Fullstack Ruby Podcast

Dec 18 2024 12 ep. 36 mins 12

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Elevate your Ruby skills. Everywhere. Futuristic Web Dev That’s Fast and Fun! Hosted by Jared White.

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A Casual Conversation with KOW (Karl Oscar Weber) on Camping, Open Source Politics, and More

Dec 18 2024 64 mins

This is a right humdinger of an episode of Fullstack Ruby! I got the chance to talk with Karl Oscar Weber all about the Camping web framework, as well as his Grilled Cheese livestream, working as a freelancer, and how to criticize by creating as a programmer in a world fraught with political upheaval. Great craic, as the Irish say. Links & Show Notes Sign up for the Fullstack R

Designing Your API for Their API (Yo Dawg!)

Oct 15 2024 28 mins

It’s tempting to want to take the simplistic approach of writing “to the framework” or to the external API directly in the places where you need to interface with those resources, but it’s sometimes a much better approach to create your own abstraction layer. Having this layer which sits between your high-level business logic or request/response handling, and the low-level

Ruby un Rails (and Proof of Life Update)

May 05 2024 32 mins

The rumors are true: I became a Ruby developer because of Rails. It’s probably common that folks find a tech stack or framework which offers the features and the community they desire and so learn the language undergirding that stack. Truth is, Ruby did not appeal to me at first and I resisted it! I wanted to remain a PHP developer, damnit! But the industry draw of Rails required

Preact Signals and the Signalize Gem

Mar 14 2023 39 mins

What are signals? What is find-grained reactivity? Why is everyone talking about them on the frontend these days? And what, if anything, can we apply from our newfound knowledge of signals to backend programming? Is it possible to use signals in Ruby? (Yes!) Learn all about signals, the Preact Signals library, and the new Signalize gem right here in the latest episode of Fullstack

8: Hotwiring Multi-Platform Rails Apps with Ayush Newatia

Jan 23 2023 43 mins

Ayush is on the core team of Bridgetown, a specialist in Ruby on Rails and Hotwire app development, and a personal friend. I'm very excited to have him on the show today to talk about all things fullstack web dev, his new book The Rails & Hotwire Codex, and why vanilla is awesome! Links: Bridgetown – Ruby site generator & fullstack frameworkThe Rails & Hotwire CodexAy

7: Ruby on Wasm: Is This the Future?

Jan 11 2023 19 mins

Ruby can now run on Wasm! WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. So…we can now run "real" Ruby in the browser, right? Yes! …and no. Caveat emptor, but nevertheless this is a very

6: How Do You Manage Ruby Application Dependencies?

Sep 07 2022 31 mins

Every Ruby web framework has its own way of configuring itself as well as third-party dependencies. In some cases it's largely up to you, in other cases it's clearly spelled out. There may or may not also be some "magic" involved in requiring gems added to a Gemfile. As a maintainer of Bridgetown, I'm currently working through all these issues as I ready the next major release whic

5: Optimized for Programmer Happiness

Jun 29 2022 29 mins

Ruby is optimized for programmer happiness. What does that even mean? Which programmer? Whose happiness? What if you use Ruby and aren't happy? Does that mean Ruby failed? All this and much more to be covered in today's episode—not a deep dive into a technical topic, but a deep dive into the philosophy of programming, the "Ruby way", OOP, the dangers of monocultures, and the need

4: Design Patterns on the Frontend, History of MVVM, Web Components, and You

Apr 18 2022 36 mins

Design patterns on the frontend: this is a subject far too little discussed from what I can tell, yet with a fundamental awareness and regular usage of design patterns, you can dramatically uplevel your frontend code. Rubyists in particular will have a major leg up here over devs coming from communities which are more FP (functional programming) in nature, because the view layer of

3: String-Based Templates vs. DSLs: the Pros & Cons of Each

Feb 22 2022 36 mins

Typically when you mention "Ruby" and "template" in the same breath, people will think of ERB. Perhaps even Haml. But did you know that the Ruby ecosystem offers a wide variety of template engines, and quite a few are built upon pure Ruby? In this episode, I break down the main conceptual difference between "string-based templates" such as ERB and "DSLs" such as Papercraft, the var