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Dec 12, 2014

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Derek and Sean discuss hunting Rails performance regressions and techniques for improving performance in your web applications.

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Dec 12, 2014

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On The Bike Shed, hosts Chris Toomey and Steph Viccari discuss their development experience and challenges with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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1: Sandi & Derek's Rules: Sean and Derek discuss lessons learned from following Sandi Metz' rules on a project and the overall impact of rules on code. by The Bike Shed
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41: Ugh, I Have to Write Web Apps in This Thing: Derek and Sean talk about Derek's exploration into Elixir and Phoenix, when and how performance matters, and ways to keep your Rails app fast from day 1. by The Bike Shed
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13: Begrudging Applause (Aaron Patterson): Live from RailsConf, Aaron Patterson joins the show to talk about Rails 5, Rack 2, Contributing to Open Source, and cats. We also field audience questions. by The Bike Shed
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9: Monorails, For the Kids: Sean and Derek discuss Monoliths, Service Oriented Architecture, and the new Adapter Specific Type Registry in Rails 5. by The Bike Shed
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8: Attributes API, Relation#or, Paid Open Source: Derek and Sean discuss what the Attributes API enables, the addition of Relation#or and paid open source. by The Bike Shed
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31: Oxidizing an ORM: Are provably correct queries of interest to you? Sean gives a rundown of what a Rusty ORM might be like to build. by The Bike Shed
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17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron): We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies. by The Bike Shed
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4: Put Everything on the Front End: Derek and Sean discuss hunting Rails performance regressions and techniques for improving performance in your web applications. by The Bike Shed
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11: Form-ing Opinions: Sean and Derek talk about the state of Android tooling, refactoring journeys, and an approach to rails form objects. by The Bike Shed
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56: Most People Aren't Building Trello: Is ActiveRecord reinventing Sequel? If it is, does it matter? Derek and Sean discuss that and whether maybe we could all stand to tone down the JavaScript. by The Bike Shed
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2: Rails 4.2: Derek and Sean discuss Sean's commit access to Rails, what's coming in Rails 4.2, and how to go about making Rails code better. by The Bike Shed
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5: Rails is Not Your Architecture: Derek and Sean discuss various ways of taking the Rails out of your Ruby on Rails application, what folder to put your files in, and the difficulties and rewards of learning new programming languages. by The Bike Shed
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16: Wizards Are Hard to Kill: Grab Bag! Derek and Sean talk about math, augmented reality, RailsConf wrap up, Minimum Viable Products, Accessibility... by The Bike Shed
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37: The Web is Faster Without Garbage: Begun, the ad block wars have. Derek debugs an issue that arises from iOS ad blocking and wonders if analytics will move back to the server side. Sean fills us in on how dirty checking works in ActiveRecord and how he's making it faster and better in Rail by The Bike Shed
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40: ActiveRecord Deprecated Persistence: The ActiveRecord update API is a mess of methods that confuse even ActiveRecord’s maintainer. What are the problems and is there any hope for a solution? by The Bike Shed
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28: Minisode 0.1.1: Did you know Rails has no integration test suite? What could go wrong? by The Bike Shed
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15: Might As Well Be About Trains (Sarah Mei): Sean, Derek, and Sarah Mei talk about conference speaking, refactoring, and OO vs FP problems. by The Bike Shed
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22: No Capes! (Eileen Uchitelle): Eileen Uchitelle joins the show to discuss performance improvements to ActiveRecord, speeding up integration tests, and contributing to or running open source projects. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Code School. Entertaining online learni by The Bike Shed
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25: Throwing the Schema Out With the SOAPy Bathwater (Gordon Fontenot): Derek is joined by Gordon Fontenot for a discussion of the JSON API specification, problems consuming it from Swift, and the future of functional programming in Swift. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Code School. Entertaining online learnin by The Bike Shed
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29: Django Unchained (Mike Burns): Sean is joined by Mike Burns to discuss what Ruby and Rails can learn from Python and Django. by The Bike Shed
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23: Why Did They Call it Rust?!: Sean gives Derek a tour of Rust, a new systems language from Mozilla. This episode of The Bike Shed is sponsored by Code School. Entertaining online learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a f by The Bike Shed
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35: GitHub Ate My Résumé: Sean and Derek explain why you should always use a personal email address in your Git configuration before they dive into Ruby exception handling, and potential MRI proc optimizations. by The Bike Shed
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