Ruby Rogues

Latest Episodes:

RR 339: Typical Day of a Developer Dec 05, 2017

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Panel:Dave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues panel discuss the typical day of a developer. Eric, David, and Dave speak about their daily routines as far as preparation, favorite task management tools, workflows, meetings, coding and testing, home life, working remote, commuting, health/mental healthy choices, and scheduling your projects to stay on course.Importantly, the panel discusses how to handle burnout and keeping up the inspiration to work, and build side businesses. This is a great episode to learn tips and tricks from successful developers and staying the course for further success and longevity in the industry.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

First, how Eric Berry handles day to day
Preparation for the day
Clubhouse task management
Calendly
Handling burnout!
Organization with your tasks list
Passion
Recharging or resetting/resting
Doing what matters to you - Validation
Second, how Dave Kimura handle day to day
Healthy choices - eating in or out for lunch
Working from home after hours
Scheduling your tasks
Priority is with the family
Third, how David handles day to day
Mediation and clarity
How much time do you spend learning something new
Hiring
What is the ideal day?
Delivering a product
No meetings
Learning something new
What does a bad day look like
Production issues
Disorganization
and much much more.

Links:

Clubhouse
Calendly
Sapiens - Book
Writing Great Sentences - Book
trello.com

Picks:Eric

Dave

AWS BeanStalk

David

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RR 338: Data Warehousing with Trae Robrock Nov 28, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Trae RobrockIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Trae Robrock. Trae is on Ruby Rogues to talk about his current business Green Bits. Green Bits creates point of sale (POS) inventory management software for the legal cannabis industry. Green Bits has been in business for the last 3 years since 2014, and they have launched alongside Washington states recreational program. Green Bits is functioning 7 states and is running 80% of the Washington market.Trae explains about the real-time mapping built-in the tracking system in the APIs. Furthermore, Trae talks about the tracking system between the seed to the customer purchase. Lastly, Ruby Rogues digs deep and learn how the infrastructure works for a growing industry.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

The controversial company Green Bits
Schedule 1 drug
Banking with this business and industry
Cash-based business with no paper trail
Paper trail only on the product
Tracking data and finances
600 customer base
Track systems APIs
We are just a startup company starting a real business not potheads
Modeling Data
Naming system
Opening Replicator
Scaling the system
ETL - Sub 1 minutes times
Rebuilding databases
How long does it take to get up to speed?
Accounting knowledge
How do you get started with a Warehousing system like this?
AWS Lamda
Star Schema
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:Trae

GaryVee Experience

Dave

Beats Headphones

Charles

David

The 3 Important Things I know about Consumers I Learned From Bartending

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RR 337: Rapidly Mapping API Schemas in Ruby with Adam Cuppy Nov 21, 2017

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Panel:Brian HoganDave KimuraEric BerrySpecial Guest: Adam CuppyIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speaks with Adam Cuppy. Adam is the co-founder of Zeal. Zeal is a software consultancy that specializes in Rails, React, and Elixir. In his earlier experience, he was a professional actor. Adam talks about his journey from actor to a developer, and his self-taught experience as he dived into coding for a creative company and learned about marketing. Adam is on Ruby Rouges to talks about his current talk on Rapidly Mapping API Schemas in Ruby. Adam recently presented this topic to the annual Ruby Dev Summit.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Transition to Developer
Web applications
Creative and Artistry
Rapidly Mapping API Schemas in Ruby
Is this similar to Zappier?
Meta Programming
Hash
Client Object
Calling Data
Being self taught and becoming aware of patterns
Design patterns
PHP framework and intro to Rails
NVC
Inspiration to build
Communication among the team is the first code you write
What if Shakespeare wrote Ruby?
Write and tell a new story
Failure is not that common - Break stuff.
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:Dave

