Remote Ruby

[00:00:34] DHH jumps right into telling us what the response has been to Hotwire and how Basecamp has felt about the response.

[00:04:02] DHH talks about a book they published in 2013 and mentions to “wait for the pendulum to come your way,” and how this relates to Hotwire. He also talks about Turbo...

[00:01:20] Nate tells us a little bit about himself, what he does, and a book he wrote. 

[00:02:18] Nate talks about the Rails Performance workshop he released a month ago.

[00:06:02] Jason asks Nate if he has any plans to go back into the in-person training or if he will keep the current format if it’s showing more advantages.

[00:08:03] If you are interested in learning more about performance, Nate shares advice what you should do...

[00:01:41] Jason dropped his StimulusReflex course in early access and he tells us how the initial reception of it is and how he’s feeling about it.

[00:09:21] Andrew explains the differences between Snowpack’s more like Webpacker, and he mentions Skypack and Snowpack pair very nice together...

[00:01:44] Robby tells us who is he and some of things he’s involved with.

[00:02:42] Robby tells us about Z shells being the default on macOS and if more people are using it.

[00:04:04] Since Robby’s been in the Rails Community for a long time, he tells us how things have changed and how he got into Ruby on Rails and Z shell...

[00:00:25] Jason tells us about his busy Black Friday weekend and having to use Rails Autoscale, and Chris mentions Shopify’s graph showing their traffic for the weekend. 

[00:02:51] Jason tells us what’s new in the Ruby on Rails world and mentions RC2, and Chris tested Jumpstart Pro against RC1. Jason talks about something is wrong with his RC and it may be something with the version of Ruby he’s using...

• Hotwire
• The live stream

[00:00:39] Jason starts off by talking about a Rails app he went back to that he built and hasn’t touched since March. 

[00:02:05] Jason upgraded Ruby in Rails and then started the Tailwind 2.0 update and was surprised at how easy it was for “most” things. Chris talked about his moment when he upgraded Jumpstart Pro.

[00:04:27] Chris mentions patching Webpacker to fix the Webpack DevServer changes and it was not his favorite upgrade...

[00:00:47] Jason and Chris talk about modelling friendships in your database models. 

[00:06:56] Chris brings up building teams and inviting people being tricky. 

[00:08:35] Jason talks about using HasFriendship library, which lets you add friendship features to your ActiveRecord models. Chris mentions to Jason about watching a RailsCasts episode on Self-Referential Association by Ryan Bates...

[00:05:05] What’s new in Ruby and Rails Land?  Andrew announces RubyConf 2020 (virtual) is next week.

[00:09:20] Jason spun up a Bridgetown site with Tailwind and said it was fun. Andrew says he’s been playing around with it a lot this week and made a short video on how to add Tailwind, and he went full hog into Snowpack again.

[00:10:12] Jason asks Andrew if he ever gut the Webpack setup in Bridgetown and replace it with a Snowpack setup...

[00:00:34] Jason and Chris chat about voting, election, and COVID. Chris mentions a GitHub repository that posts the election votes in real time. 

[00:9:56] Chris tells us there is good news on the horizon with Ruby 3.0 and Rails 6.1 coming out soon, and the guys chat about the changes.

[00:13:10] Jason is curious on Chris and Andrew’s thoughts on how Turbolinks is going to affect the adoption and the use of StimulusReflex...