Ruby Rogues

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RR 369: How Ruby 2.5 Prints Backtraces and Error Messages with Vishal Telangre Jul 03, 2018

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Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Vishal TelangreIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Vishal Telangre about his blog post entitled Ruby 2.5 prints backtrace and error message in reverse order. Vishal is working remotely for BigBinary where he works with Ruby on Rails, Kuberernetes, and Elm. They talk about the power of blog posts at BigBinary, give suggestions for people wanting to get into blogging, and inspiration for blog posts. They also touch on his blog post, the changes to backtrace in Ruby 2.5, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Vishal intro
BigBinary posts a lot of blogs
Write about the experiences that they encounter while working
Plan-free Fridays
Is there any type of motivation or culture that adds to people wanting to provide so many blog posts?
Suggestions for someone trying to get into blogging
Vishal’s blog posts at BigBinary
Start with a simple topic
Your blog post doesn’t have to “change the world”
Blogging about new things coming up
Ruby 2.5 backtrace
His blog post
Changes to backtrace in Ruby 2.5
Makes debugging convenient
Huge change for companies who do logs
Effect of change from a developer standpoint
Time saved
Mixed sentiments on this change
When this features is enabled
And much, much more!

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RR 368: Improving Ruby Performance with Rust with Daniel P. Clark Jun 26, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers
David Richards

Special Guests: Daniel P. ClarkIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Daniel P. Clark about improving Ruby performance with Rust. Daniel has been a hobbyist programmer for over 20 years and started blogging about Ruby and other technical matters about 5 years ago. One of the things he is well known for is his Faster Path gem on GitHub, which has over 700 stars. They talk about his blog article Improving Ruby Performance with Rust, why he chose to use Rust, and the benefits of using a Rust extension in Ruby. They also touch on his faster path gem, the Helix project, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Daniel intro
Likes to blog - 6ftdan.com
Released Faster Path gem
Ruby
Improving Ruby Performance with Rust blog article
Why Rust?
Rust to the rescue (of Ruby) blog article
Rust was exciting because of the promises it gave
No garbage collector in Rust
Why is not having a garbage collector a positive?
Rust’s ownership model
Why would use a Rust extension in Ruby?
Have you played around with sending objects into a Ruby function?
The story behind creating his Faster path gem
rubyflow.com
Turbolinks and Spring and how they react
Helix project
And much, much more!

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RR 367: Ruby Core Language Evolution: Moving towards functional with Victor Shepelev Jun 19, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers
David Richards

Special Guests: Victor ShepelevIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Victor Shepelev about functional programming in Ruby. Victor is a Ukrainian programmer and poet who has been programming since he was a child. He has been programming with Ruby for the past 12 years and has contributed a lot to the open source community, as well as mentors and participates in discussions about Ruby’s progress. They talk about how to approach functional programming in Ruby, changes Victor hopes to see in Ruby, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Victor intro
What is functional programming in terms of Ruby?
Used to be a computer journalist and historian of programming languages
Higher-order functions
Functional style of programming was possible from the beginning in Ruby
Haskell
Functional style in any language
Making the functional style more natural in the future
His current interests
Is pattern matching something you would like to see changed?
What are some changes in Ruby that you would like to see?
What is pattern-matching?
Seeing code in a more idiomatic way
Still a lot of discussions happening
Immutable objects
Speeding up Ruby
The more functional Ruby is becoming, the more room for optimization there is
Writing at a higher level
Elixir
Gentle extension to what is already there
The “old self”
And much, much more!

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RR 366: Build Your Own RSpec: A Gentle Metaprogramming Intro with Paweł Dąbrowski Jun 12, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards

Special Guests: Paweł DąbrowskiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Paweł Dąbrowski about metaprogramming and DSLs. Paweł is a Ruby developer, is on the iRonin team, and runs a Ruby blog, which he started in January 2018. They talk about his blog, the importance of contributing to the community, and why he chose to create his own version of RSpec. They also touch on how hard it was to get into blog writing as a developer, the use of blog writing as a way to confirm your skills, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Paweł intro
Build your own RSpec blog post
Wanted to dive in and share his thoughts on the topic
The importance of branding yourself
He wants to be able to share his skills to others
What prompted you to want to write a blog?
Importance of contributing to the Ruby community
Developer therapy
Write a blog post and then make it into a script
Do you find yourself going back to your blog posts in the future?
Why did you decide to create your own version of RSpec?
How far did you get into creating your own RSpec before it got really difficult?
Remind yourself it’s just Ruby code
Did you use TDD?
Do you think about the application code differently now?
Writing application code is easier for him now
How hard was it to get into blog writing?
The fear of the opinions of others
Blog writing has changed the way he looks at code
Blog writing as a way to confirm your skills
His inspiration for the blog posts
And much, much more!

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RR 365: Should I Use Ruby on Rails with Nathan Kontny Jun 05, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards

Special Guests: Nathan KontnyIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Nathan Kontny about his video Should I use Ruby on Rails? Nathan has been a Rails developer since about 2005 when he created a startup and has since been making software and starting business. He has just recently been running the CRM Highrise and is now onto more projects elsewhere. They talk about his prior experiences as a software developer, why he chose to use Rails when creating software, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Nathan intro
Should I use Ruby on Rails? Video
Engineer for Obama’s re-election campaign
Created Draft
Inkling using Rails
Worked ad Y Combinator
Chose Rails to create startups
Lives are better when people feel like they’re being heard
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Why did you use Rails over something like Django?
Looking into discussion boards and the libraries already created
What made you think it would stay the hottest?
Hosting was awful
Using the hype of Rails to get good press for his startup
When did you first feel confident in your decision to use Rails?
Rackspace
Do you still use Rails or have you switched to something like Node?
Still confident in his decision and loves it as a platform
Using Rails for what it’s good for
And much, much more!

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RR 364: Why Won't Bundle Update? with Olivier Lacan May 30, 2018

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Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Olivier LacanIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Olivier Lacan about his blog post Why Won’t Bundle Update? and related topics. Olivier was originally a designer/web developer who fell into Ruby around 2010 and has been working on Code School, which is sadly in the process of being shut down. They talk about what package managers are, where you would you see them normally in code, dependencies, gems, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Olivier intro
Sass and Haml
Code School
Why they are shutting down Code School
Transferring expertise to PluralSight
The Life and Death of a Rails App
What is a package manager?
Where would you see a package manager?
Reusable code
More structured and sustainable process
Conversations that helps the community mature
Ruby Gems
What’s acceptable across communities
Dependencies
Having collaborative conversations
Yarn
Transitive dependencies
Authentication
Dependencies as degrees of liability
Taking on risk
And much, much more!

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RR 363: Fir - The Friendly Interactive Ruby REPL with Dean Nasseri May 22, 2018

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Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Dean NasseriIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Dean Nasseri about Fir. Fir is the friendly interactive Ruby REPL that Dean created when he was inspired by the REPL Fish. Dean is a software engineer at VTS, which is a commercial real estate software platform that uses Ruby on Rails. They talk about why he created Fir, how he approached creating it, how long it took him to build, and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Dean intro
What is Fir?
Inspired by Fish REPL
Interactive approach
Does that work with multi-lines?
Quick lookup
What’s your favorite way to use Fir?
Use REPLs for everything
Pry
Pry vs Fir
How did you approach creating a REPL?
Looked at Pry a lot hen creating Fir
Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
Do you have a lot of users of it?
Wants to direct people to Fish
Why would someone switch to Fish?
Oh My ZSH
Auto suggestions are killer
How much time did this take you to build?
What kind of terminal do you use?
Hyper
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RR 362: Measuring Ruby Performance with Rails and Discourse with Noah Gibbs May 15, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
David Richards
Dave Kimura
Catherine Meyers

Special Guests: Noah GibbsIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Noah Gibbs about measuring Ruby performance with Rails and Discourse. Noah wrote a book called Rebuilding Rails and is currently analyzing Ruby performance for AppFolio. They talk about how he puts benchmarks around Discourse, the 2 distinct audiences that come to Rails, and how Rails is constantly improving. They also touch on his life as a programmer leading up to being a Ruby fellow and much more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Catherine intro
Noah intro
Engineering.appfolio.com
Ruby Weekly
Do you find that your benchmark is applicable worldwide?
Rails is going to continue to rise and fall
Ruby code goes up and down with Rails in the US
Hanami
How do you put benchmarks around Discourse?
Messy and requires a lot of tooling
Always a balance in a benchmark
The “real world” is messy
2 distinct audiences for Rails
Rails is transitioning over time
Nothing has ever come close to Rails
Technology revolves around what’s hot
Recent shift in technology
Server-less technology
The life of a Ruby fellow
And much, much more!

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RR 361: Ruby Elapsed Time with Luca Guidi May 08, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
David Richards
Dave Kimura

Special Guests: Luca GuidiIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Luca Guidi about Ruby elapsed time. Luca works remotely for DNSimple and is most well known in the Ruby community for his open source projects, such as Hanami. They talk about NTP, time drifts, and the pros and cons to using a monoatomic clock. They also touch on the importance of being exposed to different languages in order to be a well-rounded developer.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Luca intro
His elapsed time blog post
Why he wrote the blog post
What is NTP?
NTP = Network Time Protocol
The importance of keeping your computer time in sync with an external NTP server
Time drifts
World clock and monatomic clock
The blindness around time
Building a system around time
Working on time and attendance
The things you don’t think about are what you take for granted
RailsConf
How did you come about finding this conclusion?
Go Computer Language
Being exposed to different languages
Ruby is flexible and high-level
The dangers of coming to Ruby as their first language
Rails
And much, much more!

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RR 360: Cucumber is 10 years old with Aslak Hellesøy May 01, 2018

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Charles Max Wood
David Richards

Special Guests: Aslak HellesøyIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk to Aslak Hellesøy about Cucumber. Aslak has been a software developer since around 1997 and has been in the Ruby community since around 2003. He created Cucumber in 2008, which has been his hobby on the side since its creation. They talk about the difference between TDD and BDD, what Cucumber is, and how it works. They also stress the importance of having conversations in order to facilitate collaboration and trust.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Aslak intro
What is the difference between TDD and BDD?
Selenium and Cypress
Capybara
With BDD, you lose your fast feedback loop and your flow
People accept slow feedback loops
The test pyramid
Most tests should be uni-tests
Why is it that full-stack tests are slow?
io makes full-stack tests slow
What is Cucumber?
A tool that supports behavior-driven development (BDD)
Having conversations around concrete examples
Visualization
Cucumber used to express examples
Allows people to design the tests for the BDD flavor of TDD to develop a software
Example mapping
The importance of having the conversations
Facilitating collaboration and trust
Having face-to-face conversations
And much, much more!