Ruby Rogues

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Sean Fioritto

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Sean Fioritto. Sean is a developer that five years ago quit his job to do his own thing and work on different projects such as Sketching with CSS, Angular Escape Plan training, and consulting. He first got into programming when he had an idea to create things such as rooms and spells in his MOO game. They talk about how he got into professional style programming, how he got into drawing with CSS, why he created the Angular Escape Plan, and more!

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• Sihui intro
• Back-end engineer at Gusto
• Working with Rails and Ruby
• How old is the app?
• How long have you been programming in Ruby?
• Why Ruby?
• Working with Ruby is like talking to a friend
• "How to Contribute to Ruby"
• What is your experience with Mats?
• Try to keep decision making as open as possible
• The three focuses for Ruby 3
• How Ruby is trying to achieve concurrency
• Room for improvement
• Do you see Ruby having a long time future?
• Ruby is not going anywhere
• The philosophy of having a small team
• The assumption that you need a big team to have a big company
• Tooling
• Many core contributors don’t use Ruby themselves
• Enjoying the language
• Type checking
• What benefits come from type checking?
• Compilers to detect errors
• And much, much more!

• "How to Contribute to Ruby"
• Gusto
• Rails
• Ruby
• @sihui_io
• sihui.io
• Sihui’s GitHub

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• Gitcoin Ruby Developer Community
• Cross Stitching

• Human Behavior Biology
• Mini Habit Mastery on Udemy

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Nadia Odunayo

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Nadia Odunayo. Nadia was previously on Ruby Rogues Episode 264 and she used to have her own podcast called Ruby Book Club. She first got into programming because when she was in college she launched a creative writing publication and she was frustrated that she had to keep asking others for help. This was when she started researching coding and how it all worked so that she could put her ideas into action. They talk about Ruby being the first programming language she learned, the importance of learning both the frontend and the backend, her desire to run her own thing, her need to find a company that would support her learning, and more!

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

• Prathamesh intro
• What have you been doing with Rails 5?
• What have you been digging into with testing and features within Rails 5?
• Major changes with testing scenarios
• More focus on end-to-end testing
• Old issues fixed
• Unit testing in Rails
• Refactoring on database cleaning
• CISM tests
• Cypress
• Exploring with Cypress and issues with it
• capybara-webkit
• Hating testing
• Mike Moore talk reference
• Testing across the board integration
• Using JavaScript in the front-end
• End-to-end testing makes more sense in some situations
• What’s your testing approach for Rails 5 applications?
• Functional load tests
• Capybara level tests
• Service object tests
• And much, much more!

• BigBinary
• Ruby
• RubyConf India
• Rails
• Cypress
• capybara-webkit
• Prathamesh’s GitHub
• @_cha1tanya
• @BigBinary

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• Writing code for fun
• Notion.so
• [email protected]

• thehotline.org
• 1 (800) 799-SAFE (7233)

• Boundaries with Kids by Henry Cloud
• RhinoRamps

• RubyConf India
• Sign up to speak at RubyConf India
• Ruby 2.6 Blogs

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Mark Locklear

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Mark Locklear. Mark first got into programming when there wasn’t a lot of opportunities for him to continue to work in quality assurance and he decided he wanted a change of career, so he went to community college to learn programming. They talk about how he was first exposed to Rails, where he is working currently, and what was it about Rails that got him excited. They also touch on what made him want to move from quality assurance, how he mentors his students at the community college, and more!

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

• Jared intro
• Founder of Super Good Software
• Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone
• Solidus and Spree
• Rescue_from Exception
• Injecting special error reporting
• Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions
• Injecting an error reporting tool
• Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception
• Loss of visibility
• Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
• Ruby Rogues Episode 19
• When is capturing exceptions the right way to go?
• Using an exception when something is legitimately broken
• project-honeypot
• When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect
• Having enough information to attack problems when they arise
• Dig method for hashes
• Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard
• Developing code for better exception handling
• Developing with visibility in mind
• And much, much more!

• Ruby
• Super Good Software
• Ruby on Rails
• Solidus
• Spree
• You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone
• Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
• Ruby Rogues Episode 19
• project-honeypot
• Jared’s GitHub
• @SuperGoodJared
• @SuperGoodSoft

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• Home Depot tool rental
• Podcast Movement
• Framework Summit
• [email protected]

• 'Resting bitch face' is real, scientists say – CNN article

• Basin and Range by John McPhee

• Scott’s Cheap Flights

• Configuring a Sentry Server on Ubuntu 16.04 by Dave
• Re-engage

• Living Computers
• fzf
• fzy

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jerome Hardaway

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles speaks with Jerome Hardaway. Jerome used to be a panelist on Ruby Rogues and loved the ability to share his knowledge and interact with so many people from the community. He first got into programming by accident when he couldn’t find a job after becoming a veteran. He saw a commercial about job opportunities in coding, ended up finding a book on SQL and taught himself how to program. They talk about where he ran across Ruby on Rails, what he has worked on that he is particularly proud of, what he is doing currently, and more!

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

• Mindaugas intro
• Is it different to hire in Lithuania?
• It’s not easy to find great developers
• Why is it so hard to find good developers?
• Are there programming boot-camps in Lithuania?
• Having the resources to train new developers
• Hiring a balance between junior and senior developers
• Junior developers VS senior developers
• Fear of hiring junior developers
• A USER GUIDE TO ME blog post
• Why did you write this?
• How to Rands
• Communication
• How do you write up job roles?
• Figuring out what you need
• How they write up job ads differently at Vinted
• Weekly one-on-ones and quarterly reviews
• Allowing people to be who they are and fit openly into the company
• Not forcing people to fit inside a certain “box”
• And much, much more!

• Vinted
• A USER GUIDE TO ME blog post
• How to Rands
• Mindaugas GitHub
• vinted.com/jobs
• @mmozuras
• CodingFearlessly.com

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• Sit down and write code
• Take a minute for yourself

• hackajob.co
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

• Studying to the HILT: Why Learning Should Look More Like Exercise by Jay Lynch
• Outdoors

• Reset by Ellen Pao
• Women Level Up

• Scaling Teams by Alexander Grosse
• vim-anywhere

• David Richards
• Dave Kimura
• Catherine Meyers

• Dan intro
• CTO and Co-Founder of Root
• Tracking driving habits of users to determine rate
• Ruby on Rails
• Architecture of the app
• Back-end platform in Rails
• Mobile as the primary interface
• See the app in the Google Play and iTunes stores
• Current direction for the company
• Identify good architectural boundaries in the code base
• Monoliths
• What is Modular Monolith?
• Why did you decide not to go the microservices route?
• Microservices introduce tradeoffs in your efficiency of making changes
• Not having a too fragmented back-end platform
• Do you have one large schema?
• Maintaining productivity
• Engines
• Separate integration tests
• Integration tests between various components
• Their rating engine
• Deployments
• His article: The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
• Highly recommends their modular monolith
• Everything is in one codebase
• And much, much more!

• The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
• Root
• Ruby on Rails
• Root in the Google Play store
• Root in iTunes
• dan-manges.com
• @dan_manges
• Dan’s Medium
• Dan’s GitHub

• Sentry
• Digital Ocean
• FreshBooks

• The IT Crowd

• Pay attention to how you’re hiring
• Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs

• Breaking Into Startups Podcast

• Postico

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Takashi Kokubun

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Takashi Kokubun. Takashi is a template engine hobbyist, is currently working on the JIT Compiler for Ruby 2.6, and is a Ruby on Rails application engineer at Treasure Data. He first got into programming in his first year at university where he learned C in his first part-time job. They talk about why he decided to work with Ruby, the first thing he built with it, and how you would write a templating system. They also touch on what he is working on now, what his plans are for the future, and more!

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