[This episode from February 2024 was never published and recently discovered]

In today’s episode, Andrew kicks things off with a rant about tackling developer experience tasks at Podia, wrestling with GitHub actions, and Heroku deployment woes. Then the conversation takes a turn to the importance of debugging, the power of bash scripting, and the challenges of naming in programming, with Chris mentioning DHH’s insights from a live stream. They discuss Chris’s travel plans for RubyConf in Australia, other conferences coming up, and reminisce about their childhood love for trains and Thomas the Tank Engine. The episode wraps up with Chris and Andrew sharing advice and tips on writing conference proposals (CFPs) and the value of diverse speaking styles and personalities for engaging an audience. Tune in now to hear more!

Links

• ONCE/Campfire
• debug.rb
• GitHub Copilot
• RubyConf Australia-April 11-12, 2024
• RailsConf 2024-May 7-9, 2024-Detroit, MI
• Sarah Mei-“What Your Conference Proposal is Missing”
• Ruby for All Podcast-Episode 50: The Art of Conference Speaking with Kevin Murphy
• [SFM] We like to party (YouTube)
• Ultimate Skyrim (YouTube)
• RailsConf 2023-Teaching Capybara Testing- An Illustrated Adventure by Brandon Weaver (YouTube)

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

Chris and David cover a lot of ground in this episode, starting with Chris’s experience teaching a Rails workshop for Frontend Masters in Minneapolis. Along the way, they dive deep into Rails authentication, Devise, Authlogic migrations, Chris’s ReviseAuth gem, password security, session handling, and the hard tradeoffs of maintaining open source tools. The episode wraps with big podcasting news: David is taking over The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Minnebar
• Ruby 4.0.5 Released
• ReviseAuth
• The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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

Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a detour through Dungeon Crawler Carl, Rails World tickets, and conference travel before diving into developer tooling, package manager security, and the latest Ruby ecosystem updates. The conversation covers everything from Hotwire-style UI patterns and pnpm/Corepack setup to Jeff Dickey’s new package manager, the RubyGems malicious package attack, Ruby 4.0.4, Shopify’s Rubydex, Claude/Codex chatter, and the increasingly strange future of AI agents and delivery robots. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Dungeon Crawler Carl
• Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG + Unstoppable
• Maciej Mensfeld X
• Aube
• Jeff Dickey X
• en.dev
• The Hacker News- RubyGems Suspends New Signups After Hundreds of Malicious Packages Are Uploaded
• One engine, many tools—Introducing Rubydex (Rails at Scale)
• Ruby 4.0.4 Released
• Frontend Masters Workshop with Chris Oliver: Getting Started with Rails

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