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Back to EpisodesBehind the Scenes: Developing Podias New Version
Episode 349
Published 12 hours ago
Description
Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling in Rails apps. They also touch on conference season and their upcoming talks. Press download now to hear more!
Links
- Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
- Direct Routes
- Instance Public methods-direct (name, options = {}, &block)
- Instance Public methods-resolve (*args, &block)
- GitHub-Query command for read-only database queries #57156
- App Signal for Hatchbox
- Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, NM
- Frontend Masters Workshop-May 26, 2026-Getting Started with Rails (Chris Oliver)
- Toronto Tech Week- May 25-29, 2026
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