Ruby Rogues

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290 RR Deployment Dec 14, 2016

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00:45 - What deployments have we used?3:22 - Heroku 5:10 - Dev/prod parity10:30 - Deployment stories11:50 - Continuous deployment

15:55 - Working with clients that are anti-testing and writing tests28:50 - Server setup

34:05 - Nginx and Passenger 39:35 - Handling caching issues and increasing server space44:25 - Methods for deploying46:30 - Team size and deployment

Capistrano

49:40 - Monitoring tools

Picks: Dinosaur Odyssey by Scott Sampson (Jason) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan (Jason) Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy by Justin Williams (Jerome) Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin (Brian) Deploying with JRuby by Joe Kutner (Brian)RR Episode 281 with Noel Rappin RR 150 with Joe Kutner Echo Dot (Charles) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (Brian) Getting Things Done by David Allen (Charles)
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289 RR Head First Ruby and Treehouse with JayMcGavren Dec 07, 2016

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00:25 - Introducing Jay McGavren

1:20 - Teaching style and joining Treehouse 4:35 - Head First Ruby’s ideal audience8:00 - Challenges with teaching11:30 - Writing Head First Ruby 12:50 - Doing research

Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load by Ruth Clark

15:20 - Reader feedback16:05 - Hangups when learning Ruby20:45 - Searching for error messages23:20 - Early days of programming24:20 - Jay’s switch from Pearl to Ruby30:50 - Building a thorough education with Ruby39:05 - The rate of Ruby change48:30 - Different languages and coding standardsPicks: Effective Ruby: 48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby by Peter J. Jones (Jerome) The Ace Editor github (Jerome) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr by Ron Chernow (Jason) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Jason) Evans Mill (Charles) Selfie Sticks (Charles) Shiren the Wanderer video game (Jay) The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin (Jay)Special Guest: JayMcGavren.
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288 RR Upgrading Rails Apps with Joshua Wood and Ben Wood Nov 30, 2016

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00:45 - Introducing the Wood brothers and their work

3:05 - Upgrading Rails without breaking it6:25 - Working with clients with technical debt12:20 - Frequently seen projects and clients14:45 - Upgrading clients from older versions of Rails22:50 - Why do clients push off upgrading?28:10 - How do you know when it’s time to upgrade?34:35 - Finding the right clients

37:50 - Avoiding technical debt

40:30 - Upgrading Rails yourself

Picks: Suture Gem (Ben) Debride Gem (Ben) JRuby Truffle Project by Oracle (Josh)
ThinkPads (Josh) Honeybadger IO (Josh) “A Rubyist’s Guide to Big-O Notation” blog post (Josh) Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracey (Brian) Codefights (Brian) Basics of Mechanical Engineering by Paul D. Ronney (Jason) The Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan (Jason)Special Guests: Ben Wood and Joshua Wood.
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287 RR Hacking the Asset Pipeline with Cameron Dutro Nov 23, 2016

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00:40 - Introducing Cameron Dutro

2:15 - What is the Asset Pipeline?5:35 - Problems and limitations of the Asset Pipeline8:10 - Cameron’s biggest frustration with the Asset Pipeline14:45 - Doing it the Rails way, the Angular way, or the React way20:25 - Keeping your Webpack and Asset Pipeline separate: Working with Javascript and Rails

31:45 - Creating your own preprocessor for putting a file format into the pipeline

Sprockets github link

36:15 - Other issues with the Asset Pipeline40:00 - Causes behind problems with the Asset Pipeline42:05 - Hygiene of packages43:40 - Incorporating plugins into the pipeline45:30 - Resources for learning more

Rails guides

Picks: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (Jason) Philosophize This! Podcast (Jason) Typora (Brian) Facer.io (Brian) Eventual Millionaire Podcast by Jamie Masters (Charles) Toggl time tracking software (Charles)Being nice to each other (Charles) Ruby Together (Cameron) Lumosity (Cameron)Seattle Seahawks (Cameron)Special Guest: Cameron Dutro .
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286 RR Agile Ventures with Sam Joseph Nov 16, 2016

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00:35 - Introducing Sam Joseph

2:15 - All about Agile Ventures6:25 - Social innovations9:30 - Common needs of charity organizations15:15 - Origins and growth of Agile Ventures19:19 - Website One22:00 - Goals for the future of Agile Ventures24:40 - Getting involved

29:00 - Finding motivated team members and using MOOC32:40 - Connecting with your team and building up confidence37:40 - Direct Messaging42:10 - Fear of asking questions on Stack Overflow52:17 - Scaling Agile Ventures56:15 - Predictions for the futurePicks: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Jason) jason@benfranklinlabs.com for working with Jason as a consultant (Jason) Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder (Jerome) Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (Jerome) MindMup2 (Charles) Born to Win seminar by Zig Ziglar on Audible (Charles) Rail Roady (Sam) The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft (Sam) Genestealer Cults by Peter Fehervari (Sam) Tyranids (Sam)Special Guest: Sam Joseph.
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285 RR Ruby Conf Brazil and Building Communities with Fabio Akita Nov 09, 2016

Show notes

00:15 - Fabio’s experience writing the first Portuguese Ruby on Rails book

7:35 - Effect on Fabio’s career9:10 - Sharing your knowledge without being an expert11:30 - Is Ruby still exciting? Should you learn a new language?18:50 - Using a different language and returning to Ruby22:30 - Learning Crystal 24:20 - Building a new project and choosing a technology32:20 - Retiring from Ruby Conf Brazil

Picks: Toastmasters International (Jason) Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (Jason)(Jason) Figma (Jerome) Ifttt (Jerome) How to Build a Billion Dollar App by George Berkowski(Jerome) Fabio’s blog (Charles) The Twelve Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington (Charles) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks (Fabio) Cosmos by Carl Sagan and Cosmos by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Fabio)Yaer (Fabio)Special Guest: Fabio Akita.
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284 RR React on Rails with Justin Gordon and Rob Wise Nov 02, 2016

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00:55 - Why study React on Rails?

Justin Gordon’s Youtube

04:30 - Redux07:40 - Using React on parts of an app and not the whole11:05 - Jsx, Webpack, and Hot Module Reloading

React-webpack-rails-tutorial

16:05 - Integrating React with Ruby on Rails19:55 - Libraries25:05 - Is React on Rails automatic?

React on Rails Website

28:30 - Server rendering30:55 - Gaps between server rendering and page loading34:00 - Decision trees: Angular or React

Email justin@shakacode.com for an email to the React on Rails slack channel

35:40 - Why choose React?

ShakaCode

38:15 - Choosing a front-end framework

“React on Rails, 2000+ Stars” by Justin Gordon

39:55 - Using React and Rails for production-level projects43:00 - ShakaCode and Coaching

Startup Coaching Plan

Picks: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (Jason) The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth (Jason) Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erikson (Jerome) How to Build a Billion Dollar App by George Berkowski (Jerome) Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (Charles)School breaks (Charles) Boy Scouts of America (Charles) Friends and Guests (Justin)Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets(Justin) Mast.ly (Justin) The Paleo Blueprint by Mark Sisson (Justin) Justin Gordon’s Twitter (Justin) Dave Asprey’s podcast, Bulletproof Executive Radio (Justin) The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (Justin) Dr.Boolean’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (Rob) Jafar Husain’s tutorials (Rob) Tesseract - Of Matter (Rob)Special Guests: Justin Gordon and Rob Wise.
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283 RR Is Ruby Dying? Oct 26, 2016

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00:25 - Why Ruby is still relevant06:30 - How we got started with Ruby08:20 - Why are people saying Ruby is dying?13:00 - The Ruby community15:00 - Debating the “waste of time” argument20:05 - Learning other languages23:50 - The “pie”27:05 - Revitalizing Ruby38:15 - Advice for the worrierPicks: Angular for Rails Developers by Jason Swett (Jerome) Vets Who Code (Jason) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Jason) Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin (Jason)Going outside (Jason) Gitlab (Charles) Devchat Conferences (Charles) The 12 Week Year and spreadsheet (Charles) Devchat hangout/webinar (Charles)
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282 RR Angular on Rails with Jason Swett Oct 19, 2016

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00:42 - Introducing Jason Swett

Angular on Rails
Use the code “rubyrogues” to get $10 off your purchase
Twitter
Email: jason@angularonrails.com

2:20 - Angular or Rails?4:40 - Real-time data modeling9:00 - Angular CLI11:15 - Structuring Angular and Rails apps16:50 - Should beginners learn Angular or Rails first?19:50 - Building apps and tying Angular and Rails together

25:00 - Angular on Rails feedback28:00 - What’s the hardest part of integrating Angular and Rails?31:00 - Why invest in Angular when it evolves so fast?33:35 - Why did Jason write his book?

37:50 - How to get the most out of the book42:40 - Panelist Jerome Hardaway

Picks: Tour of Heroes Tutorial (Jerome) General Assembly (Jerome) DreamForce (Jerome) Adventures in Angular Podcast (Charles and Jason) Angular Remote Conf videos (Charles) NgBook (Jason) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Jason) The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen Covey (Jason)Special Guest: Jason Swett.
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281 RR Take My Money with Noel Rappin Oct 12, 2016

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00:30 - Introducing Noel Rappin

Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin (Ebook only)
Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web by Noel Rappin, (physical copy pre-order link)
Website
Twitter

1:00 - Paid gateways for apps6:05 - Why write Take My Money?8:45 - Getting tripped up on simple arithmetic11:55 - Troubleshooting gateway system failures

Runscope

21:45 - Managing administrative roles

Paper Trail

25:55 - Reporting29:00 - Techniques for testing your system33:25 - Overarching themes in Take My Money Picks: The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (Noel) Flash Forward podcast by Rose Eveleth (Noel)Police officers (Charles) Webinar Jam (Charles)Special Guest: Noel Rappin.
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