In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew discuss the recent Google Cloud Platform and Heroku outages, sharing personal experiences of system impacts and recovery strategies. The conversation shifts to technical insights, including a deep dive into Rails ‘direct’ routes and their routing helper capabilities. They also touch on the latest performance enhancements in Ruby 3.3, such as Embedded TypedData Objects and their impacts. Also, they explore parsing Ruby code with Prism and chat about productivity hacks, upcoming RailsConf plans, parenting chaos, and dreams of launching their own MTV show. Hit the download button now!

Links

• Judoscale - Remote Ruby listener gift
• Implementing Embedded TypedData Objects (Rails at Scale)
• Supercharging Ruby with Embedded TypedData Objects (Ruby Stack News)
• Prism Ruby parser
• RailsConf 2025, Philadelphia, PA, July 8-10

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• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

In this fun episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew dive into a wide-ranging chat that kicks off with Nintendo’s new Switch 2, dentist nightmares, and the chaos of Mario Party. From there, it transitions into some highly practical Rails development discussions, including a slick new implementation for MetaTags in Jumpstart, the headaches and benefits of JSON-LD for SEO, and an overdue breaking change to the Pay gem. There’s also a smart e-ink countdown widget built with Ruby called TRMNL and updates on RailsConf and Rocky Mountain Ruby. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Schema.org Course
• MetaTags
• JSON-LD
• RailsConf 2025-Philadelphia, PA, July 8-10
• Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025-Boulder, CO, October 6-7
• RailsWorld 2025-Amsterdam, NL, September 4-5
• TRMNL
• TRMNL-GitHub
• Pay Gem
• Rails Assets
• How to use the new action_ text-trix gem (GoRails YouTube)
• Honeybadger
• Nintendo Switch 2

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew catch up on recent travels and food experiences, including the best Philly cheesesteaks they’ve ever had. The conversation shifts towards development topics, particularly testing challenges and solutions in Ruby on Rails, featuring discussions about emoji pickers, asset pipelines, and the prawn library. Chris shares updates on acquiring an old Rails app, One Month, and future plans for this project. They also explore various development hiccups and solutions, including using libraries for faster system tests and streamlining asset pipelines. The episode wraps up with insights into new tools like an official Postgres extension for VS Code and plans for future video content on their platform.

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• One Month
• Running Rails System Tests With Playwright Instead of Selenium by Justin Searls
• Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft
• Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter