Framework Friends

Feb 21 2023 11 ep. 48 mins 21

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Aaron Francis and Andrew Culver compare notes on their experiences as developers in the Laravel and Ruby on Rails ecosystems.

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Video

Feb 21 2023 42 mins

Aaron and Andrew talk about recent experiments in video production including Aaron's upcoming MySQL for Developers course and Andrew's YouTube videos from The Rails SaaS Conference.Aaron's "confidence monitor""Launching a SaaS in Nine Hours using Rails and Bullet Train"ScreenflowRecutThe complete collection of Aaron's short form Twitter videos seasoned with dank but unrelated memes

Testing

Jan 17 2023 49 mins

Aaron and Andrew chat about automated software testing, including the tools in both Laravel and Rails but also sharing thoughts on testing DSLs, test-driven development, headless browser tests, running tests in parallel, experiments building a CI service, and point-and-click test authoring.

APIs

Dec 12 2022 56 mins

Andrew and Aaron compare how APIs are typically built in Rails and Laravel and generally discuss API versioning, pagination, standards like OpenAPI (formerly Swagger,) documentation, JSON:API, and client libraries, before ending with a collaborative twist that Aaron didn't realize he was participating in.

Conferences

Nov 19 2022 42 mins

Aaron and Andrew reunite to unpack our recent conference experiences, Aaron's at Full Stack Europe in Antwerp, Belgium and Andrew's organizing The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California. We also discuss Aaron's feature in GitHub's The ReadME Project and getting retweeted by Microsoft.

Remix with Kent C. Dodds

Jun 27 2022 56 mins

We're joined by a React legend to learn more about Remix and his journey from fan to co-founder and their journey from commercial offering to open-source. We talk about his personal mission to "help people make the world a better place through quality software" and his personal brand. We also discuss The Network Chasm and what it means to be "center stack." Karaoke comes up.

(Extra) RailsConf Podcast Panel

Jun 20 2022 41 mins

As mentioned in the last episode, we're sharing in our feed the RailsConf Podcast Panel where Andrew represented Framework Friends. If you're interested in some insider discussion from the Rails community, enjoy! Otherwise, stay tuned for a new episode of Framework Friends later this week!

The Rails SaaS Conference

Jun 10 2022 32 mins

After a short recap of our experience at RailsConf in Portland, Aaron asks Andrew for the full scoop on The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles this October, which sold out shortly after being announced.

Phoenix and LiveView with Chris McCord

May 20 2022 56 mins

Joined by our first guest, we learn more about Phoenix and the legendary LiveView from their creator. We also chat about Chris' journey from Ruby to Elixir, the support he receives from Fly.io, and their deployment product. We also stumble into some hot takes.

Laravel Nova 4.0

Apr 29 2022 49 mins

We talk about Stripe Capital and Tuple's $200K experiment and do a deep dive talking about Laravel Nova 4.0, reflecting on the paid add-on business model within open-source and the importance of developer experience.

Bullet Train Goes Open-Source

Apr 06 2022 61 mins

We debrief about Sin City Ruby and Aaron asks Andrew questions about the technical, product, and business details of the announcement that Bullet Train is now available as an open-source Rails-based framework with a paid "Pro" tier, while also sharing insights from earlier, similar developments in the Laravel product line.