Drifting Ruby Podcast

Adam

Eric

Bottega

Brian

officehours.io

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RR 336: Refactoring Mature Rails Apps with Ben Orenstein Nov 15, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryDavid RichardsSpecial Guest: Ben OrensteinIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speak with a return guest, Ben Orenstein. Ben gives an update on leaving the company he worked for ThoughtBot, to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations. He most recent work is a call Refactoring Rails. Ben speaks about the work that went into creating this course and working with Rail on this type of platform. Ben dives into the course features such as testing practices, coding practices, code quality, and much more.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What makes Rail development slow to a crawl?
Active record callbacks
Slow tests
Testing best practices
Who will this course benefit?
Coding practices
As an advance dev. It is still good to get another perspective
Keeping the configuration up to date.
Working in teams - Code quality and quantity
Leaving ThoughtBot
Surrendering relationship after leaving the job
Solo entrepreneurship - is this work?
Working in confidence
Working on Elm
Refactoring old version of rails
Refactoring code
Dev. Ops team
Technical debt
30 Day Code Quality Challenge
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:David

What Makes Us Feel Great About Our Work?

Dave

Sentury

Chuck

Course - How To Find A Job
NeuYear
Battery Powered Soldering Iron

Eric

MetaBase

Ben

Gem - Adder Extras
Book - DeskBound

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RR 335: Collaborative and Effective Work Environment with David Richards Nov 08, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerrySpecial Guest: David RichardsIn this episode, the Ruby Rogues speak with David Richards. David has been a software developer for the last couple of decades and develops most of his software with Ruby. Currently, David is building fin-tech products for companies.David is on Ruby Rogues to talk about the process of collaborative work, developer turnover, effective work, and personally connecting with your work. Also, the differences in being older and more experienced developer in today’s world. Lastly, David and the panel discuss the overall effectiveness of a developer in the company and among his/her peers.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Developer turnover
Work overload
Doing something that matter in your job
Finding yourself and passion for a job
Being an emotional developer
Generational expectations of your job
The definition of work has changed!
Knowledge worker
Being an older and experience
Working with new developers, and finding developers with experience
Doing the brown-bag lunch
Hiring and the kinds of things you want them to deliver
Power, pleasure, and meaning in a job vs. job title.
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:David

Dave

Chuck

Getting back into Coding
Gems - CarrierWav, Fog, MiniMagic
Bash
VS code

Eric

Chad Whitaker - GradaPay
Github

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RR 334: Is Elixir the Next Ruby? with Hal Fulton Oct 31, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraSpecial Guest: Hal FultonIn this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Hal Fulton. Hal is one of the first few people to learn the Ruby language in the beginning from the Japanese. Hal describes the history Ruby and his journey to before an author of the book The Ruby Way. This book was one of the few foundational elements Ruby developers of today.Hal has recently presented at the Ruby Dev Summit, on Is Elixir the new Ruby? The panel asks questions about, how or if, Elixir is possibly out there to replace Ruby. Hal talks about the pros and con of Ruby in today’s world fo development. Also, the practicality of Elixir and how it fits into our world today.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Hal talks about the history of Ruby
Ruby does not handle multiple processors
The Free Lunch is Over - Moore’s Law
The future is in multiple core and or processors
OOP or FP
Immutability
Rail helped Ruby in the uptake
Speed and Threads of Elixir
Phoenix
Erline, Raya - Elixir
Elixer is easier on the eyes as far as syntax
Tools you are using can wear you down
What is Elixir missing? Time and Date issues
and much much more.

Links:

Picks:Hal

The Secret History - Books
The Shadow of the Wind - Book
The Mars Society - Organization
The Long Now Foundation - Organization
Gesture App for iPad

Dave

Interact JS

Chuck

Getting back into Coding
egghead.io
devchat.tv/15minutes

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RR 333: RubyMotion and the Aesthetic of Ruby with Amir Rajan Oct 25, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraSpecial Guest: Amir RajanIn this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Amir Rajan. Amir is a game developer and is the most successful Ruby game developer. Amir is also the owner/CEO of RubyMotion. RubyMotion allows you to write Ruby for the Mac platform. Amir will be speaking at Ruby Dev Summit this fall.Amir talks about being apart of not web part of Ruby and the innovation including mobile. The panel discusses building application for mobile in Ruby Motion and the OS platform. The panel also discusses the easy of building with RubyMotion and how the language has come along way since Mac Ruby and others. Also, how to get started and all installations required to build with RubyMotion.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby - not on the web
Mobile Ruby
Google and Android don’t provide the same thing for app building.
Mac Ruby
Language Translation compiler
LLVM bit code - Low-level virtual machine
How RubyMotion works with LLVM
Complier backends
LLVM Kaleidoscope
Understand one level below Ruby
Ruby Source code
Learning RubyMotion - Red Potion, AF Motion, Bubble Wrap
Masonry
Understanding Apple’s documentation
Ruby Motion does Android
Why pick RubyMotion?
and much much more.

Links:

We are the designated survivors/digging into Ruby: Heredoc pull request
LLVM Kaleidoscope
RubyMotion
Twich - Game Development with Ruby
Amir Rajan
@amirranjan

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Dave

Rerun

Chuck

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RR 332: Exploring Connections Between Your Apps and the Web with Justin Weiss Oct 17, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodEric BerrySpecial Guest: Justin WeissIn this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Justin Weiss. Justin is a software developer for aha.io, blogs at justinweiss.com, and is also the book author of Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed.Justin gives a preview of his presentation at Ruby Dev Summit , which is about exploring connections between your apps and the web. Ruby Rogues and Justin dive deep into questions about testing apps with an array of tools to see how that information is relevant in exploring connectivity and working parts of apps.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Apps becoming of the web instead of running on the web
Breaking into the connection between your apps or native client and your mode APIs
Micro Services
Finding the pain points
Where to start to begin open visibility
Deploy and looking at logs - Gems and Libraries.
Tooling - API requests manually - Postman app , PAW
Automation or one-off tools
When something breaks, what kind of information is relevant
Figuring out what part of the apps are working well and reproducing problems
Error Logs
Sandi Metz Principle
Authentication and Authorization
Characterizing
and much much more.

Links:

Aha.io
Justin Weiss
Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed
justinweiss.com
Postman app
PAW
Advance Rest Client
Charles proxy
@JustinWeiss

Picks:Eric

Pry - Rails, Remote, Stack Explore, Doc, Nav
CodeSponsor.io

Justin

Books - The 3 Book Problem

Chuck

Ruby Dev Summit
Angular Bundle
ThriveCart.com
Chuck@DevChat.tv

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RR 331: 30 days to Elixir then Crystal and back again to Ruby with Fabio Akita Oct 10, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryBrian HoganSpecial Guest: Fabio AkitaThe Ruby Rouges speak with Fabio Akita, a return guess. Fabio is a blogger at AkitaOnRails.com and is an organizer and speaker at Ruby Dev. Conf. Brazil. Fabio mentions have minor open source projects. Fabio talks revolve around “How do you as a Ruby Developer, dive into new languages,” such as Crystal and Elixir. Fabio will be speaking on the upcoming Ruby Dev Summit.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Should we just all just go to Elixir?
Problems with choosing and staying with one language?
Ruby is a ZPE language or 0.8 languages.
Ruby on Rail was never a full solution.
Elixir is not a difficult language, object-oriented, and functional.
Elixir is linked an operating system.
What drove you to Elixir?
When new languages come up to replace something you already have…
Crystal is a getting a stable API in a few months.
LLVM - Low-Level Virtual Machine, or compiler framework
Copy and pasting your Ruby code into the Crystal compiler
Dropbox client running on python
Using Rabbit MQ
and much more.

Links: • @AkitaOnRails•@RubyconfBR•Codeminer42facebook.com/akitaonrailsPicks:Eric•imazing Dave•Apple Watch Chuck•Just Keep Going…Brian•Plug Rails Cookies Sessions Store

Fabio

Special Guest: Fabio Akita.
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RR 330: Functions vs Methods with Devon Estes Oct 03, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerrySpecial Guest: Devon EstesThe Ruby Rouges speak with Devon Estes, a return guess and Ruby developer who currently lives in Berlin, Germany. The topic of discussion is about Function vs. Methods, and talk about blocks and its functions. Also, some further digging into the behaviors of functions and designs. Devon explains that this topic will be of discussion at Ruby Dev Conf.Devon dives into the object orientation and the interactions between functions, editing or changing functions. The Ruby Rogues ask questions about, service functions, subsections of applications, application logic, and understanding the parts.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: