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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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

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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

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In this episode of Remote Ruby, Andrew and Chris discuss the frustrations of working with React and the advantages of using Hotwire. They also talk about upcoming plans, including Andrew's retreat to Philadelphia and Lancaster, and the new features they've been working on, like an inbox for notifications. The conversation touches on the complexity of maintaining large Ruby on Rails applications and the new features in the latest Ruby release. Chris shares his experience at a Post Malone concert, and some tips on maintaining productivity by rearranging workspaces. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Rails World 2025, September 4 & 5, Amsterdam, NL
• ‘Learn Hotwire’ Course
• bunny.net
• Namespaces 101
• Ruby Releases-GitHub

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Andrew and Chris dive into issues with SMTP configuration on new Digital Ocean droplets, their experiences with various email delivery gems like Postmark and Mailtrap and go over some best practices for handling account creation and user associations in Rails applications. The conversation also touches on deployment automation, developing new features like the inbox on Podia, and the importance of having visual tools and browser extensions for effective debugging. They share some lighter moments discussing fun side projects, including Andrew's insult generator app and their humorous take on turning everyday developer annoyances into creative gem ideas. The episode wraps up with some Stripe announcements and TV show recommendations.

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Mailtrap
• Hotwire Dev Tools
• ActualDbSchema
• RailsCasts- Episode 288: Billing with Stripe
• ActiveSupport: Allow quick cast Boolean to integer #18552
• Our top product updates from Sessions 2025 (Stripe Blog)
• Developer Insult Generator by Andrew
• Shoresy
• Star Wars: Andor
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew discuss various technical challenges and developments. Chris provides insights into recent updates and debugging issues with Stripe integration, including transitioning from usage records to billing meters. Andrew shares a complicated debugging session involving a mysterious test suite freezing problem on a friend’s computer. They dive into the intricacies of using tools like LLDB and GDB for troubleshooting and explore potential solutions. Chris also leaves us with a cliffhanger that includes an exciting new project!

Links

• Chris Oliver X
• Andrew Mason Bluesky
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Learn Hotwire course
• Hotwire Native
• LLDB Debugger
• GDB
• One Month
• RailsConf- July 8-10, 2025, Philadelphia, PA

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• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew catch up on recent events and dive into their experiences with various conferences. They discuss their travels to Brazil, Philly, Chicago, and Vegas, sharing the highlights and challenges of each trip. The conversation then shifts to technical topics, including insights from the Tropical on Rails conference, live translations, the impressive quality of Hotwire's functionality, and the fun time they had reuniting and hanging out with Jason in Vegas. They also tackle complexities and changes in Stripe's API integration, debating the pros and cons of self-hosting versus using hosted services. Hit the download button now to hear more!

Links

• Chris Oliver X
• Andrew Mason Bluesky
• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• RailsConf-July 8-10, 2025-Philadelphia, PA
• Gosu
• Simplicity- sustainable, humane, and effective software development by Dave Thomas

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• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

This episode of Remote Ruby starts with Andrew and Chris discussing how busy they are this month and how they're managing new feature releases, travel, and bulk recording episodes. They continue answering listener questions from Episode 300, covering key improvements they wish to see in Rails, best practices for hybrid remote work, and methods to inspire teams about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Test-Driven Development (TDD). They share advice on attending Ruby conferences, including how to justify the cost to employers and the immense networking benefits. Lastly, they tackle how freshers can secure remote Ruby jobs and provide tips on writing blog posts to enhance learning and visibility in the developer community. Hit the download button now!

Links

Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift

99 Bottle of OOP by Sandi Metz

Practical Object-Oriented Design (POODR) by Sandi Metz

conventional: comments

Podia

Remote Ruby Podcast-Episode 293: Jason’s Farewell-So Long, and Thanks for All the BETs!

Hatchbox

Kamal

MCP.RB

Josh Branchaud’s TIL (Today I Learned) repo

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