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The Ruby Blend

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The Ruby Blend is a Ruby focused podcast bringing you panel discussions, guest interviews, and much more to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the Ruby development community mixed with sprinkles from other developer communities.

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Episodes

  1. Goodbye, for now

    A short episode where Andrew Mason reveals that the show has come to an end. Thank you for all your support! Show Links Remote Ruby ★ Transistor.fm is now hosting an archive of the podcast for us. Learn how to start your own podcast!

  2. Episode 21: Do you really need two cans of Play-Doh?

    The Ruby Blend - Episode 21 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Dave had a great idea for our topic today, which we'll be talking about our development setups, our environments, and some of the equipment we are using. Dave tells us about Elgato Steam Deck that he's getting soon and pingVerse. We will…

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  3. Episode 20: The Service Object Show

    The Ruby Blend - Episode 20 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! It's been awhile and it sure feels good to back in the swing of things! Today, we have a new panelist with us, Dave Kimura, who's been doing Ruby for quite some time, as well as doing the Drifting Ruby screencast for over five years now. On...

  4. Episode 19: Metaprogramming

    The Ruby Blend - Episode 19 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today we have a new panelist with us, Eric Berry, who was the founder of CodeFund, and has worked with Andrew and Nate for a while. On this episode the guys will discuss Metaprogramming. What is it and how does it work? We will also learn…

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  5. Episode 18: Interviewing

    The Ruby Blend - Episode 18 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! The guys catch up on what's been going on this week. Ron has been taking an insurance class with his work to learn the ins and outs of the insurance industry, Nate's been busy working with Code Fund becoming an independent company, and Andrew...

  6. Episode 17: Open sourcing a Ruby gem with Brittany Martin

    The Ruby Blend - Episode 17 Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today's episode, we have a special guest, Brittany Martin, who is Lead Web Developer for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, where she is part of a team that develops the non-profits ticketing and festival web application and is also the host…

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  7. Episode 16: Playbook Thirty-nine with Nick Haskins

    Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Nick Haskins, who works as a full-time solo Dev for CG Cookie and a year later he launched Blender Market. Both sites were started on WordPress but eventually outgrew the platform. Without any prior experience with Ruby on…

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  8. Episode 15: Rails Testing Tools and Best Practices with Jason Swett

    Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today's episode is all about testing! We have special guest, Jason Swett, who is the host of, "Rails with Jason Podcast" and author of, "Rails Testing For Beginners." If you've had very little or no testing experience, don't be afraid to listen to this…

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  9. Episode 14: Projects, Projects, Projects!!

    Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! In this episode, the guys talk about new and exciting things they've been working on. Nate starts out by talking about how he paired up with Jason Charnes of Podia and Remote Ruby, working on some great things on Stimulus Reflex. Andrew discusses a cool…

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  10. Episode 13: Wait, you want to lint commit messages?!?

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guests None this week. Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:15] Ron talks about the importance of architecture, the way we architect our apps, since he started working at Kin, a home insurance company. He asks the guys what they think about architecture…

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  11. Episode 12: The State of the Rails Community with Julian Rubisch

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guests Julian Rubisch Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:00:38] Julian tells us all about himself and his background. He also tells us how long he's been programming professionally and with Ruby on Rails. [00:04:24] Nate is wondering what Julian's observation is…

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  12. Episode 11: Open Source Funding and CodeFund with Eric Berry

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guests Eric Berry Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:01:12] Eric tells us the story of how he found the inspiration for CodeFund as a company. [00:09:24] Nate asks Eric what kind of resistance he had at the beginning from the developers that he was pitching his…

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  13. Episode 10: Parentheses and typosquatting

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guests None Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:00:41] Andrew announces that Ruby 2.4 is no longer supported so get off of it and upgrade! [00:02:32] Ron had some fun DevOps to share about with Digital Ocean, which actually weren't that fun, and you'll find...

  14. Episode 9: ViewComponent at GitHub with Joel Hawksley

    Panelists Andrew Mason Guest Panelists Chris Oliver Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:13] Joel starts off by saying it's an exciting time for the project with all the changes going on and he discusses some of these changes. He also talks about why View Component is not going to be in Rails 6.1 and...

  15. Episode 8: Tests and Webpacker

    Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:03:13] GitHub sponsors starts the talk on this episode, and how a few people have reached out about Stimulus Reflex asking how they can support the project and the various contributors. Ron shares what he's done.…

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  16. Episode 7: Static Sites and Testing

    Summary Nate, Ron, and Andrew stay quarantined along with the rest of the nation. Ron is happy he has snacks, so he's good! In this episode, the guys talk about Gatsby, Frontend JavaScript, Static Site Generation, and testing frameworks. Also, find out why Ron and Andrew affectionately refer to...

  17. Episode 6: Working from Home

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Ron Cooke Guest None this week Sponsor Linode Show Notes [00:02:25] Nate asks Ron if his new company is using Rails like his last job. Ron explains how things like deploys are much easier and fast to do now, the differences in traffic, and the use of…

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  18. Episode 5: Joined by Chris Oliver

    Panelists Andrew Mason Nate Hopkins Guest Chris Oliver Show Notes [00:01:37] Chris talks about how he discovered Ruby and began developing with it. It started with him wanting to build websites. [00:05:05] Active resource is mentioned and what it did. [00:08:12] Chris talks about IRC Bots that...

  19. Episode 4: Components, HAML vs ERB, and Design Systems

    Panelists Ron Cooke Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:00:42] The guys discuss what they know about view component which is a component type library that GitHub was working on which was upstreamed into Rails and released with Rails 6.1. [00:01:18] Andrew mentions Joel Hawksley gave…

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  20. Episode 3: HEY, Productivity, Turbolinks, and Meetings

    Sponsored By: Linode Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [01:32:15] Nate brings up Basecamp 3 and the new Hey! Menu, an email client competitor. Nate REALLY hopes it can replace Slack for him as he is tired of the constant notifications which mess with…

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  21. Episode 2: Editors, Pairing, RailsConf, and RPC

    Sponsored By: Linode Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:46:14] In this episode, Ron talks about “blending” with Python as he updates services to Python 3. Also, he talks about what he’s bumping into as they go from 2.7 to 3 which included having to…

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  22. Episode 1: Hello, World!

    Sponsored By: Panelists Ron Cooke Nate Hopkins Andrew Mason Guest None this week Show Notes [00:00:00] In this episode, we’ll be digging deeper into the Ruby trends, how the Ruby conference went down, and how our panelists got into programming. Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Ruby Blend is a Ruby focused podcast bringing you panel discussions, guest interviews, and much more to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the Ruby development community mixed with sprinkles from other developer communities.

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The Ruby Blend is a Ruby focused podcast bringing you panel discussions, guest interviews, and much more to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the Ruby development community mixed with sprinkles from other developer communities.

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