the Tightly Coupled Book Club

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read Action View Overview and discuss templating systems, the difference between Action and Active, and internationalization as a bonus view template feature.Reading for this episode: Action View Overview https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.htmlEileen's Railsconf 2023 Keynote: https://youtu.be/TgNb2_LSMMo?si=ymjnJ7DOvZQDp6vbTailwind and the Femininity of CSS: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-cssHotwiring My React Brain at RailsConf 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37Q3xy3pUoLet’s Standardize Rails at Railsconf 2023: https://youtu.be/cj9NO1xI4b4?si=NRVm-UbXkxvGmzUBReading for episode 13: Layouts and Rendering in Rails https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

For this week's episode, Aji and Guest Host Sally Hall discussed Active model, form objects and presenters, APIs as database, and Rails inflectors and translation.

• Reading for this episode: Active Model Basics

Aji & guest host Mercedes Bernard talk ORMs & SQL, left outer joins & includes, and strict & eager loading.

• Reading for this episode: Active Record Query Interface
• The Bike Shed episode 358: The Class Method
• Reading for next episode: Active Model Basics

Find Mercedes online at mercedesbernard.com, on mastodon: [email protected], or LinkedIn

Aji welcomes guest host and fellow thoughtbotter Dimiter Petrov. Their conversation covers association scope, the thoughtful layout of this section of the guides, polymorphic associations, and association extensions.

• Reading for this episode: Active Record Associations

• Helvetic Ruby: Ruby conference in Bern, Switzerland, November 24, 2023

• Reading for next episode: Active Record Query Interface

For this week's episode, Aji welcomes our very first Guest Host, Sasha Grodzins! Aji & Sasha read about Active Record Callbacks and discuss pitfalls of callbacks, how they are similar to validations, and comments and commit messages as documentation.

• Reading for this episode: Active Record Callbacks

• 5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at Gusto

• Ruby Science's chapter on callbacks

• Active Record callbacks source code

• Aji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue!

• Reading for episode 9: Active Record Associations

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read "Active Record Validations" and discuss their most-used validation helpers, how they interpreted the validates_associated section of the Guides, and when not to over-validate.

• Reading for this episode: "Active Record Validations"

• Time for a Boolean gem

• What's in a name (validation)?

• Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive Forms

• Reading for episode 8: Active Record Callbacks

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina discuss chapters 5 through 9 of "Active Record Migrations". They debate migration file management, and touch on the relationship between end users and application data, and learning complex concepts within Rails' convention over configuration framework.

• Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9

• thoughtbot's AWS Platform Guide (Flightdeck)

• Reading for episode 7: "Active Record Validations"

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 1 through 4 in “Active Record Migrations” and discuss command line generator options, database-level comments, and reverting migrations.

• Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 1-4

• Reading for episode 6: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9

• Reading for this episode: "Active Record Basics"
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
• Mats'z Home Conference
• Reading for Episode 5: Chapters 1 - 4 in "Active Record Migrations"

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 8 through 13 of "Getting Started with Rails". They discussed RailsConf and Ruby Central, refactoring using concerns and partials, semantic HTML, and much more.

• Reading for this episode: Chapters 8-13 in "Getting Started with Rails"

• Ruby Central (Hit SIGN IN, then SIGN UP)

• Brittany Martin & the Ruby on Rails Podcast

• Drew Bragg & Code and the Coding Coders who Code it

• MDN : The Anchor element

• Reading for Episode 4: "Active Record Basics"