Podcast Episodes

29: Django Unchained (Mike Burns)

Sean is joined by Mike Burns to discuss what Ruby and Rails can learn from Python and Django.

Mike Burns Python's map Django George's Sleeping with …

10 years, 8 months ago

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28: Minisode 0.1.1

Did you know Rails has no integration test suite? What could go wrong?

ActionController::Parameters no longer inherits from Hash

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10 years, 8 months ago

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27: I've Got 29.97 Problems (and codecs are some)

Sean and Derek circle back on HTTP before diving into unsafe rust, and finally the merits of a small standard library.

HTTP2 implementation status l…

10 years, 8 months ago

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26: My Cache is in the Cloud

This week, Sean and Derek discuss performance and inheriting code. In a stroke of complete madness, Derek decides that turbolinks isn't that bad.

Sp…

10 years, 8 months ago

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25: Throwing the Schema Out With the SOAPy Bathwater (Gordon Fontenot)

Derek is joined by Gordon Fontenot for a discussion of the JSON API specification, problems consuming it from Swift, and the future of functional pro…

10 years, 9 months ago

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24: You Look Good in a Lab Coat (Richard Schneeman)

Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues big and small.

This episode of …

10 years, 9 months ago

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23: Why Did They Call it Rust?!

Sean gives Derek a tour of Rust, a new systems language from Mozilla.

This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by:

Code School: Entertaining onli…

10 years, 9 months ago

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22: No Capes! (Eileen Uchitelle)

Eileen Uchitelle joins the show to discuss performance improvements to ActiveRecord, speeding up integration tests, and contributing to or running op…

10 years, 9 months ago

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21: The "Best" Canada (Godfrey Chan)

Rails Core Team member Godfrey Chan joins the show to demystify rails bug hunting and contributing.

Godfrey's RailsConf talk: Prying Open The Black …

10 years, 9 months ago

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20: Intentionally Excruciatingly Painful

We're joined by Josh Clayton to discuss our differing strategies on testing view behavior, strategies for dealing with brittle feature specs, and wha…

10 years, 10 months ago

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