Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Dave Kimura

Eric Berry

David Richards

Special Guest: 

Ben Orenstein

In this episode, the Ruby Rogues speak with a return guest, Ben Orenstein. Ben gives an update on leaving the company he worked for ThoughtBot, to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations. He most recent work is a call Refactoring Rails. Ben speaks about the work that went into creating this course and working with Rail on this type of platform. Ben dives into the course features such as testing practices, coding practices, code quality, and much more.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 


What makes Rail development slow to a crawl?
Active record callbacks
Slow tests
Testing best practices
Who will this course benefit?
Coding practices
As an advance dev. It is still good to get another perspective
Keeping the configuration up to date.
Working in teams -  Code quality and quantity
Leaving ThoughtBot
Surrendering relationship after leaving the job
Solo entrepreneurship - is this work?
Working in confidence
Working on Elm
Refactoring old version of rails
Refactoring code
Dev. Ops team
Technical debt
30 Day Code Quality Challenge 
and much much more.


Links: 


Refactoring Rails
ThoughtBot
Podcast -  The Art Product
30 Day Code Quality Challenge
@r00k
benorenstein.com


Picks:

David


What Makes Us Feel Great About Our Work?


Dave


Sentury 


Chuck


Course  - How To Find A Job
NeuYear
Battery Powered Soldering Iron


Eric


MetaBase


Ben


Gem  -  Adder Extras
Book - DeskBound  

Special Guest: Ben Orenstein.