Ruby Rogues

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What's New in Rails 7 with Stefan Wienert - RUBY 529 Jan 05, 2022

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With all this hype around Rails 7, how do you ACTUALLY use it? And is it better than its predecessors? In this episode, the Ruby Rogues sit down with Stefan Wienert, a software developer whose passion for Ruby and technical expertise speak for themselves. The group talks about how to avoid headaches in these new systems, the BEST way to encrypt your data, and plenty of details for navigating Ruby on Rails like you’ve always wanted to. _“You can jump in and fix it right away. It’s very dangerous and very powerful, so it’s great that they have this kind of gem. I’m really excited to about it.”

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In This Episode: Stefan’s perspective on cssbundling and jsbundling vs. webpacker
Why importmaps is a viable alternative to the bundling combinations
Have headaches with sprockets? Stefan tells you why
The reason nodes may not be necessary in the future…if you do THIS correctly
How you can implement AR encryption and keep your backups safe forever Sponsors

Roundtable Picks: Darren’s
Godot Free and Open Source game engine
https://godotengine.org/ Valetino’s
Reddit article “The Time is Right for Hotwire”
Architecture Decision Records Chuck’s
Marvel Legendary board game
Dotcom Secrets
Expert Secrets
Traffic Secrets
Think and Grow Rich Stefan’s
trestle admin interface like ActiveAdmin, but less dependencies, lot of features, couple of relevant plugins (TinyMCE, JSONEditor, Sidekiq Dashboard), BS4 based theme
i18n-tasks - Gem & cli for managing your config/locales/*.yml - Auto Sort, Auto “Route” keys, sync between locales, find unused, find untranslated, auto translate via Google Translate API Connect with Stefan:
Github: zealot128 (Stefan Wienert) · GitHub
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How VIte.js is Changing the Game with Máximo Mussini - RUBY 528 Dec 21, 2021

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If you’re on the search for a robust, lightning-fast solution in your programming language, listen up. The roundtable sits down with Máximo Mussini, a software developer who’s passionate about integrating Ruby and Vte.js together to create something that’s both razor-sharp and freakishly easy to use. The lads discuss how powerful http2 is becoming, the easiest way to slash loading times and be more strategic with your page building, and why you NEED Vite.js’s incredible integration tools to stop playing around and get your pages up and soaring. “This set of new tools brings an on-demand mentality, which has a lot of benefits.”

Máximo Mussini

In This Episode:

How http2 is changing the game with Javascript
How Vite.js and Ruby are slashing reload times and keeping programmers in their flow
Why you need Vite’s incredible integration capabilities to include any packages or files you can imagine
The #1 benefit of Vite.js that’s changing how programmers are able to code, integrate packages, and get their applications up and running

Roundtable Picks! Máximo’s:
GitHub - ElMassimo/jumpstart-vite: ⚡️ Jumpstart a new Rails app with Vite.js + Turbo + Stimulus, and more
https://chat.vitejs.dev/ 1 John’s
Pathfinder: Wrath of The Righteous - https://wrath.owlcatgames.com/
Pick: StimulusJS - https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/ Valentino’s
ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive – ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Women on Rails Newsletter – https://womenonrails.substack.com/
Rails 7 adds in_order_of to queries – Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::QueryMethods#in_order_of to return query results in a particular sequence | Saeloun Blog
Monads explained with cats – https://twitter.com/TartanLlama/status/1460608706048106501 Luke’s
BCS and Chartered Engineer status https://www.bcs.org/
Rage clicks - what do they tell you about user behavior? - Understand your customers | MiSpecial Guest: Máximo Mussini .
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3 Fundamental Pillars You Need to Succeed as an Entrepreneur - BONUS Dec 16, 2021

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Get Lifetime Access to Mani's Entrepreneurship Pack and Book Club. Use coupon code "GREAT"Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode.Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis and Chuck's been getting a lot of requests for entrepreneurship help.He and Mani talk about the 3 primary things that add momentum to your business and help you keep the momentum up when setbacks come your way. Get Lifetime Access to Mani's Entrepreneurship Pack and Book Club. Use coupon code "GREAT"Special Guest: Mani Vaya.
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Ractors ft. Ivo Anjo - RUBY 527 Dec 15, 2021

