A podcast where Aji & Mina buddy-read technical documentations cover to cover.
Currently reading: Ruby on Rails Guides
Episodes every other Tuesday!
Hiya!
Mina's race is coming up this Sunday and we are headed to Germany/France for two weeks!
All that is to say, the Tightly Coupled Book Club will be on hiatus for a little bit. Our next new episode will be come out on Tuesday, October 31st.
See you then! 👋🏼
📣 NEW EPISODE ALERT!
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.
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 Callbacks5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at GustoRuby Science's chapter on callbacksActive Record callbacks source codeAji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue!Reading for episode 9: Active Record Associations
🚨NEW EPISODE!
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.
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 gemWhat's in a name (validation)?Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive FormsReading for episode 8: Active Record Callbacks
📢NEW EPISODE!
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.
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 5-9thoughtbot's AWS Platform Guide (Flightdeck)Reading for episode 7: "Active Record Validations"
🚨 New episode alert!
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.
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 1-4Reading for episode 6: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9
The brilliant half of our co-hosts (@Minaswan) is heading to Japan for @rubykaigi next week.
Will you be there?
We’d love to say hello!!
✨NEW EPISODE✨
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.
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 PodcastDrew Bragg & Code and the Coding Coders who Code itMDN <a>: The Anchor elementReading for Episode 4: "Active Record Basics"
🥹 Thank you so much for the shoutout, Amanda!
Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities.
Episode 3 comes out next Tuesday! We’ll be chatting our thoughts about Getting Started With Rails chapters 8-13.
Have you caught up on the first two episodes and done the reading yet? 🎧📕
Episode 2, Getting Started With Rails (chapters 5-7) available now!
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 this month in Atlanta, you have five more days to purchase your ticket.Reading for Episode 3: Chapters 8-13 In "Getting Started with Rails"
@railsconf was amazing, as always.
🙏🏼 Thanks to everyone we met in ATL; feeling inspired by you all!
🤖 Special shoutout to the @thoughtbot team! Face2Face time is so valuable in this remote work world.
