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080 - Organizing Rails Code Outside of Active Record with Dave Copeland, Author of Sustainable Rails Jan 19, 2021

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In this episode I talk with Dave Copeland, author of Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails, about organizing Rails code. Dave and I discuss why although many Rails developers are used to it, putting code in Active Record models isn't always the best move. We also share the various tactics we prefer to use in order to keep Rails code organized.

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079 - Dockerizing Rails Applications with Mike Rogers, Founder of TypoCI Jan 12, 2021

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In this episode I talk with Mike Rogers about how to Dockerize Rails applications. We talk about the difference between Dockerizing for development and Dockerizing for production, mount volumes, performance trade-offs, and more.

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078 - StimulusReflex with Jason Charnes Jan 05, 2021

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In this episode I talk with Jason Charnes about StimulusReflex. Jason and I cover what StimulusReflex is as well as some of the core concepts of the technology.

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077 - Courier Configuration Manager with Yoseph Radding Dec 29, 2020

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In this episode I talk with Yoseph Radding, founder of Shuttl, about Courier Configuration Manager.

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076 - Heuristics for Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Tyler Williams Dec 22, 2020

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In this episode I talk with Tyler Williams, Software Engineer at Home Game Poker, about the contents of a blog post he recently wrote entitled Heuristics for Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. Tyler and I discuss some of the ideas in his blog post, most of which came from Sandi Metz's book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR).

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075 - Puma, Front-End Performance and CLI Apps with Nate Berkopec Dec 15, 2020

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In this episode I talk with Nate Berkopec, author of The Complete Guide to Rails Performance. Nate and I discuss Puma, front-end performance and building command-line interface (CLI) apps.

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074 - Molly Struve, Site Reliability Engineer at Forem (Dev.to) Dec 08, 2020

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In this episode I talk with Molly Struve, Site Reliability Engineer at Forem, about a variety of topics including performance, monitoring, types of incidents, dividing time between incident response and preventative work, and, of course, horses.

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073 - [How I'd Build It] Building a Sailing Membership Feature with Adam Hawkins Dec 01, 2020

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This is another How I'd Build It episode, where listeners send in their feature requirements and we discuss them on the show. In this one we talk about a sailing application where there's a need to keep track of whether members' payments are up-to-date. Adam and I also talk about the YAGNI principle as well as why it's not possible to have high-quality code without tests.

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072 - Release Toggles, Feature Branches and Continuous Deployment with Matt Swanson Nov 24, 2020

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It's commonly accepted that it's better to deploy frequently than to only deploy once in a while. However, an obstacle to achieving this ideal is when you have a long-running feature that can't be released until it's all the way done. In this episode Matt Swanson and I talk about the solution to this problem: release toggles, also known as feature flags.

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071 - Stripe Checkout with CJ Avilla, Developer Advocate at Stripe Nov 17, 2020

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In this episode I talk with CJ Avilla, Developer Advocate at Stripe about integrating Stripe with web applications using Stripe Checkout. We also digress into mechanical keyboards and the challenges of keeping APIs up to date.

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