In this tour-de-force, Mike Dalessio – Engineering Director at Shopify – and Evan Phoenix – self-described “long-time Rubyist” – join us for a practical discussion of all things Ruby! Ruby is a beautiful language, and we're really excited to cover the history and present of this language with two experts. 00:01:03 Introductions00:01:49 Mike’s Ruby journey00:12:28 Evan’s own Ruby experience00:18:20 The pickaxe book00:20:34 Weird programming interests00:25:11 MINASWAN00:30:33 Language conferences00:36:38 Wrong answers on StackOverflow00:41:53 RubyCentral00:44:50 In-depth examination of Ruby00:47:57 How Shopify sticks to vanilla Rails00:50:28 A tale of two developers00:59:59 Bringing Ruby up to Python’s level01:04:48 Shopify’s largest app monolith01:11:12 Tuning the knobs01:18:01 How not to learn the hard way01:18:57 Opportunities at Shopify01:29:14 Working with the RubyShield program01:32:07 Rails for API servers01:33:21 Mike and Evan’s advice for listeners01:36:00 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Links:
RubyCentral:
Website: https://rubycentral.org/

RubyShield: https://rubycentral.org/ruby-shield

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubycentralorg



Shopify:
Website: https://www.shopify.com/

Careers: https://www.shopify.com/careers

Dev Degree Program: https://devdegree.ca/pages/program



HashiCorp
Website: https://www.hashicorp.com/

Careers: https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs



Mike Dalessio:
Website: http://mike.daless.io/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/flavorjones



Evan Phoenix:
Website: https://github.com/evanphx

Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanphx



RubyConf 2022 (Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2022):Website: https://rubyconf.org/


Other Episodes:Episode 47: RubyShow Link: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2015/10/episode-47-ruby.html

 References:“The Pickaxe Book” aka Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide 2nd Edition:Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers-Second/dp/0974514055

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