Chris, Andrew, and David catch up after a missed week of recording and quickly dive into the kind of deeply practical Rails work that only comes from real production pain. Andrew shares the massive subscription and billing migration happening at Podia, including Stripe edge cases, legacy plan preservation, and stress-test tooling built from live scenarios. Chris then goes deep on a Hatchbox email cancellation flow that turns into a Rails internals rabbit hole around Action Mailer callbacks, mail delivery cancellation, and a tiny Rails PR born from production debugging. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Podia
• Support only: and except: on _deliver callbacks in ActionMailer #57581
• Improve documentation/testing of abort in Action Mailer ‘before_action #57489
• Mailbin- GitHub

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• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

[This episode from February 2024 was never published and recently discovered]

In today’s episode, Andrew kicks things off with a rant about tackling developer experience tasks at Podia, wrestling with GitHub actions, and Heroku deployment woes. Then the conversation takes a turn to the importance of debugging, the power of bash scripting, and the challenges of naming in programming, with Chris mentioning DHH’s insights from a live stream. They discuss Chris’s travel plans for RubyConf in Australia, other conferences coming up, and reminisce about their childhood love for trains and Thomas the Tank Engine. The episode wraps up with Chris and Andrew sharing advice and tips on writing conference proposals (CFPs) and the value of diverse speaking styles and personalities for engaging an audience. Tune in now to hear more!

Links

• ONCE/Campfire
• debug.rb
• GitHub Copilot
• RubyConf Australia-April 11-12, 2024
• RailsConf 2024-May 7-9, 2024-Detroit, MI
• Sarah Mei-“What Your Conference Proposal is Missing”
• Ruby for All Podcast-Episode 50: The Art of Conference Speaking with Kevin Murphy
• [SFM] We like to party (YouTube)
• Ultimate Skyrim (YouTube)
• RailsConf 2023-Teaching Capybara Testing- An Illustrated Adventure by Brandon Weaver (YouTube)

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Chris and David cover a lot of ground in this episode, starting with Chris’s experience teaching a Rails workshop for Frontend Masters in Minneapolis. Along the way, they dive deep into Rails authentication, Devise, Authlogic migrations, Chris’s ReviseAuth gem, password security, session handling, and the hard tradeoffs of maintaining open source tools. The episode wraps with big podcasting news: David is taking over The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Minnebar
• Ruby 4.0.5 Released
• ReviseAuth
• The Ruby on Rails Podcast

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter