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The Future of Ruby using Blockchain and Building Tomorrow's Interfaces - RUBY 560
Wearable technology, Web 3.0, augmented reality, and other emerging technologies are poised for shifting the future for DevOps. Today on the show, the panel discusses how the future of Ruby can adapt to make these changes a reality. In this episode… Wearable tech Virtual reality Web 3.0 Blockchains Non-fungible tokens React native Dragon ruby and rails The future for Ruby Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Charles- Antidote Charles- - Top End Devs Charles- Ready Player One: A Novel Dave- Black Shark RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard LED Backlit Wired Keyboard with Blue Switches, Fully Programmable, Anti-Ghosting 104 Keys for Desktop PC, Sixgill K2 Dave- Beat the Parents John- Ruby Weekly John- Salsas | Herdez Luke- RailsConf 2022 - The pitfalls of realtime-ification by Vladimir Dementyev Luke- Agile Web Development with Rails 7
How to Get Your Rails Models and Routes into Your Front End Framework - RUBY 559
Today on the show, Máximo Mussini shares how your front-end framework can benefit from integrating rails models and routes concurrently. Topics they discuss today include everything from complex structures with serializers to generating JS from rails routes. In this episode… Advantages of serializers Contact serializers Parse float and typescripts Complex structures with serializers Path helpers in JS Generating JS from rails routes Typed interface files configurations Types and Ruby Sponsors Avo Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Links Generating TypeScript interfaces from Ruby serializers 2 Generating JS functions to make request from Rails routes 2 GitHub: ElMassimo Twitter: @MaximoMussini Picks Charles- Orbis Charles – Top End Devs Meetups Charles – Rails Remote Conference John- Simple Task Management Software for Businesses of All Sizes John- VALORANT: Riot Games' competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooter Luke- Introduction Luke- Decameron | work by Boccaccio Máximo- Recording Your Terminal to SVG | platformOS Docs Máximo- Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith Valentino- Co-ops: On Sparking Innovation at Doximity Valentino- Ruby Evolution Valentino- why the lucky stiff - Wikipedia
Bidirectional Code Generation - RUBY 558
Imagine a tool that lets you write templates that can generate code, but also parse that code back into the initial variables. Depending on how flexible your templates are, it can even parse code that has been modified by hand after generation. Today on the show, the panel interviews Lucas Luitjes, creator of Monocle, the tool that allows for this kind of integration. In this episode… What is bidirectional code generation Visual rails editor prototype How does the program work, step by step Parsing results from snippets Multi-node placeholders Utilizing the erb2builder library Ruby security features Connect with Lucas via email: lucas@snootysoftware.com Sponsors Avo Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Lucas Luitjes Luitjes IT | Monocle: bidirectional code generation Twitter: lucasluitjes Picks Charles- Just One | Board Game - BoardGameGeek Charles- 1883 (TV Series 2021–2022) - IMDb Charles- Top End Devs Conferences
Vendor and Infrastructure Lock-In - RUBY 557
Vendor lock-in refers to a situation whereby the cost of switching to a different vendor or platform is so high that you are essentially stuck with the original platform. Today on the show, Charles and Dave share personal stories of how they were forced to continue using a specific platform and what they did to rectify the various scenarios, plus they provide their insights on workaround strategies and how to prevent this from happening in the first place.In this episode… Designing your API to be more agnostic to the vendor Changing environment variables Creating a rails applications with variables in mind How to avoid doing things manually vs. the risk of staying with the current platform Using rails credentials that can be shared for all connections within an infrastructure The risks of putting all your eggs in one software application basket Sponsors Avo Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Picks Charles- Dice Forge Charles- - Top End Devs Charles- 1883 - Yellowstone Prequel (Official Site) Watch on Paramount+ Dave - Hair weaving and spending time with family
RAILS_ENV - Ruby 556
How do you manage your actual rails environment configurations? When you create a new rails application, do you utilize the provided development, test, and production environments, or deviate? Today on the show, Dave and Valentino share their best practices on how they manage their environment variables and workflows within their rails environments. In this episode… Staging environments QA environments Replicating data and sampling strategies Local environment testing Creating Ruby objects Internal API and servers vs. cloud data apps Sponsors Avo Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Dave- RESCUE Outdoor Reusable Fly Trap FTR-SF4 Dave- Glide Gear TMP 100 - Shoot Smartphone/ DSLR Camera to Prompt Tablet/ Smartphone Teleprompter Valentino- rubyatscale Valentino- Cloudflare's wall of lava lamps used to generate randomness for cryptographic key generation
Managing Files and Text in Rails with ActiveStorage and ActionText - Ruby 555
Today on the show, Charles shares about his current projects and inner workings related to managing files and text on his various podcast portals. The panel discusses their history with legacy platforms, their personal tool preferences, and the pros and cons of ActiveStorage and ActionText. In this episode… Paperclip, Attachment_Fu, CarrierWave, ConfiguringFog and other legacy tools FTP for file storage CDN support and preferences Digital ocean servers Trix compared to other rich text editors Sponsors Avo Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Top End Devs Links Add markdown support or state that it will not be added · Issue #626 · basecamp/trix Active Storage Overview - Ruby on Rails Guides Picks Charles- Marvel Legendary Dark City Board Game Charles- Vistaprint US Online Printing: Business Cards, Signage & More John- Glen Scotia 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky : The Whisky Exchange John- Drag and Drop File Uploads with Dropzone and StimulusReflex Valentino- Creating Excellent Developer User Experiences with Github Actions Valentino- Useful utilities and toys over DNS Valentino- doitlive - doitlive 4.2.1 documentation
Build an Admin for Your Rails App Easily with Avo - Bonus
Today Charles talks with Adrian Marin, a developer and founder of Avo, a Ruby on Rails admin framework. Coming with 10 years of developer experience, we discuss how Avo sets itself apart from other typical systems by allowing you to step out of the limitations of DSL and write custom code to meet the needs of each customer. We discuss the three main parts of this fully tested framework, and talk about how you can kick the tires before diving in. With such a wide range of companies successfully utilizing Avo, it’s something definitely worth checking out! Links Avo Admin for Rails Join the Avo Discord Server! GitHub - avo-hq/avo: Configuration-based, no-maintenance, extendable Ruby on Rails admin Twitter: @avo_hq GitHub: adrianthedev ADRIAN MARIN
Speed Up Your Rails App by Lazy Loading Your N+1 Queries - RUBY 554
Wouldn't it be great if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default? Lazy loading is extremely helpful when the list of associations to load is determined dynamically. Today on the show, Charles and Luke interview Evgeniy Demin, Principal Engineer at Toptal. They discuss how you can speed up your processes by lazy loading your N+1 queries, plus various tools to optimize your workflows. In this episode… N+1 queries and cases ActiveRecord methodology Developing new features quickly Various tools and ideas The fulfill method Alternative stacks Ruby Tik-Tok Sponsors Avo Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links LinkedIn: Evgeniy Demin GitHub - djezzzl/n1_loader: Loader to solve N+1 issues for good. Highly recommended for GraphQL API. GitHub - DmitryTsepelev/ar_lazy_preload: Lazy loading associations for the ActiveRecord models GitHub - salsify/goldiloader: Just the right amount of Rails eager loading N+1 problem will never be an issue with N1Loader gem Enhanced ActiveRecord preloading Picks Charles- PODFEST EXPO | Where Your Voice Matters Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game - Guardians of the Galaxy Charles- Vistaprint US Online Printing: Business Cards, Signage & More Charles- Products Charles - Winco Foods Evgeniy - Toptal Evgeniy - Telltale Games Luke- Watch The Lincoln Lawyer | Netflix Official Site
A Novel Type and Effect-Guided Synthesis Tool for Ruby with Sankha Guria - RUBY 553
In recent years, researchers have explored component-based synthesis, which aims to automatically construct programs that operate by composing calls to existing APIs. However, prior work has not considered efficient synthesis of methods with side effects that update a database. Today on the show, Sankha Guria shares about his research in this area, introducing a new approach to type and effect-guided synthesis tools for Ruby. In this episode… What is program synthesis? Lambda functions Generating in Ruby Assistive code generation Benchmarking your code Various tools Co-pilot vs. pilot Scratch software for kids Applying program synthesis to web assemblies How to use program synthesis to generates tests Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links UMD Department of Computer Science RbSyn: Type- and Effect-Guided Program Synthesis GitHub - ngsankha/rbsyn: Program synthesis for Ruby ruby-rogues.md · GitHub Rosette: About Twitter: @ngsankha Sankha Narayan Guria Picks Luke- A better zip bomb Luke- Shawn Hymel – Tiny ML Sankha- Scythe Valentino - Stripe
Development on the Road - RUBY 552
How do you develop remotely in new ecosystems such as when you are on vacation, in a coffee shop, or traveling for business? The panel today discusses various strategies on how to manage these environments to achieve the most efficient outcomes. In this episode… Visual Studio Code and remote SSH extensions VPN tunnel networks Distractions, comfort Internet issues Time zone challenges Squid proxies Personalized keyboards and monitors Smart suitcases Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Conferences | Top End Devs Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined LogMeIn Remote Access | Secure Remote Software AirPods Pro Picks Charles - Unlock! Charles- Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Welcome to Fireside! Charles- Conferences | Top End Devs Dave- ZenScreen MB14AC｜Monitors｜ASUS Global Dave - Meshilicious (mesh case) Luke- GitHub - evrencoskun/TableView Luke- GitHub - jeremyevans/rodauth John- Anker PowerCore III Elite 25600 mah 87W USB-C PD Portable Charger Black A1291H11-1 - Best Buy John- Railsconf 2022
Unfinished Business - RUBY 551
Unfinished technology, unfinished products, unfinished gems, unfinished concepts, unfinished code, unfinished libraries, and more. In software development, everyone has those projects that never get finished or ever get started. Luke and Valentino banter about the various aspects of unfinished business, specifically technology ideas – from creating to implementing to fixing to scrapping. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks Luke- GitHub - scenic-views/scenic: Versioned database views for Rails Valentino- Yamauchi No.10 Family Office Valentino- Elixir's Creator José Valim on the Development of a New Language - Semaphore
Kafka and Karafka Integrations with Maciej Mensfeld - RUBY 550
Making his second appearance on the podcast, Maciej Mensfeld joins the show to share his latest developments with his Kafka and Karafka integrations and libraries. He shares his framework for Kafka 2.0, his personal approach to Rails, and how to integrate Kafka and Karafka most effectively. The panel also discusses regulation and security risks with open-source libraries for developers. About this Episode…1. What is Kafka and Karafka and how are they used?2. The Rails mindset with Kafka and Karafka vs. batches3. What is making Karafka faster?4. Open-source libraries and regulation and security risks Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Apache Kafka GitHub - karafka/karafka: Framework for Apache Kafka based Ruby and Rails applications development. Closer to Code Mitigate Open Source Supply Chain Risks GitHub:Maciej Mensfeld Picks Charles- Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game Charles- FTP and SSH online - upload, edit, copy, move, rename & more Charles - domainagents.com Dave- Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable (3 m) John- Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky | Aberlour John- OS 10 - Wikipedia Maciej- 100 W 1.5 Ohms Resistors Valentino- Lint Filenames - GitHub Marketplace Valentino- GitHub - domialex/Sidekick: A Path of Exile helper Valentino- Scoped gems proposal by mullermp · Pull Request #40 · rubygems/rfcs
Your Tools Matter: Should you change your tooling? - RUBY 549
John Epperson and Luke Stutters discuss developer tools - whether those are the IDEs or Text Editors we use, the gems/libraries we include in our projects, or the OS we make use of. We talk about How we decide to replace our tools, and we talk about a number of tools that we use, the ones that we like and the ones that we wish had better replacements. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Picks John- Turbo, the speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript John- Use Stimulus in your Ruby on Rails app John- Ever:J Clothing line Luke - 2022 State of Software Engineers Luke- GitHub - ankane/pgsync Luke- Panels and System Monitoring - Victron Energy
Be a 1x Developer - RUBY 548
A 10x developer is defined as a professional who is 10 times more productive than other developers with an equal level of expertise in the field. Accordingly, a 10x developer would be able to complete 10 times more tasks and writes 10 times better code than any other competent member of their team working in the same conditions. Does a 10x developer exist, or is this a myth? Today on the show, Charles and Valentino parse out this philosophy by comparing a 1x developer vs. a 10x developer. In this episode…1. What do you expect out of a programmer?2. Increasing work output on a team3. The ego of a programmer4. Being a team player5. Sustaining a steady pace toward a common goal6. The time to fix things is now7. Focusing on your team and output Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links1x ProgrammingPicks Charles - Game pigeon Charles - Signs on the Cheap Charles - Make.com Charles - Podio Charles - Top End Devs Valentino - Ninja Keys Library Valentino - Httpstat.us Valentino - Rust and Ruby Integration
Desktop Apps in Ruby ft. Andy - RUBY 547
Andy Maleh joins the show today to share his opensource desktop development library app for Ruby, Glimmer. Enjoy hearing about why and how Andy created Glimmer, specific applications for implementation, comparison to other apps, DSL framework, using widgets within Glimmer, feature additives, testing, and various compatibilities.In this episode… What is Glimmer and how does it work The story on why Andy built Glimmer The DSL framework Using widgets in Glimmer Distribution for Glimmer Missing features in Glimmer Compatibility with RubyMotion How to test with Glimmer Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Code Master Blog: Glimmer Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 1 - Hello, World! - YouTube GitHub: AndyObtiva/glimmer Picks Charles- Pandemic Iberia Charles- Podio Charles- Make.com Charles- GlobiMail Charles- RightSignature Charles- TopEndDevs | Conferences Dave- StickerMule John- Avocados John- GitHub: ankane/pretender Luke- PwnFunction - YouTube Special Guest: Andy Maleh.Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.