The Bike Shed

34: README.md

September 29th, 2015  |  38 mins 47 secs

Derek is joined by Laila Winner to discuss Neo4j, the importance of fantastic documentation, and the different types of documentation a project requires.

33: Just Put it in a Module, Man

September 22nd, 2015  |  40 mins 23 secs

Sean and Derek take some listener questions, and dig into DRY.

32: Bug For Bug Compatibility

September 15th, 2015  |  50 mins 36 secs

Derek and Sean discuss Microsoft's interest in open source, improving the Rails development story on Windows, and Sean's progress implementing an ORM in Rust.

31: Oxidizing an ORM

September 8th, 2015  |  48 mins 24 secs

Are provably correct queries of interest to you? Sean gives a rundown of what a Rusty ORM might be like to build.

30: Just Go to Slash Wibble

September 1st, 2015  |  46 mins 26 secs

Derek and Sean discuss hypothetical changes to Rails routing before turning their attention toward hunting memory bloat and the proposal that strings be frozen by default in Ruby 3.

29: Django Unchained (Mike Burns)

August 25th, 2015  |  23 mins 26 secs

Sean is joined by Mike Burns to discuss what Ruby and Rails can learn from Python and Django.

28: Minisode 0.1.1

August 18th, 2015  |  9 mins 17 secs

Did you know Rails has no integration test suite? What could go wrong?

27: I've Got 29.97 Problems (and codecs are some)

August 11th, 2015  |  43 mins 56 secs

Sean and Derek circle back on HTTP before diving into unsafe rust, and finally the merits of a small standard library.

26: My Cache is in the Cloud

August 4th, 2015  |  33 mins 59 secs

This week, Sean and Derek discuss performance and inheriting code. In a stroke of complete madness, Derek decides that turbolinks isn't that bad.

25: Throwing the Schema Out With the SOAPy Bathwater (Gordon Fontenot)

July 28th, 2015  |  51 mins 11 secs

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.

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24: You Look Good in a Lab Coat (Richard Schneeman)

July 21st, 2015  |  41 mins 4 secs

Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues big and small.

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23: Why Did They Call it Rust?!

July 14th, 2015  |  43 mins 9 secs

Sean gives Derek a tour of Rust, a new systems language from Mozilla.

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22: No Capes! (Eileen Uchitelle)

July 7th, 2015  |  38 mins 12 secs

Eileen Uchitelle joins the show to discuss performance improvements to ActiveRecord, speeding up integration tests, and contributing to or running open source projects.

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21: The "Best" Canada (Godfrey Chan)

June 30th, 2015  |  23 mins 38 secs

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

20: Intentionally Excruciatingly Painful

June 23rd, 2015  |  41 mins 2 secs

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)

June 16th, 2015  |  29 mins 11 secs

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