably, after discussing upgrading to Rails 6 and releasing new gems, the conversation focused on keyboards.

Links for this episode:

• Hero Health
  
• Rubyconf 2019
  
• Introducing my Schwad Performance Logger gem
  
• Schwad/schwad_performance_logger
  
• DROP DSA ASTROLOKEYS KEYCAPS BY SAILORHG & CASSIDOO
  
• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
  
• Brittany Martin on Twitter (@brittjmartin)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Kensington's Universal Docking Stations give you access to more ports so your slim Chromebook can be as powerful as a Desktop. With plug and play functionality without having to install drivers, you will enjoy dual 4K display with HDMI and displaylink video connectors. Interested? Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program. Visit kensington.com/ruby to learn more!

Polly Schandorf is a Ruby community advocate, a newly minted extreme programmer and an organizer for Ruby for Good. She is also one of the organizers of WeCamp - a code retreat and unconference in the woods in the suburbs of DC. Help Ruby for Good do the good they are trying to do!

Links for this episode:

• Ruby for Good - Making the world gooder
  
• WeCamp 2019
  
• Extreme Programming
  
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  
• Ruby for Good on Github
  
• DiaperBase
  
• Polly Schandorf on Twitter (@n3rdyteacher)
  
• Ruby for Good on Twitter (@rubyforgood)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

John Nunemaker, creator and maintainer of HTTParty and Flipper, regaled Brittany with tales of why he loves Ruby & Rails, his change of mindset on being an open source maintainer and how a post-install hook can inspire even the most grumpy of developers.

Links for this episode:

• Box Out Sports - The Best Sports Graphics Solution
  
• Fewer and Faster - Measure, Improve and Repeat
  
• Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
  
• jnunemaker/httparty: Makes http fun again!
  
• jnunemaker/flipper: feature flipping for ruby
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Brought to you by:

Hoefler&Co

A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Brittany is delighted to have Dan Benjamin, podcaster, writer, software developer, and old school Rails aficionado on the show. He is the founder of the 5by5 Podcast Network and Fireside, a podcast hosting and analytics platform.

Links for this episode:

• A List Apart – For people who make websites
  
• 5by5 - Broadcasts for Geeks, Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs.
  
• Fireside - podcast hosting and analytics by podcasters, for podcasters
  
• Dan Benjamin on Twitter (@danbenjamin)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Brought to you by:

Hoefler&Co

A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.

See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm based in Boston. He joined Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn, key interview tips and if the fabled fullstack developer is still relevant.

Links for this episode:

• Ruby on Rails and Mobile Recruiters at Mirror
  
• History of Dev Bootcamp
  
• Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)
  
• Brian Mariani on LinkedIn
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Brought to you by:

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.

See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

Print Peppermint

Print Peppermint offers beautiful letterpress business cards with free custom design service. With a 100% Money-Back Guarantee, visit www.printpeppermint.com and enter the code: "railabiglineofcode" at checkout for 10% off your order!

Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.

Links for this episode:

• SQL Server Row Level Security
  
• SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
  
• SQL PASS local and virtual groups
  
• Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
  
• SQL Saturdays
  
• Brent Ozar's Site
  
• Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
  
• Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
  
• RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
  
• Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Brought to you by:

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.

See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

Steph Viccari, co-host of the Bikeshed and developer at thoughtbot, shared her insights on developer bootcamps, starting out as a developer, the state of Rails, podcasting and her first experience as a consultant.

Links for this episode:

• thoughtbot
  
• Bloc
  
• Launch Academy
  
• Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes — Ruby on Rails Guides
  
• The Bike Shed Podcast
  
• Society of Grownups | Financial Wellness Courses & Tools
  
• Steph Viccari on Twitter (@sviccari)
  
• The Bike Shed on Twitter (@_bikeshed)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Over two years and 978 commits, Christine Zagrobelny recounts the evolution of an open source RoR project built with and for New Sanctuary Coalition, an NYC immigrant rights organization, to help them meet exponentially growing demand for their services following the 2016 U.S. election. This podcast was recorded live with Brittany at Abstractions II.

Links for this episode:

• New Sanctuary Coalition - NYC
  
• devise on Github
  
• filterrific on Github
  
• simple_calendar on Github
  
• new_sanctuary_asylum on Github
  
• New Sanctuary Coalition (@NewSanctuaryNYC) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.

Links for this episode:

• Kill All Mutants Abstractions Slides
  
• Mutation Testing
  
• Codosaurus, LLC
  
• Mutant Gem on Github
  
• Mutest on Github
  
• Heckle on Github
  
• Dave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2.

Links for this episode:

• Scott Hanselman Coder, Blogger, Teacher, Speaker, Author
  
• Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
  
• Install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
  
• First Timers Only
  
• Scott on Twitter (@shanselman)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

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Hoefler&Co

A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.

Links for this episode:

• Episode 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine
  
• Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and why Turbolinks can be awesome!

Links for this episode:

• Past Rubies
  
• About Google Pay API for Passes
  
• How We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking Javascript
  
• Remote Ruby Podcast
  
• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
  
• Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)
  
• Brittany Martin's Site
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.

Links for this episode:

• Event-driven architecture
  
• Confreaks TV | Events
  
• Cover's Blog
  
• Cover on Twitter (@cover)
  
• Cover on Facebook
  
• Careers @ Cover
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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