The Bike Shed

Sean and Derek discuss thoughtful deprecations, backwards compatibility, and other joys of library maintenance. Trailblazer Clearance Ember 2.0 - Stability without Stagnation Ruby 2.2 on Rails 3.2. Now merged, but unreleased. The original removal of ARel type casting Narrowing the scope - a less impactful ARel deprecation Rails changes to accompany the ARel API changes. An example of an issue these refactorings solve.

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. Rails Does Not Define Your Application Architecture What the hell is a service object? Fuzzy file finding with ctrl-p Query Objects Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture Form Objects Scala Play forms Haskell Yesod Forms But Pointfree Has More Points!

Derek and Sean discuss hunting Rails performance regressions and techniques for improving performance in your web applications. Speeding Up Rails 4.2 StackProf Flame Graphs 5 Reasons to Use Protocol Buffers Instead of JSON For Your Next Service Key Frames Binary Search Algorithm Writing Fast Ruby from Erik Micahels-Ober The select and pluck methods Fragment Caching Exposing CSRF token refresh in the jQuery UJS public API. Postgres Explain Plans Implementing Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres in Rails Creating database views in Rails with Scenic Tweet us @_bikeshed or send us email

Sean and Derek take a fresh look at the tradeoffs in writing CoffeeScript and whether we should be using an ES6 transpiler instead. destructiring assignment in JavaScript function currying in CoffeeScript The existential operator in CoffeeScript Stockholm syndrome CoffeeScript writes better JavaScript than you ES5 Compatibility Chart: When can I use map, reduce and forEach? Underscore.js removes fallbacks to native ES5 array functions Safari's LLVM-optimized FTL JIT Compiler ES6 Transpilers traceur and ESNext ES6 Features A plethora of JavaScript build tools ES5 strict mode Sprockets road map for source maps support

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. Ylan Segal wrote us to raise a clarification on one of Sandi's rules discussed in episode #1. Ernie Miller's RailsConf Talk The Rails 4.2 release notes. Sean's work on the attributes API. Aaron Patterson explains Adequate Record Aaron Patterson discusses adequate record, rails, and other topics on Giant Robots #100. Active Job Global Id Web Console Foreigner and Immigrant are a good foreign key combination today with Foreigner subsumed by 4.2. transform_values Responders Derek's unDRY Rails Commit. Thanks to Rachel Cope and Reda Lemeden for our great artwork.

Sean and Derek discuss lessons learned from following Sandi Metz' rules on a project and the overall impact of rules on code. Sandi Metz' Rules Ruby Rogues, episode #87, where Sandi tells us the rules at 1 hour, 18 minutes, 27 seconds in. Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, or POODR, is an excellent book you should all check out. God classes thoughtbot's Ruby style guidelines wherein we disavow ternary operators and conditional modifiers. The facade pattern Guard clause Ruby's method_added method.