The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 283: 283: Kill All Mutants with Dave Aronson Aug 22, 2019

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How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.

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Episode 282: 282: Rails on Windows is Fabulous with Scott Hanselman Aug 12, 2019

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Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2.

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Episode 281: 281: Automating & Shipping Value with Sean Devine Aug 06, 2019

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Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.

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Episode 280: 280: Past Rubies, Google Pay and Turbolinks! Jul 23, 2019

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Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and why Turbolinks can be awesome!

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Episode 279: 279: Scaling & Training Rails with Anand Dhillon Jul 17, 2019

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Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.

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Episode 278: 278: Introducing Sorbet: A Ruby Typechecker with Paul Tarjan Jul 10, 2019

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Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby.

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Episode 277: 277: Caching GraphQL with Michael Kelly Jul 03, 2019

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Joining Brittany this week is Michael Kelly, a Senior Engineer with Stackshare and a passionate contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is the author of the graphql-cache gem, a caching plugin for graphql-ruby.

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Episode 276: 276: Introducing ActionView::Component with Joel Hawksley Jun 25, 2019

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Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core.

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Episode 275: 275: ITP 2.1, Github is on Fire and Mechanical Keyboards with Brittany & Nick Jun 19, 2019

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Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards.

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Episode 274: 274: Investing In Your Side Hustle with Scott Pio Jun 11, 2019

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Roller Derby Nation is a growing network, dedicated to serving roller derby fans and their skaters. Brittany (Norma Skates) invited its founder, Scott Pio (Veggie Delight), on to the show to discuss dedication to your side hustle and how multi-tenancy can extend your application's reach.

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