Ruby Rogues

Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers
• David Richards

Special Guests: Daniel P. ClarkIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Daniel P. Clark about improving Ruby performance with Rust. Daniel has been a hobbyist programmer for over 20 years and started blogging about Ruby and other technical matters about 5 years ago. One of the things he is well known for is his Faster Path gem on GitHub, which has over 700 stars. They talk about his blog article Improving Ruby Performance with Rust, why he chose to use Rust, and the benefits of using a Rust extension in Ruby. They also touch on his faster path gem, the Helix project, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Daniel intro
• Likes to blog - 6ftdan.com
• Released Faster Path gem
• Ruby
• Improving Ruby Performance with Rust blog article
• Why Rust?
• Rust to the rescue (of Ruby) blog article
• Rust was exciting because of the promises it gave
• No garbage collector in Rust
• Why is not having a garbage collector a positive?
• Rust’s ownership model
• Why would use a Rust extension in Ruby?
• Have you played around with sending objects into a Ruby function?
• The story behind creating his Faster path gem
• rubyflow.com
• Turbolinks and Spring and how they react
• Helix project
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Faster Path
• Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
• Rust
• CodeShip
• Rust to the rescue (of Ruby)
• Ruby
• 6ftdan.com
• rubyflow.com
• Turbolinks
• Spring
• Helix
• @6ftdan
• Daniel’s GitHub

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Loot Crate

Picks:Charles

• Logrotate
• charlesmaxwood.com
• devchat.tv/blog
• DevChat.tv YouTube

Dave

• Orange Computers
• Proxmox
• Gitlab

David

• Arrested Development

Eric

• Dead Alewives Club YouTube video

Catherine

• How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast

Daniel

• Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff
• All Your Dev YouTube channel
• LegalShield
• GoSmallBiz

Special Guest: Daniel P. Clark.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers
• David Richards

Special Guests: Victor ShepelevIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Victor Shepelev about functional programming in Ruby. Victor is a Ukrainian programmer and poet who has been programming since he was a child. He has been programming with Ruby for the past 12 years and has contributed a lot to the open source community, as well as mentors and participates in discussions about Ruby’s progress. They talk about how to approach functional programming in Ruby, changes Victor hopes to see in Ruby, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Victor intro
• What is functional programming in terms of Ruby?
• Used to be a computer journalist and historian of programming languages
• Higher-order functions
• Functional style of programming was possible from the beginning in Ruby
• Haskell
• Functional style in any language
• Making the functional style more natural in the future
• His current interests
• Is pattern matching something you would like to see changed?
• What are some changes in Ruby that you would like to see?
• What is pattern-matching?
• Seeing code in a more idiomatic way
• Still a lot of discussions happening
• Immutable objects
• Speeding up Ruby
• The more functional Ruby is becoming, the more room for optimization there is
• Writing at a higher level
• Elixir
• Gentle extension to what is already there
• The “old self”
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ruby
• Haskell
• Elixir
• Victor’s GitHub
• @zverok
• zverok.github.io

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

Picks:Charles

• Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson

Dave

• Gila Tint for Garage Door Windows

David

• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Eric

• Ellington gem

Catherine

• Ruby versus the Titans of FP by Cassandra Cruz – RubyConf 2016 Talk
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Victor

• Victor’s GitHub
• Reality

Special Guest: Victor Shepelev.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards

Special Guests: Paweł DąbrowskiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Paweł Dąbrowski about metaprogramming and DSLs. Paweł is a Ruby developer, is on the iRonin team, and runs a Ruby blog, which he started in January 2018. They talk about his blog, the importance of contributing to the community, and why he chose to create his own version of RSpec. They also touch on how hard it was to get into blog writing as a developer, the use of blog writing as a way to confirm your skills, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Paweł intro
• Build your own RSpec blog post
• Wanted to dive in and share his thoughts on the topic
• The importance of branding yourself
• He wants to be able to share his skills to others
• What prompted you to want to write a blog?
• Importance of contributing to the Ruby community
• Developer therapy
• Write a blog post and then make it into a script
• Do you find yourself going back to your blog posts in the future?
• Why did you decide to create your own version of RSpec?
• How far did you get into creating your own RSpec before it got really difficult?
• Remind yourself it’s just Ruby code
• Did you use TDD?
• Do you think about the application code differently now?
• Writing application code is easier for him now
• How hard was it to get into blog writing?
• The fear of the opinions of others
• Blog writing has changed the way he looks at code
• Blog writing as a way to confirm your skills
• His inspiration for the blog posts
• And much, much more!

Links:

• DevChat.tv
• Ruby
• iRonin
• Paweł’s Ruby blog
• Build your own RSpec blog post
• RSpec
• Paweł’s GitHub 
• Views on Vue Podcast
• VoV Episode 3: Nuxt.js Podcast
• @pdabrowski_k1

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

Picks:Charles

• Audible
• The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
• The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Dave

• Retractable Hose Reel
• 20V Power Trimmer

David

• Making Learning Whole by David Perkins
• Soft Skills by John Sonmez

Eric

• Nuxt.js

Paweł

• Chartable
• Soft Skills by John Sonmez

Special Guest: Paweł Dąbrowski.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards

Special Guests: Nathan KontnyIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Nathan Kontny about his video Should I use Ruby on Rails? Nathan has been a Rails developer since about 2005 when he created a startup and has since been making software and starting business. He has just recently been running the CRM Highrise and is now onto more projects elsewhere. They talk about his prior experiences as a software developer, why he chose to use Rails when creating software, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Nathan intro
• Should I use Ruby on Rails? Video
• Engineer for Obama’s re-election campaign
• Created Draft
• Inkling using Rails
• Worked ad Y Combinator
• Chose Rails to create startups
• Lives are better when people feel like they’re being heard
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Why did you use Rails over something like Django?
• Looking into discussion boards and the libraries already created
• What made you think it would stay the hottest?
• Hosting was awful
• Using the hype of Rails to get good press for his startup
• When did you first feel confident in your decision to use Rails?
• Rackspace 
• Do you still use Rails or have you switched to something like Node?
• Still confident in his decision and loves it as a platform
• Using Rails for what it’s good for
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Rails
• Should I use Ruby on Rails?
• Highrise
• Y Combinator
• Draft
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Django
• Rackspace 
• Node
• @natekontny
• Nathan’s Medium
• Nathan’s YouTube
• Nathan’s GitHub
• [email protected]

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

Picks:Charles

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Life Promises for Leaders by Zig Ziglar
• Spend time with the people you care about

Dave

• Nest Hello
• Okyere and Acheampong House Fire GoFundMe

David

• The Right Stuff

Eric

• ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
• Amazon Echo Spot

Nathan

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
• Something Really New by Denis J. Hauptly
• Bluetooth Air Filter

Special Guest: Nathan Kontny.

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Panel: 

• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• David Richards
• Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Olivier LacanIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Olivier Lacan about his blog post Why Won’t Bundle Update? and related topics. Olivier was originally a designer/web developer who fell into Ruby around 2010 and has been working on Code School, which is sadly in the process of being shut down. They talk about what package managers are, where you would you see them normally in code, dependencies, gems, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Olivier intro
• Sass and Haml
• Code School
• Why they are shutting down Code School
• Transferring expertise to PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App
• What is a package manager?
• Where would you see a package manager?
• Reusable code
• More structured and sustainable process
• Conversations that helps the community mature
• Ruby Gems
• What’s acceptable across communities
• Dependencies
• Having collaborative conversations
• Yarn
• Transitive dependencies
• Authentication
• Dependencies as degrees of liability
• Taking on risk
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ruby
• Code School
• Sass
• Haml
• PluralSight
• The Life and Death of a Rails App Talk
• Ruby Gems
• Why Won’t Bundle Update?
• Rails
• JavaScript
• Yarn
• @olivierlacan
• OlivierLacan.com
• Human Errors Talk
• KeepAChangeLog.com
• Olivier’s GitHub

Sponsors

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• Loot Crate

Picks:Dave

• Cobra Kai
• Oculus Go

David

• GitHub Checks

Eric

• StickerMule
• The Handmaid’s Tale

Catherine

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Dear White People

Oliver

• Rising Strong by Brené Brown
• What is Health Justice? by Tim Faust

Special Guest: Olivier Lacan.

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Panel: 

• Dave Kimura
• Eric Berry
• Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Dean NasseriIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Dean Nasseri about Fir. Fir is the friendly interactive Ruby REPL that Dean created when he was inspired by the REPL Fish. Dean is a software engineer at VTS, which is a commercial real estate software platform that uses Ruby on Rails. They talk about why he created Fir, how he approached creating it, how long it took him to build, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Dean intro
• What is Fir?
• Inspired by Fish REPL
• Interactive approach
• Does that work with multi-lines?
• Quick lookup
• What’s your favorite way to use Fir?
• Use REPLs for everything
• Pry
• Pry vs Fir
• How did you approach creating a REPL?
• Looked at Pry a lot hen creating Fir
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
• Do you have a lot of users of it?
• Wants to direct people to Fish
• Why would someone switch to Fish?
• Oh My ZSH
• Auto suggestions are killer
• How much time did this take you to build?
• What kind of terminal do you use?
• Hyper
• Mert
• And much, much more!

Links:

• VTS
• Fir
• Ruby on Rails
• Fish
• Pry
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
• Oh My ZSH
• Hyper
• Mert
• nasseri.io
• @DeanNasseri

Picks:Dave

• Doorknob Covers
• Marvel Strike Force

Eric

• Mert
• Utah Hospitals
• Chuck

Catherine

• Codeland Conf
• RubyHack

Dean

• Red Blob Games

Special Guest: Dean Nasseri.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• David Richards
• Dave Kimura
• Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Noah GibbsIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Noah Gibbs about measuring Ruby performance with Rails and Discourse. Noah wrote a book called Rebuilding Rails and is currently analyzing Ruby performance for AppFolio. They talk about how he puts benchmarks around Discourse, the 2 distinct audiences that come to Rails, and how Rails is constantly improving. They also touch on his life as a programmer leading up to being a Ruby fellow and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Catherine intro
• Noah intro
• Engineering.appfolio.com
• Ruby Weekly
• Do you find that your benchmark is applicable worldwide?
• Rails is going to continue to rise and fall
• Ruby code goes up and down with Rails in the US
• Hanami
• How do you put benchmarks around Discourse?
• Messy and requires a lot of tooling
• Always a balance in a benchmark
• The “real world” is messy
• 2 distinct audiences for Rails
• Rails is transitioning over time
• Nothing has ever come close to Rails
• Technology revolves around what’s hot
• Recent shift in technology
• Server-less technology
• The life of a Ruby fellow
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ruby
• Rails
• Discourse
• Rebuilding Rails
• AppFolio
• Engineering.appfolio.com
• Ruby Weekly
• Hanami
• @codefolio
• Noah’s GitHub

Picks:Charles

• Hogwarts Battles
• DevChat.tv YouTube

Dave

• Marvel Strike Force
• GitLab

David

• Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

Catherine

• Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis
• Http Cat

Noah

• Wacom Tablet
• Draw with Jazza
• The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming by Jessica Kerr

Special Guest: Noah Gibbs.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• David Richards
• Dave Kimura

Special Guests: Luca GuidiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Luca Guidi about Ruby elapsed time. Luca works remotely for DNSimple and is most well known in the Ruby community for his open source projects, such as Hanami. They talk about NTP, time drifts, and the pros and cons to using a monoatomic clock. They also touch on the importance of being exposed to different languages in order to be a well-rounded developer.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Luca intro
• His elapsed time blog post
• Why he wrote the blog post
• What is NTP?
• NTP = Network Time Protocol
• The importance of keeping your computer time in sync with an external NTP server
• Time drifts
• World clock and monatomic clock
• The blindness around time
• Building a system around time
• Working on time and attendance
• The things you don’t think about are what you take for granted
• RailsConf
• How did you come about finding this conclusion?
• Go Computer Language
• Being exposed to different languages
• Ruby is flexible and high-level
• The dangers of coming to Ruby as their first language
• Rails
• And much, much more!

