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19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen)
19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen)

Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest.

RSpec 3 adds composable …

10 years, 10 months ago

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18: This Podcast is Rigged (But Not Animated)
18: This Podcast is Rigged (But Not Animated)

Sean and Derek discuss rails asset dependencies before diving into an overview of animation techniques and C extensions.

Rails Assets Gemify Assets …

10 years, 10 months ago

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17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron)
17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron)

We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies.

Sam Saffron Discourse rack-mini-profiler stackprof Ruby…

10 years, 10 months ago

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16: Wizards Are Hard to Kill
16: Wizards Are Hard to Kill

Grab Bag! Derek and Sean talk about math, augmented reality, RailsConf wrap up, Minimum Viable Products, Accessibility...

Homography Isomorphism Hom…

10 years, 11 months ago

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15: Might As Well Be About Trains (Sarah Mei)
15: Might As Well Be About Trains (Sarah Mei)

Sean, Derek, and Sarah Mei talk about conference speaking, refactoring, and OO vs FP problems.

Sarah Mei What Your Conference Proposal Is Missing Co…

10 years, 11 months ago

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14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson)
14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson)

This week, we're joined by DHH and discuss microservices, monoliths, shared abstractions, and the fate of Action Cable.

DHH's Keynote Microservices …

10 years, 11 months ago

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13: Begrudging Applause (Aaron Patterson)
13: Begrudging Applause (Aaron Patterson)

Live from RailsConf, Aaron Patterson joins the show to talk about Rails 5, Rack 2, Contributing to Open Source, and cats. We also field audience ques…

10 years, 11 months ago

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12: A Poor Man's binding.pry
12: A Poor Man's binding.pry

Derek and Sean talk about naming, debugging, and the anxiety of conference talks.

Sean fixes Android tooling in one line. Martin Fowler on naming ob…

11 years ago

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11: Form-ing Opinions
11: Form-ing Opinions

Sean and Derek talk about the state of Android tooling, refactoring journeys, and an approach to rails form objects.

Dalvik executables limited to 6…

11 years ago

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10: I Don't Get Functional Programming
10: I Don't Get Functional Programming

Pat Brisbin joins Derek to discuss the many advantages of Haskell programming.

note: at 27:01 Pat says "referential integrity" when he meant "referen…

11 years, 1 month ago

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