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The Bike Shed

Summary: On The Bike Shed, hosts Derek Prior, Sean Griffin, Laila Winner, and guests 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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Podcasts:

 22: No Capes! (Eileen Uchitelle) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:12

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 learning for existing and aspiring developers. Leave a review on our iTunes page to be entered to win a free month of Code School.

 21: The "Best" Canada (Godfrey Chan) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:38

Rails Core Team member Godfrey Chan joins the show to demystify rails bug hunting and contributing.

 20: Intentionally Excruciatingly Painful | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:02

We're joined by Josh Clayton to discuss our differing strategies on testing view behavior, strategies for dealing with brittle feature specs, and what types of tests each of us favor.

 19: The Oncoming Storm (Sam Phippen) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:11

Derek and Sean are joined by Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team to discuss RSpec mocks, testing strategies, and minitest.

 18: This Podcast is Rigged (But Not Animated) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:14

Sean and Derek discuss rails asset dependencies before diving into an overview of animation techniques and C extensions.

 17: Railing About Performance (Sam Saffron) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:46:46

We chat with Sam Saffron about performance, benchmarking, and database migration strategies.

 16: Wizards Are Hard to Kill | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:40

Grab Bag! Derek and Sean talk about math, augmented reality, RailsConf wrap up, Minimum Viable Products, Accessibility...

 15: Might As Well Be About Trains (Sarah Mei) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:18

Sean, Derek, and Sarah Mei talk about conference speaking, refactoring, and OO vs FP problems.

 14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:31

This week, we're joined by DHH and discuss microservices, monoliths, shared abstractions, and the fate of Action Cable.

 13: Begrudging Applause (Aaron Patterson) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:27

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.

 12: A Poor Man's binding.pry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:55

Derek and Sean talk about naming, debugging, and the anxiety of conference talks.

 11: Form-ing Opinions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:37:19

Sean and Derek talk about the state of Android tooling, refactoring journeys, and an approach to rails form objects.

 10: I Don't Get Functional Programming | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:35

Pat Brisbin joins Derek to discuss the many advantages of Haskell programming.

 9: Monorails, For the Kids | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:37

Sean and Derek discuss Monoliths, Service Oriented Architecture, and the new Adapter Specific Type Registry in Rails 5.

 8: Attributes API, Relation#or, Paid Open Source | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:37:29

Derek and Sean discuss what the Attributes API enables, the addition of Relation#or and paid open source.

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