Rails with Jason

In this episode I talk with Joel Hawksley, Software Engineer at GitHub, about GitHub's ViewComponent library.Links:ViewComponent.orgPrimer ViewComponents

In this episode I talk with Matt Swanson about the Shopify Upgrow guide (since taken offline), which recently made a small splash in the Rails community. Matt and I share our candid opinions regarding what in the Upgrow guide we agree with and what we disagree with.Links:Boring RailsMatt Swanson on TwitterUpgrow mirrorMatt's article, "All software advice is wrong"

In this episode I talk with Tom Rossi about how to keep Rails apps organized. Tom and I talk about POROs, "service objects", /lib vs. /app, the "slots" Rails gives you, and the limits of Rails' ability to help organize application code.Tom Rossi on TwitterHigher Pixels

In this episode I talk with Matt Swanson about how to debug systematically rather than haphazardly.Links:A systematic methodology for solving any programming problemBoringRails.comMatt Swanson on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Noah Gibbs, author of Rebuilding Rails, about debugging techniques, the scientific method, a useful concept called "the presenting complaint", and more.Links:Noah Gibbs on TwitterRebuilding Rails

If you've ever experienced the pain of having woefully underestimated something, this episode is for you. In this one I talk with Matt Swanson about how to estimate accurately as well as why I'm not a big fan of story points.Links:BoringRails.comMatt Swanson on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Ernesto Tagwerker, founder of FastRuby.io, about the topic of code quality. We discuss what code quality means as well as some tools that can assist with giving code quality proper attention.Links:FastRuby.ioErnesto Tagwerker on TwitterRuboCopReekSkunk

In this episode I talk with Anthony Campolo, RedwoodJS Core Advocate. Anthony and I talk about what RedwoodJS is as well as RedwoodJS's components, React, GraphQL, and Prisma.Links:RedwoodJS HomepageRedwoodJS ForumRedwoodJS DiscordAnthony Campolo on TwitterAnthony Campolo on GitHubAnthony Campolo's Blog

In this episode I talk with Dave Copeland, author of Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails, about organizing Rails code. Dave and I discuss why although many Rails developers are used to it, putting code in Active Record models isn't always the best move. We also share the various tactics we prefer to use in order to keep Rails code organized.Links:Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on RailsDave Copeland on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Mike Rogers about how to Dockerize Rails applications. We talk about the difference between Dockerizing for development and Dockerizing for production, mount volumes, performance trade-offs, and more.Links:Mike's Ruby Starter KitsMike Rogers on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Jason Charnes about StimulusReflex. Jason and I cover what StimulusReflex is as well as some of the core concepts of the technology.Links:Interactive Rails with StimulusReflexJason Charnes on TwitterOfficial StimulusReflex documentation

In this episode I talk with Yoseph Radding, founder of Shuttl, about Courier Configuration Manager.Links:Courier Configuration ManagerShuttl

In this episode I talk with Tyler Williams, Software Engineer at Home Game Poker, about the contents of a blog post he recently wrote entitled Heuristics for Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. Tyler and I discuss some of the ideas in his blog post, most of which came from Sandi Metz's book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR).Links:Tyler's blog postIntro to logical arguments for programmers

In this episode I talk with Nate Berkopec, author of The Complete Guide to Rails Performance. Nate and I discuss Puma, front-end performance and building command-line interface (CLI) apps.Links:SpeedshopNate Berkopec on Twitter

In this episode I talk with Molly Struve, Site Reliability Engineer at Forem, about a variety of topics including performance, monitoring, types of incidents, dividing time between incident response and preventative work, and, of course, horses.Links:Foremdev.toMolly Struve on Twittermolly@dev.to

This is another How I'd Build It episode, where listeners send in their feature requirements and we discuss them on the show. In this one we talk about a sailing application where there's a need to keep track of whether members' payments are up-to-date. Adam and I also talk about the YAGNI principle as well as why it's not possible to have high-quality code without tests.Links:Small Batches PodcastYAGNIHow I'd Build It Submission Form

It's commonly accepted that it's better to deploy frequently than to only deploy once in a while. However, an obstacle to achieving this ideal is when you have a long-running feature that can't be released until it's all the way done. In this episode Matt Swanson and I talk about the solution to this problem: release toggles, also known as feature flags.Links:Matt Swanson on TwitterBoring RailsMartin Fowler's Feature Toggles Article

In this episode I talk with CJ Avilla, Developer Advocate at Stripe about integrating Stripe with web applications using Stripe Checkout. We also digress into mechanical keyboards and the challenges of keeping APIs up to date.Links:Stripe Checkout DocsSample of Stripe Developer Office HoursCJ Avilla on TwitterCJ's CODE KeyboardStripe Developers on TwitterStripe Developer ResourcesStripe IRC ChannelStripe Support

In this episode I talk with Adam Hawkins about determining what tools you need for a project. Where should you host? Should you use Docker? Kubernetes? Ansible? We touch on some general DevOps principles along the way.Links:Small Batches Podcast

In this episode I put Noah Gibbs on the spot and ask him how he'd build a certain doctor scheduling feature that I had to build for a real production application.Links:Codefol.ioNoah Gibbs on Twitter