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💎 Ruby Radar #75 - Happy November

💎 Ruby Radar #75 - Happy November

Welcome to the 75th issue of Ruby Radar! In this issue, we have a podcast on hiring and working with juniors, a pairing offer from a wonderful developer, discussions of business logic placement, and more. We hope you enjoy it and welcome to November!

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🎙The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 442: Sierra Rails (The Apprenticeship Pattern) with Dave Paola — www.therubyonrailspodcast.com

An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results.

🎙Remote Ruby | Kevin Newton on Ruby Parser, SyntaxTree, Prettier Ruby and a sneak peek! — remoteruby.com

Kevin Newton, Staff Production Engineer at Shopify, is back for the third time and there’s a LOT to absorb here. Kevin talks about Ruby Parser, SyntaxTree, Prettier Ruby, and even gives us a peek into the Ruby Ecosystem at Shopify. If you suffer from imposter syndrome, worried if Ruby is dying, or just need to feel smarter for having listened to something, this is the episode for you!

📝 Gnarly Learnings from October 2022 - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

We love reading, watching, and listening in order to keep our skills sharp and our perspectives... Tagged with learnin, ruby, rails, javascript.

📝 Why and how GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord::Encryption

You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.

Today @jhawthorn merged a PR that changes Classes and Modules to use object shapes for storing instance variables rather than a hash table. Class IVAR reads are 2x faster, and it saved 16MB RAM! 👏
— Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove)
Nov 1, 2022

Do you want more Ruby help 1-1? Pair with me!
It’s open for the next 3 weeks, juniors and mid-level developers are more than welcome ✨
— Kasper Timm Hansen (@kaspth)
Nov 2, 2022