Ruby Rogues

Adam Gordon Bell is back on the show again!  Today he shares his views on language tooling, new articles he has recently written, documentation for Ruby, software consulting, and insights into other programming topics.
In this episode…

• What is language tooling?
• How can tooling be improved?
• Code linting
• Documentations for Ruby
• An unfixable programming language
• Staff vs line engineers
• Software consulting 
• Why open source?

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
• Green Vs. Brown Programming Languages
• The History and Mystery Of Eliza With Jeff Shrager - CoRecursive Podcast 
• The Slow March Of Progress in Program Language Tooling 
• earthly.dev
• Twitter: @adamgordonbell

Picks

• Adam- Peloton® | The Peloton Tread, Everything You Need For a Total Body Workout
• Luke- Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
• Luke- The History and Mystery Of Eliza - CoRecursive Podcast

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Wearable technology, Web 3.0, augmented reality, and other emerging technologies are poised for shifting the future for DevOps.  Today on the show, the panel discusses how the future of Ruby can adapt to make these changes a reality.

In this episode…

• Wearable tech
• Virtual reality
• Web 3.0 
• Blockchains
• Non-fungible tokens
• React native
• Dragon ruby and rails
• The future for Ruby

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Picks

• Charles- Antidote
• Charles- - Top End Devs
• Charles- Ready Player One: A Novel
• Dave- Black Shark RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard LED Backlit Wired Keyboard with Blue Switches, Fully Programmable, Anti-Ghosting 104 Keys for Desktop PC, Sixgill K2
• Dave- Beat the Parents
• John- Ruby Weekly
• John- Salsas | Herdez
• Luke- RailsConf 2022 - The pitfalls of realtime-ification by Vladimir Dementyev
• Luke- Agile Web Development with Rails 7

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Today on the show, Máximo Mussini shares how your front-end framework can benefit from integrating rails models and routes concurrently.  Topics they discuss today include everything from complex structures with serializers to generating JS from rails routes.

In this episode…

• Advantages of serializers 
• Contact serializers
• Parse float and typescripts
• Complex structures with serializers
• Path helpers in JS
• Generating JS from rails routes
• Typed interface files configurations
• Types and Ruby

Sponsors

• Avo
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Top End Devs

Links

• Generating TypeScript interfaces from Ruby serializers 2
• Generating JS functions to make request from Rails routes 2
• GitHub: ElMassimo
• Twitter: @MaximoMussini

Picks

• Charles- Orbis
• Charles – Top End Devs Meetups
• Charles – Rails Remote Conference
• John- Simple Task Management Software for Businesses of All Sizes
• John- VALORANT: Riot Games' competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooter
• Luke- Introduction
• Luke- Decameron | work by Boccaccio
• Máximo- Recording Your Terminal to SVG | platformOS Docs
• Máximo- Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith
• Valentino- Co-ops: On Sparking Innovation at Doximity
• Valentino- Ruby Evolution
• Valentino- why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia

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Imagine a tool that lets you write templates that can generate code, but also parse that code back into the initial variables.  Depending on how flexible your templates are, it can even parse code that has been modified by hand after generation.  Today on the show, the panel interviews Lucas Luitjes, creator of Monocle, the tool that allows for this kind of integration.

In this episode…

1. What is bidirectional code generation
2. Visual rails editor prototype
3. How does the program work, step by step
4. Parsing results from snippets
5. Multi-node placeholders
6. Utilizing the erb2builder library
7. Ruby security features

Connect with Lucas via email:  [email protected]

Sponsors

• Avo
• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Lucas Luitjes
• Luitjes IT | Monocle: bidirectional code generation
• Twitter: lucasluitjes

Picks

• Charles- Just One | Board Game - BoardGameGeek
• Charles- 1883 (TV Series 2021–2022) - IMDb
• Charles- Top End Devs Conferences

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Vendor lock-in refers to a situation whereby the cost of switching to a different vendor or platform is so high that you are essentially stuck with the original platform.  Today on the show, Charles and Dave share personal stories of how they were forced to continue using a specific platform and what they did to rectify the various scenarios, plus they provide their insights on workaround strategies and how to prevent this from happening in the first place.
In this episode…

• Designing your API to be more agnostic to the vendor
• Changing environment variables
• Creating a rails applications with variables in mind
• How to avoid doing things manually vs. the risk of staying with the current platform
• Using rails credentials that can be shared for all connections within an infrastructure
• The risks of putting all your eggs in one software application basket 

Sponsors

• Avo
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Top End Devs

Picks

• Charles- Dice Forge
• Charles- - Top End Devs
• Charles- 1883 - Yellowstone Prequel (Official Site) Watch on Paramount+
• Dave - Hair weaving and spending time with family

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How do you manage your actual rails environment configurations?  When you create a new rails application, do you utilize the provided development, test, and production environments, or deviate?  Today on the show, Dave and Valentino share their best practices on how they manage their environment variables and workflows within their rails environments.

