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**Ruby Rogues**

Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.

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RR 408: Zeitwerk with Xavier Noria Apr 16, 2019

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David Kimura
Eric Berry
Andrew Mason

Joined by special guest: Xavier NoriaEpisode SummaryThis episode of Ruby Rogues features Xavier Noria, who has a background in mathematics, but started software in 2000. He has been freelancing for the past 10 years, working especially in open source. He received the Ruby Hero award in 2010. His latest work is with his own creation, Zeitwerk, a more efficient code loader for Ruby. Zeitwerk will be included in Rails 6, but is an independent gym for now. Xavier talks about his inspiration for Zeitwerk and his desire to improve constant outloading in Rails.The panelists delve into the features of Zeitwerk. Any conventional library can use Zeitwerk, so you don’t have to write requires. Zeitwerk is designed to make your development work easier because you don’t have to worry about including in or requiring files in your code snippets, it will intelligently auto load those in. Zeitwerk functions slightly different from classic mode Ruby, because in Zeitwerk, you don’t go constant name to file, instead you are given a file name first, and then add it to a constant. Xavier delves into the limitations of classic mode and the const-missing callback, and how Zeitwerk improves upon this problem by using only absolute paths and module outloading instead of const-missing. The result is that, in general, things load faster.They discuss indexing of absolute paths within Zeitwerk, how one of the principles of Zeitwerk is to be as lazy as possible, the memory footprint, and the configuration needed to opt into Zeitwerk. Overall, Zeitwerk is going to work like Ruby. There are no special rules, it has the same semantics as Ruby, fewer gotcha’s if any at all, control over inflection, ways to introspect, and a way to log the activity of Zeitwerk.Links

PicksDavid Kimura:

Nerf Guns

Eric Barry:

Octotree Chrome extension

Xavier Noria:

Time Trap

Special Guest: Xavier Noria.
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RR 407: Functional Programming in Ruby using Dry Gems with Igor Morozov Apr 09, 2019

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Andrew Mason
Nate Hopkins
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry

Joined by Special Guest: Igor MorozovSummaryThe panel interviews Igor Morozov about functional programming in ruby. Igor Morozov is a lifelong software programmer from Moscow who focuses on functional programming. The panel considers other languages to use for functional programming and the different aspects of ruby that makes it unique for object oriented programming and functional programming. Igor Morozov explains the benefits of using ruby for functional programming versus using a different language. Igor Morozov shares the dry gems that he uses in ruby that makes functional programming easy and the types of projects he is using them for. Railway oriented programming and dry ecosystems are explored while Igor Morozov answers questions about using dry-rb in ruby. The panel discusses type systems and type checking, this leads to a consideration of crystal. The episode ends with a discussion of the job market for senior developers versus training a newer developer.Links

PicksDave Kimura

Nate Hopkins

Andrew Mason

https://luckyframework.org/

Charles Max Wood

https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2019/
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, CA
https://podfestexpo.com/

Igor Morozov

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play (The MIT Press) by Mitchel Resnick

Special Guest: Igor Morozov.
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RR 406: How Hard is Ruby on Rails to Learn? Apr 02, 2019

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Nate Hopkins
David Richards
Dave Kimura

SummaryCharles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of collaboration and using the rails community to learn and to avoid messy architecture. The panel shares tips and resources for learning ruby on rails while discussing their mentoring experiences. The panel ends by coming back to the initial question and gives their final answers on how hard is ruby rails to learn?Links

PicksNate Hopkins

David Richards

Charles Max Wood

https://www.jamesfend.com/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini
That’s Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

Dave Kimura

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2-silver

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app
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RR 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson Mar 26, 2019

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Nate Hopkins
Dave Kimura
Andrew Mason
Charles Max Wood

Joined by Special Guest: Lori OlsonSummaryLori Olson introduces herself, her school and ruby motion. Lori invites all to come to her webinar introducing her “six steps from idea to app store”. The panel discusses their rubymotion experiences and issues; which Lori advises on gems that will help. Lori shares her introduction to ruby and the story of writing her book.The evolution of rubymotion is shared leading the panel to discuss dragon ruby, the rebranding of rubymotion, which will be open sourced. Lori discusses her views of open sourcing and talks about her experiences in the rubymotion community; Amir Rajan, the owner of rubymotion, and his role and success in rubymotion are discussed. The panel considers flows potential and discusses the best way to develop for IOS and android. Links

Picks Nate Hopkins

Dave Kimura

Andrew Mason

Charles Max Wood

Lori Olson

Special Guest: Lori Olson.
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RR 397: Oracle with Karthik Gaekwad Mar 21, 2019

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David Kamira
Eric Berry
Andrew Mason

Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad Episode Summary In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists speak with Karthik Gaekwad, who helped build the Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The panelists discuss the naming of Ruby as the Server-Side Programming Language of the Year in 2018, beating out PHP and Java. Karthik talks about incorporating Ruby into Oracle. His team uses Ruby in both development and operations, and having a common language has increased their efficiency. The panelists discuss the shift from constant servers to more volatile servers that can make provisions on the fly. Karthik explains the benefits of using Oracle Cloud Native over other services. Oracle places a lot of emphasis on helping startups by giving them more computing power than other companies. Karthik talks about the merits of using Kubernetes in testing and production, and encourages those interested in using Kubernetes to jump in and start learning about it. For startups that want to use Kubernetes but lack a specialist, Karthik suggests letting a cloud service (like Oracle) manage the servers. Finally, Karthik tells listeners how to get started using Oracle Cloud, namely:

Go to cloud.oracle.com
Click the green “Try For Free” button to create your account
Go into the Oracle Cloud Console and start exploring
People who sign up get $300 in free credits

Links:

Picks Andrew:

Archipelago

Eric:

