In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew chat through everything from extreme summer heat, tornadoes, and driving habits, to browser quirks, Unicode bugs, Punycode, and the intricacies of building and maintaining rich text editors. Their conversation drifts into developer tools like Tiptap and Lexical, accessibility issues, browser rendering oddities, and even some personal stories involving cooking fails and skateboarding injuries. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman (Hacker News, Dec 23, 2010)
• Tiptap
• Lexical
• Punycode

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

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew discuss the recent Google Cloud Platform and Heroku outages, sharing personal experiences of system impacts and recovery strategies. The conversation shifts to technical insights, including a deep dive into Rails ‘direct’ routes and their routing helper capabilities. They also touch on the latest performance enhancements in Ruby 3.3, such as Embedded TypedData Objects and their impacts. Also, they explore parsing Ruby code with Prism and chat about productivity hacks, upcoming RailsConf plans, parenting chaos, and dreams of launching their own MTV show. Hit the download button now!

Links

• Judoscale - Remote Ruby listener gift
• Implementing Embedded TypedData Objects (Rails at Scale)
• Supercharging Ruby with Embedded TypedData Objects (Ruby Stack News)
• Prism Ruby parser
• RailsConf 2025, Philadelphia, PA, July 8-10

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

In this fun episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew dive into a wide-ranging chat that kicks off with Nintendo’s new Switch 2, dentist nightmares, and the chaos of Mario Party. From there, it transitions into some highly practical Rails development discussions, including a slick new implementation for MetaTags in Jumpstart, the headaches and benefits of JSON-LD for SEO, and an overdue breaking change to the Pay gem. There’s also a smart e-ink countdown widget built with Ruby called TRMNL and updates on RailsConf and Rocky Mountain Ruby. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Schema.org Course
• MetaTags
• JSON-LD
• RailsConf 2025-Philadelphia, PA, July 8-10
• Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025-Boulder, CO, October 6-7
• RailsWorld 2025-Amsterdam, NL, September 4-5
• TRMNL
• TRMNL-GitHub
• Pay Gem
• Rails Assets
• How to use the new action_ text-trix gem (GoRails YouTube)
• Honeybadger
• Nintendo Switch 2

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