Episodes
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read Action View Overview and discuss templating systems, the difference between Action and Active, and internationalization as a bonus view template feature.Reading for this episode: Action View Overview https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.htmlEileen's Railsconf 2023 Keynote: https://youtu.be/TgNb2_LSMMo?si=ymjnJ7DOvZQDp6vbTailwind and the Femininity of CSS: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-cssHotwiring My...
Published 09/06/23
For this week's episode, Aji and Guest Host Sally Hall discussed Active model, form objects and presenters, APIs as database, and Rails inflectors and translation.
Reading for this episode: Active Model Basics
Published 08/23/23
Aji & guest host Mercedes Bernard talk ORMs & SQL, left outer joins & includes, and strict & eager loading.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Query InterfaceThe Bike Shed episode 358: The Class MethodReading for next episode: Active Model BasicsFind Mercedes online at mercedesbernard.com, on mastodon:
[email protected], or LinkedIn
Published 08/08/23
Aji welcomes guest host and fellow thoughtbotter Dimiter Petrov. Their conversation covers association scope, the thoughtful layout of this section of the guides, polymorphic associations, and association extensions.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Associations
Helvetic Ruby: Ruby conference in Bern, Switzerland, November 24, 2023
Reading for next episode: Active Record Query Interface
Published 07/25/23
For this week's episode, Aji welcomes our very first Guest Host, Sasha Grodzins! Aji & Sasha read about Active Record Callbacks and discuss pitfalls of callbacks, how they are similar to validations, and comments and commit messages as documentation.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Callbacks
5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at Gusto
Ruby Science's chapter on callbacks
Active Record callbacks source code
Aji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue!
Reading for episode...
Published 07/11/23
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read "Active Record Validations" and discuss their most-used validation helpers, how they interpreted the validates_associated section of the Guides, and when not to over-validate.
Reading for this episode: "Active Record Validations"
Time for a Boolean gem
What's in a name (validation)?
Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive Forms
Reading for episode 8: Active Record Callbacks
Published 06/27/23
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina discuss chapters 5 through 9 of "Active Record Migrations". They debate migration file management, and touch on the relationship between end users and application data, and learning complex concepts within Rails' convention over configuration framework.
Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9
thoughtbot's AWS Platform Guide (Flightdeck)
Reading for episode 7: "Active Record Validations"
Published 06/13/23
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 1 through 4 in “Active Record Migrations” and discuss command line generator options, database-level comments, and reverting migrations.
Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 1-4
Reading for episode 6: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9
Published 05/30/23
For this week's episode, Mina is in Japan, the couple read "Active Record Basics" and discuss ORMs, naming conventions and have a special request to you, the listeners.Reading for this episode: "Active Record Basics"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin FowlerMats'z Home ConferenceReading for Episode 5: Chapters 1 - 4 in "Active Record Migrations"
Published 05/17/23
For this week's episode, Mina is in Japan, the couple read "Active Record Basics" and discuss ORMs, naming conventions and have a special request to you, the listeners.Reading for this episode: 'Active Record Basics'Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin FowlerMats'z Home ConferenceReading for Episode 5: Chapters 1 - 4 in "Active Record Migrations"
Published 05/16/23
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 8 through 13 of "Getting Started with Rails". They discussed RailsConf and Ruby Central, refactoring using concerns and partials, semantic HTML, and much more.
Reading for this episode: Chapters 8-13 in "Getting Started with Rails"
Ruby Central (Hit SIGN IN, then SIGN UP)
Brittany Martin & the Ruby on Rails Podcast
Drew Bragg & Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
MDN : The Anchor element
Reading for Episode 4: "Active Record...
Published 05/02/23
For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 5 through 7 of "Getting Started with Rails", covering autoloading, MVC and CRUD. They discuss how little effort it takes to arrive at a simple, but fully functional, Rails application, alternative strategies to the Rails console when debugging in production and much more.
Reading for this episode: Chapters 5-7 in "Getting Started with Rails"
Aji's RailsConf 2023 talk, "Hotwiring My React Brain"
If you're interested in attending RailsConf...
Published 04/18/23
Aji & Mina discuss the first four chapters of the Rails Guides, and uncover that there's so much more going on in these first simple chapters than meets the eye
Build A Blog in 15 (more like 30) Minutes: Webpacker Edition by Sasha Grodzins at RailsConf 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-qY37JIdg0
Reading for Episode 2: Chapters 5-7, "Getting Started with Rails" - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#autoloading
Published 04/04/23
Aji & Mina introduce themselves and discuss what this show is even going to be about. We're reading through the Ruby on Rails Guides page by page, and discussing our takeaways here.
thoughtbot, your expert design and development partner
The Ruby on Rails Guides - What we're calling the "table of contents" and where we'll be drawing our episodes from.
Perusing the Rails Source Code: Alex Kitchens' presentation from Railsconf 2017 that had a big impact on Mina.
Bike Shed episode 203: A...
Published 03/26/23