Remote Ruby

Chris and Andrew catch up after Andrew’s whirlwind “vacation-ish” road trip before diving into Stripe’s latest announcements, usage-based billing, merchant-of-record pricing, Rails file upload quirks, Active Storage image handling, Sidekiq queue strategy, and the future of RubyGems. They also discuss browser form behavior, preserving and deleting attachments, image variant performance, and how to think more clearly about background job priorities. Hit download now to hear more!
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Everything we announced at Sessions 2026 (Stripe Blog)
Scaling Sidekiq at Gusto (Medium)
Scaling-Sidekiq -GitHub
Nate Berkopec post on LinkedIn-Running Containers
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On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with dentist trauma, gold star stickers, and fiber internet. The conversation centers on Rails direct routes, why they can be more powerful than helpers, the upcoming Rails World CFP and ticket rush, how AI is becoming more practical inside real engineering teams, a reminder to fill out the Rails survey, and Chris’s continued work expanding the Rails Getting Started Guide into a more realistic e-commerce tutorial with wishlists, reviews, ratings, and product images. Hit download now to hear more!
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Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
How to use Direct Routes in Rails (GoRails)
On Rails Podcast- Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey (Planet Argon)
Rails World -Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX

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Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling in Rails apps. They also touch on conference season and their upcoming talks. Press download now to hear more! 
Links
Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
Direct Routes
Instance Public methods-direct (name, options = {}, &block)
Instance Public methods-resolve (*args, &block)
GitHub-Query command for read-only database queries #57156
App Signal for Hatchbox
Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, NM
Frontend Masters Workshop-May 26, 2026-Getting Started with Rails (Chris Oliver)
Toronto Tech Week- May 25-29, 2026
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This BREAKING NEWS episode is a candid reaction to Ruby Central’s latest shakeup, with Chris, Andrew, and David unpacking leadership departures, financial strain, the cancelled gala, and what all of it says about the organization’s direction. The conversation moves beyond the headlines into bigger questions about trust, transparency, community values, conference strategy, RubyGems sustainability, and whether Ruby Central can rebuild credibility by involving more of the community in what happens next. Hit download now to hear more! 
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A New Chapter for Ruby Central
RubyConf 2026- July 14-16, Las Vegas, NV

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Chris and David welcome guest John Athayde, who runs the branding and UX consultancy, Meticulous. They dive into John’s unusual path through the Rails world as a designer, front-end developer, consultant, author, and UX thinker. The conversation moves from early Rails history and The Rails View into a broader discussion about why designers need to understand implementation, how AI is changing product and UI work, where component-based design is headed, and why browser support is still one of the messiest parts of modern web development. Hit download now to hear more!
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John Athayde Website
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John Athayde Bluesky
Meticulous
Build Software Like Pixar Makes Movies with John Athayde-The Swift Kick Show
The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience by Bruce Williams and John Athayde (O’Reilly)
Quick ui.sh demo- Adam Wathan X
This is the most user -unfriendly form UI- @tkm_hmng8 X
Duck Hunt - Wes Bos X
Rails World 2026-Austin, TX September 23-24

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