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Ivo Anjo joins the Rogues to discuss Ractors in Ruby and how they can be used. They're not actors as they appear in other languages. They communicate via message passing.Ivo clarifies several things about Ractors and what their powerful features and the understanding of what they do and how they work.Panel

John Epperson
Valentino Stoll

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Ivo Anjo

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John- RubyConf 2021
Valentino- Creating a UDP server with Ruby Ractors

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Bridgetown.rb ft Felipe Vogel - RUBY 526 Dec 08, 2021

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This week the Rogues talk to Felipe Vogel about how he's using Bridgetown and pros of using it over Jekyll.Bridgetown is a modernized blogging and static site generator platform forked from Jekyll to provide updated capabilities and a webpack based JavaScript asset pipeline for more modern applications.It also expands up on the work done on JAMstack applications to provide Rubyists with a stable launchpad for their applications.For more on Bridgetown, listen to the November 2021 update and AMA by Bridgetown creator Jared WhitePanel

Charles Max Wood
Darren Broemmer
Valentino Stoll

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Felipe Vogel

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Charles- Xero
Charles- Author | Top End Devs
Darren- RUBY ON RAILS DEVELOPER Demographics And Statistics In The US
Felipe- Bridgetown Fundraising
Valentino- letter_opener_web

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MailCatcher ft. Samuel Cochran - RUBY 525 Dec 01, 2021

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Samuel Cochran, creator and maintainer of MailCatcher joins the Rogues to discuss how he pulled EventMachine together with Ruby to build out MailCatcher.He goes into the maintenance and contributions that have come in over the years. He dives into changes that are being made and the stability of the project.Panel

Charles Max Wood
Darren Broemmer
John Epperson
Valentino Stoll

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Samuel Cochran

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Charles- Author | Top End Devs
Charles- Shadow Hunters | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
Charles- Dune
Darren- EngineYard – PaaS Platform as a Service | PaaS Solution
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John- Laundry Detergent Sheets
Samuel- async gem
Valentino- GitHub-Shopify/toxiproxy

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BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working Nov 25, 2021

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Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.The trick? Deep Work!Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
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Mastering Hanami ft. Sebastian Wilgosz - RUBY 524 Nov 24, 2021

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Sebastian Wilgosz joins the Rogues to discuss Hanami, a web framework for Rubyists. He discusses how it works and how it differs from other Ruby based web frameworks.He also discusses what's coming down the pipe and how to get started.Check out his website at https://hanamimastery.com Panel

Charles Max Wood
Darren Broemmer

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Sebastian Wilgosz

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Common Table Expressions in ActiveRecord ft. Vlado Cingel - RUBY 523 Nov 17, 2021

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Vlado Cingel recounts his story where he needed common table expressions within SQL for a project he was working on and wrote a patch to AREL and ActiveRecord which he submitted to the Rails Core. Since it hasn't been accepted, he's supporting it as a gem.Vlado explains what Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are, how they work, and where they're used.Panel

John Epperson
Luke Stutters
Valentino Stoll

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Vlado Cingel

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John- Digital Storm: Custom Gaming Computers & Gaming PCs
Luke- Pitch Perfect
Valentino- Ruby Together
Valentino- Ruby Central
Valentino- The Ruby VM a speedrun - Penelope Phippen
Vlado- The Wood Whisperer Guild - Online Woodworking School
Vlado- Polished Ruby Programming

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How Ruby Method Lookups Work ft. Kingsley Chijioke - RUBY 522 Nov 10, 2021

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Kingsley Chijioke wrote an article breaking down the way that Ruby finds methods and determines which version of a method to run. The Rogues approach the internals of Ruby and discuss the implications of how this comes together and where the listeners may have seen this and point out any gotchas that arise.Panel