Desk Mini Fridge
Asynci (in beta)

David:

Presonus Studio channel amplifier

Karthik:

- Visual Studio Code
- Cloudnative.oracle.com
- Karthik’s team blog

Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad.
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RR 404: Ruby Bindings & Extensions With FFI with Sean Handley Mar 19, 2019

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Dave Kimura

Joined by Special Guest: Sean HandleySummarySean Handley explains in detail ruby bindings and FFI and why they might be useful. The panel discusses the advantages of using a ruby binding, such as speed and opening up access to other projects. Sean Handley and Dave Kimura give advice on organizing code, to make it easier to use the FFI library. Sean Handley talks about his experience using FFI and native extension. The discussion switches gears and talks about Sean Handley’s blog post about hexagons and 3D space. The panel discusses how this math is used in services like Uber. Sean Handley brings up that hexagons are seen in nature and shares the beehive example. The discussion ends with Sean Handley answering a few more questions about FFI and Fiddle.Links

PicksAndrew Mason

http://strftimer.com/

Sean Handley

https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/

Dave Kimura

Special Guest: Sean Handley.
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RR 403: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer Mar 12, 2019

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Andrew Mason

Joined by Special Guest: Stefan WintermeyerEpisode summaryStefan Wintermeyer, a german consultant, discusses his recent blog post “Rails needs Active Deployment”. He goes on to explain that this isn’t meant for rails deployment “rockstars” or Heroku, this is for normal developers who need an easier way to deploy their rails applications. Stefan Wintermeyer addresses the suggestions of using Docker. This begins a discussion of the different services that can be used and the disconnects found in many of them. Stefan Wintermeyer brings up the unfortunate truth of how many new developers give up because of the difficulty of the last step in rails. The panel discusses the difficulty of finding a perfect fit for all applications and share the different solutions they’ve tried in many services. This sparks a lively discussion on what a community wide solution might look like and what that might entail.Links

PicksEric Berry:

https://www.intercom.com/

Dave Kimura:

https://probot.github.io/

Andrew Mason:

http://jack-eb.com

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RR 402: Ruby 2.6.0 Bugs, Kafka, and Karafka with Maciej Mensfeld Mar 05, 2019

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Andrew Mason
Eric Berry
Dave Kimura
Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guest: Maciej MensfeldEpisode SummaryIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Maciej Mensfeld, Senior Software Engineer at Castle Intelligence and the creator of the Karafka framework. Maciej explains to listeners the Karafka and Kafka frameworks and their advantages, the differences between Karafka and gems like DeliveryBoy and Racecar, certain use cases where Kafka can be used efficiently such as for fast data processing (messages at the rate of 50k per second), normalizing the request stream, buffering data and event-driven architecture. They discuss the framework’s contrast with respect to a traditional queue system and comparison to different languages.Maciej talks about some problems faced in the development stage and answers questions related to Kafka features such as strong ordering and error handling with examples. He also explains the procedure of using a consolidated gem with Docker containers, which is a part of his project set to release in April 2019. They discuss some specific errors in Ruby 2.6.0 and finally, he gives details about the Ruby users group based in Krakow, Poland and their meetups.Links

PicksEric Berry:

Dave Kimura’s beautiful video setup

Andrew Mason:

Mac keyboard shortcut for nice screenshots: ⌘⌃ ⇧4 + space-bar and click on open window.
Contributors’ names listed in the Readme file of the open source project – Andrew’s contribution

Dave Kimura:

Gatorade powder - to mix with Amoxicillin for better taste
Elgato Cam Link 4k (reason for the excellent video setup!)

Charles Max Wood:

Special Guest: Maciej Mensfeld.
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RR 401: Environment Variables & Ruby with Jesus Castello Feb 27, 2019

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Dave Kimura
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Charles Wood

Joined by special guest: Jesus CastelloEpisode SummaryIn this episode, Jesus Castello, a ruby developer who has been programming since he was 10 years old. He has been a Ruby Developer for 7 years. He teaches Ruby and has a Youtube channel and website. — discusses with the panel his post about Environmental Variables. Jesus teaches what an environmental variable is, and then together Jesus and the panel discuss the uses of environmental variables. One specific topic they go into detail on is credentials and the master key. They also ask him questions about his career teaching Ruby to those on the web.Links

Picks Dave Kimura:

Andrew Mason:

EugeneMayer/ docker-sync

Jesus Castello:

Eric Berry:

Special Guest: Jesus Castello.
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RR 400: Celebrating a Milestone - Ruby Rogues 400th Episode Feb 19, 2019

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Episode Summary In this 400th episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists - Dave Kimura, Andrew Mason, Eric Berry, Charles Max Wood talk about themselves, their backgrounds, things they are working with, their journey and perspectives on life in general.Eric has been a developer since 1998 and is working on Ruby on Rails since 2008. He talks about his current company – CodeFund, an ethical advertising platform that helps open-source developers generate a recurring passive income which encourages them to maintain existing software as well as contribute to additional projects. Dave is currently in a transition phase employer-wise, and in addition, has also been running “Drifting Ruby”, an online screencast and tutorial site for the Ruby language from the past 4 years. Andrew has recently graduated with a Computer Science degree and is working at a Ruby on Rails shop full-time. Charles is currently working on making sure that devchat continues smoothly which includes getting relevant sponsorships, building systems around the podcasts, ensuring that shows go out on time and more. He talks about wanting to improve the show and make it as useful as possible to listeners.They each talk about their favorite episodes and reminisce about some good ones. They also discuss hobbies and activities that they enjoy apart from regular development work. Towards the end, Charles speaks on the end goal and vision behind devchat and the steps he is currently taking in creating a resourceful site for people that in turn pushes them to achieve their own goals.Links

PicksAndrew

Dave

Eric

Charles

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