The Bike Shed

Laila and Derek discuss how they have handled forms with complex validation requirements and how to make these forms have a smooth user experience. HTML Form Validations HTML5 Validation Browser Support Parsely JS Client Side Validations SimpleForm 7 Ways Form Accessibility Can Boost Conversions Support The Bike Shed

Begun, the ad block wars have. Derek debugs an issue that arises from iOS ad blocking and wonders if analytics will move back to the server side. Sean fills us in on how dirty checking works in ActiveRecord and how he's making it faster and better in Rails 5. Sean and his wife in a hot air balloon iOS 9 Content Blockers The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites Do No Track HTTP Header ActiveModel Dirty API ActiveRecord Dirty Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Laila talk about learning Python and Django and discuss how thoughtbot adopts new languages, frameworks, and libraries. What factors influence adoption? How do we share what works and doesn't work? Writing your first Django app The Python Tutorial Django URLs Django filters Learn You A Haskell For Great Good CIS 194: Introduction to Haskell Two Scoops of Django Ruby Science Suspenders thoughtbot's research board Validating Schemas with an RSpec Matcher json_matchers scenic Support The Bike Shed

Sean and Derek explain why you should always use a personal email address in your Git configuration before they dive into Ruby exception handling, and potential MRI proc optimizations. Set your Git email address to an address you own "forever". Git .mailmap Jobs at thoughtbot rest-client Ruby's Kernel#raise documentation Ruby's Exception#cause documentation Spring overrides raise, but feels uneasy about it. Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grim. Proc#=== documentation. Upcase: 50% Off Your First Month For Bike Shed Listeners! Support The Bike Shed

Derek is joined by Laila Winner to discuss Neo4j, the importance of fantastic documentation, and the different types of documentation a project requires. PLIBMTTBHGATY Neo4j Teach, Don't Tell Let's talk about ecosystem documentation - Grading documentation of the top 40 crates in Rust. FactoryGirl Getting Started Clearance SignInGuard documentation Rails Security Guide Jobs at thoughtbot Laila on Twitter Support The Bike Shed

Sean and Derek take some listener questions, and dig into DRY. DRY Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Inherited Resources Sandi Mets - All The Little Things Sign up for Sandi Metz's "Chainline" newsletter Sunk cost fallacy "Inheritence is not for sharing code" Eric Hayes' Rails PR Larry Bird Thanks for sending us your questions and feedback. Got more? You can email us at hosts@bikeshed.fm or tweet us.Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss Microsoft's interest in open source, improving the Rails development story on Windows, and Sean's progress implementing an ORM in Rust. Developing on Windows PowerShell Cygwin Does Windows fork? Modern.ie ievms Internet Explorer compatibility mode PostGIS Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries Ransack Rust specialization Rust grapples with orphan instances Sean's in-progress Rust ORM Support The Bike Shed

Are provably correct queries of interest to you? Sean gives a rundown of what a Rusty ORM might be like to build. String, str, and CStr. What's a marker trait? Rust macros. Rust compiler plugins. hy·gien·ic ˌhī-ˈjē-nik, -ˈje- also -jē-ˈe-nik Sean's ORM query thoughts Support The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean discuss hypothetical changes to Rails routing before turning their attention toward hunting memory bloat and the proposal that strings be frozen by default in Ruby 3. The Bike Shed listeners make disable_with default on submit_tag Derek tries to explain the trouble with unrestricted routes to a client. The trouble with singular resources and form_for Use derailed benchmarks to find memory leaks and bloat. ActiveRecord memory bloat Matz: String literals frozen by default in Ruby 3 The issue for discussion because Twitter is terrible for these things. The trouble with symbols Required keyword argument syntax is ugly. Support The Bike Shed

Sean is joined by Mike Burns to discuss what Ruby and Rails can learn from Python and Django. Mike Burns Python's map Django George's Sleeping with the Enemy talk from RailsConf 2013 A False Midnight Python doctest Python Decorator Library Support The Bike Shed