In this episode…

• Staging environments
• QA environments
• Replicating data and sampling strategies
• Local environment testing
• Creating Ruby objects
• Internal API and servers vs. cloud data apps

Sponsors

• Avo
• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Picks

• Dave- RESCUE Outdoor Reusable Fly Trap FTR-SF4
• Dave- Glide Gear TMP 100 - Shoot Smartphone/ DSLR Camera to Prompt Tablet/ Smartphone Teleprompter
• Valentino- rubyatscale
• Valentino- Cloudflare's wall of lava lamps used to generate randomness for cryptographic key generation 

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Today on the show, Charles shares about his current projects and inner workings related to managing files and text on his various podcast portals.  The panel discusses their history with legacy platforms, their personal tool preferences, and the pros and cons of ActiveStorage and ActionText.

In this episode…

1. Paperclip, Attachment_Fu, CarrierWave, ConfiguringFog and other legacy tools
2. FTP for file storage
3. CDN support and preferences
4. Digital ocean servers
5. Trix compared to other rich text editors

Sponsors

• Avo
• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Top End Devs

Links

• Add markdown support or state that it will not be added · Issue #626 · basecamp/trix
• Active Storage Overview - Ruby on Rails Guides

Picks

• Charles- Marvel Legendary Dark City Board Game
• Charles- Vistaprint US Online Printing: Business Cards, Signage & More
• John- Glen Scotia 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky : The Whisky Exchange
• John- Drag and Drop File Uploads with Dropzone and StimulusReflex
• Valentino- Creating Excellent Developer User Experiences with Github Actions
• Valentino- Useful utilities and toys over DNS
• Valentino- doitlive - doitlive 4.2.1 documentation

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Today Charles talks with Adrian Marin, a developer and founder of Avo, a Ruby on Rails admin framework.  Coming with 10 years of developer experience, we discuss how Avo sets itself apart from other typical systems by allowing you to step out of the limitations of DSL and write custom code to meet the needs of each customer.  We discuss the three main parts of this fully tested framework, and talk about how you can kick the tires before diving in.  With such a wide range of companies successfully utilizing Avo, it’s something definitely worth checking out!

Links

• Avo Admin for Rails
• Join the Avo Discord Server!
• GitHub - avo-hq/avo: Configuration-based, no-maintenance, extendable Ruby on Rails admin
• Twitter: @avo_hq
• GitHub: adrianthedev
• ADRIAN MARIN

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Wouldn't it be great if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default?  Lazy loading is extremely helpful when the list of associations to load is determined dynamically.  Today on the show, Charles and Luke interview Evgeniy Demin, Principal Engineer at Toptal.  They discuss how you can speed up your processes by lazy loading your N+1 queries, plus various tools to optimize your workflows.

In this episode…

1. N+1 queries and cases
2. ActiveRecord methodology
3. Developing new features quickly
4. Various tools and ideas
5. The fulfill method
6. Alternative stacks
7. Ruby Tik-Tok

Sponsors

• Avo
• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• LinkedIn: Evgeniy Demin
• GitHub - djezzzl/n1_loader: Loader to solve N+1 issues for good. Highly recommended for GraphQL API.
• GitHub - DmitryTsepelev/ar_lazy_preload: Lazy loading associations for the ActiveRecord models
• GitHub - salsify/goldiloader: Just the right amount of Rails eager loading
• N+1 problem will never be an issue with N1Loader gem
• Enhanced ActiveRecord preloading

Picks

• Charles- PODFEST EXPO | Where Your Voice Matters
• Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Guardians of the Galaxy
• Charles- Vistaprint US Online Printing: Business Cards, Signage & More
• Charles- Products
• Charles - Winco Foods
• Evgeniy - Toptal
• Evgeniy - Telltale Games
• Luke- Watch The Lincoln Lawyer | Netflix Official Site

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In recent years, researchers have explored component-based synthesis, which aims to automatically construct programs that operate by composing calls to existing APIs.  However, prior work has not considered efficient synthesis of methods with side effects that update a database.  Today on the show, Sankha Guria shares about his research in this area, introducing a new approach to type and effect-guided synthesis tools for Ruby.

In this episode…

1. What is program synthesis?
2. Lambda functions
3. Generating in Ruby
4. Assistive code generation
5. Benchmarking your code
6. Various tools
7. Co-pilot vs. pilot 
8. Scratch software for kids
9. Applying program synthesis to web assemblies
10. How to use program synthesis to generates tests

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
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• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• UMD Department of Computer Science
• RbSyn: Type- and Effect-Guided Program Synthesis
• GitHub - ngsankha/rbsyn: Program synthesis for Ruby
• ruby-rogues.md · GitHub 
• Rosette: About
• Twitter: @ngsankha
• Sankha Narayan Guria

Picks

• Luke- A better zip bomb
• Luke- Shawn Hymel – Tiny ML
• Sankha- Scythe
• Valentino - Stripe

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