The Ruby on Rails Podcast Elise Shaffer and Brian Mariani

Rails 7 and Hotwire have completely revolutionized server side Rails apps. Developers can now get much more reactivity with way less javascript, less tooling, and simpler deployments. You’ve probably heard a lot about Rails 7.1 and Hotwire. Maybe you’re even using it in production? Ayush Newatia joins the show to talk about his new book, The Rails and Howtire Codex.


Show Notes
Radioactive Toy - https://radioactivetoy.tech
Rails and Hotwire Codex - https://railsandhotwirecodex.com
Folly Ayush on Ruby Social - https://ruby.social/@ayush
Listen to Ayush on The Just A Spec Podcast - https://justaspec.show
Rails and Hotwire Codex Link https://railsandhotwirecodex.com/

RailsConf is coming up fast! The program committee has released the schedule and keynote speakers. Ufuk Kayserilioglu joins the show to talk about the program and Ruby Central


Show Notes



Kevin's blog post about RailsConf https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/tracks-not-at-railsconf-2024/
RailsConf website & registration https://railsconf.org/


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You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.


Show Notes



Extism repo: https://github.com/extism/extism
WebAssembly MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly
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Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked from the increased demands of the smaller teams. I know some of my listeners have experienced burnout. I myself have had a recent experience with burnout that took months to recover from. Dr. Katy Cook joins the show to teach us more about Burnout.


Show Notes
The Psychology of Silicon Valley (2019)
APA Studies on Burnout


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Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing conferences and contributing to the community. The recent changes in governance have led t some exciting things on the horizon. Adarsh joined the show to talk about what's going to happen with Ruby Central in 2024.


Show Notes
Ruby Central Website - https://rubycentral.org/
Ruby Conf Musical Number Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhbX6dS6x0
RubyConf Recap Survey Results - https://rubycentral.org/p/c9897883-2135-4704-b53a-a4111ca272f3/
Ruby Central Get Involved Page - https://rubycentral.org/leadership/
Ruby Central contact page - contact@rubycentral.org
RubyConferences.org - https://rubyconferences.org
Adarsh's Email - adarsh@rubycentral.org
RailsConf Tickets - http://railsconf.org
Sam Giddin's Stat of the RubyGems Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hea-x7LHO9Y
Announcment of Sam's AWS Security Residency - https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-welcomes-new-software-engineer-in-residence-sponsored-by-aws/


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Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT inside Shopify. YJIT is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby written in Rust. Dr. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert joined the show to talk about YJIT


Show Notes
YJIT Website
Maxime on X https://twitter.com/Love2Code (❤️→ λ)
Maxime’s Github https://github.com/maximecb