Ruby Rogues

Ruby Rogues


Latest Episodes

RUBY 481: Why We Worry About All the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause
December 23, 2020

Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing. Panels Dave Kimura John

RUBY 480: The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage with Paul Zaich
December 01, 2020

Paul Zaich from Checkr tells us about a critical outage that occurred, what caused it and how they tracked down and fixed the issue. The conversation ranges through troubleshooting complex systems, building team culture, blameless post-mortems, and monito

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working
November 27, 2020

  Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that fo

RUBY 479: Mistakes Were Made with Jesse Spevack
November 26, 2020

Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived through the choices that they made, we chat about the lessons learned. Links https://railsconf.com/2020/video/jesse-spevack-mistake

RUBY 478: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results
November 17, 2020

2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and workflows in their day to day development lives. From these responses we hope to get an understanding of where Rails stands as a framework i

RUBY 477: Black-Belt Debugging with Chelsea Troy
November 10, 2020

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn how to actively improve debugging skills, train troubleshooting instincts and practical strategies for tackling brain-bending bugs. Spons

RUBY 476: SQL, Arel and the Dark Side of ActiveRecord with Eric Hayes
November 03, 2020

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths of Arel, ActiveRecord’s private API. We learn why writing custom SQL queries in 2020 can make sense and how to unlock the more power

RR 475: Succeeding to Your Next CodingPhase with Joe Santos Garcia
October 27, 2020

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully get into coding and grow into a coding career. He talks about growing his YouTube channel, membership site, and deciding where you want to

RR 474: React on Rails V12 - Don't Shave That Yak! with Justin Gordon
October 13, 2020

React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about creating a great developer experience with React and Rails, the best way to manage your webpack configuration, simplify server and client

RR 473: GraphQL Doesn't Need To Be Hell with Dmitry Tsepelev
October 06, 2020

Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the advantages over REST-based API queries and best practices for security and schemas. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Dave