Links:

• DevChat.tv YouTube
• DNSimple
• Ruby
• Hanami
• Elapsed Time Blog Post
• RailsConf
• Go Language
• Rails
• LucaGuidi.com
• Luca’s GitHub
• @jodosha

Picks:Charles

• Zoom H6
• Facebook Marketplace

Dave

• Marvel Strike Force
• Hondata
• Mockaroo

David

• Trifacta

Luca

• Tasty
• Daily Stoic by Yyan Holiday
• Digitakt

Special Guest: Luca Guidi.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• David Richards

Special Guests: Aslak HellesøyIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Aslak Hellesøy about Cucumber. Aslak has been a software developer since around 1997 and has been in the Ruby community since around 2003. He created Cucumber in 2008, which has been his hobby on the side since its creation. They talk about the difference between TDD and BDD, what Cucumber is, and how it works. They also stress the importance of having conversations in order to facilitate collaboration and trust.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Aslak intro
• What is the difference between TDD and BDD?
• Selenium and Cypress
• Capybara 
• With BDD, you lose your fast feedback loop and your flow
• People accept slow feedback loops
• The test pyramid
• Most tests should be uni-tests
• Why is it that full-stack tests are slow?
• io makes full-stack tests slow
• What is Cucumber?
• A tool that supports behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Having conversations around concrete examples
• Visualization
• Cucumber used to express examples
• Allows people to design the tests for the BDD flavor of TDD to develop a software
• Example mapping
• The importance of having the conversations
• Facilitating collaboration and trust
• Having face-to-face conversations
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ruby
• Cucumber
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Capybara
• Cucumber’s Slack
• @aslak_hellesoy
• Aslak’s GitHub

Picks:Charles

• Udemy course on Blockchain and Ethereum
• Creating a blockchain with JavaScript YouTube videos

David

• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman

Aslak

• BDD and Cucumber Training in June
• Cucumber Electron

Special Guest: Aslak Hellesøy.

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Panel: 

• Charles Max Wood
• Brian Hogan
• Eric Berry
• Dave Kimura
• David Richards

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talk about their thoughts, gripe about things they don’t like, and discuss some new ideas. Some of the things they discuss include having a frozen version of your code, node modules, code dependencies, and more. They also touch on the fact that making shortcuts now means that you will have to pay for it later.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Having a frozen version of your code is a good idea
• Dependency problems
• Ruby gems
• Gem in a Box
• Rubygems.org
• Node modules
• npm install
• Do you have to manually add all the gems to the gem in a box?
• You don’t ever save time, you just shift time
• Do the hard work up front that you can
• Stages of a system
• Rails, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Hello World
• The future of building more complex languages and frameworks
• Trial and error
• Sometimes sad when writing code
• There isn’t a lot of empathy in the programming world
• Fullstack developer image
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Rubygems.org
• npm install
• Gem in a Box
• Rails 
• Ruby
• JavaScript 
• Fullstack developer image

Picks:Charles

• NG Conf
• DevChat.tv/YouTube
• RubyHack
• MicroConf
• Microsoft Build
• New Show Ideas

Brian

• Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix by Lance Halvorsen
• Chunkwm GitHub
• Chunkwm Tutorial

Eric

• Crabby Bill’s
• Bob’s Burgers

David

• What should a FAQ for a software company contain? by David Richards
• George Saunders: what writers really do when they write

Dave

• Rails 5.2
• GDPRv

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