the Tightly Coupled Book Club

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read Action View Overview and discuss templating systems, the difference between Action and Active, and internationalization as a bonus view template feature.Reading for this episode: Action View Overview https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.htmlEileen's Railsconf 2023 Keynote: https://youtu.be/TgNb2_LSMMo?si=ymjnJ7DOvZQDp6vbTailwind and the Femininity of CSS: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-cssHotwiring My React Brain at RailsConf 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37Q3xy3pUoLet's Standardize Rails at Railsconf 2023: https://youtu.be/cj9NO1xI4b4?si=NRVm-UbXkxvGmzUBReading for episode 13: Layouts and Rendering in Rails https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

For this week's episode, Aji and Guest Host Sally Hall discussed Active model, form objects and presenters, APIs as database, and Rails inflectors and translation.Reading for this episode: Active Model Basics

Aji & guest host Mercedes Bernard talk ORMs & SQL, left outer joins & includes, and strict & eager loading.Reading for this episode: Active Record Query InterfaceThe Bike Shed episode 358: The Class MethodReading for next episode: Active Model BasicsFind Mercedes online at mercedesbernard.com, on mastodon: mercedescodes@mastodon.world, or LinkedIn

Aji welcomes guest host and fellow thoughtbotter Dimiter Petrov. Their conversation covers association scope, the thoughtful layout of this section of the guides, polymorphic associations, and association extensions.Reading for this episode: Active Record AssociationsHelvetic Ruby: Ruby conference in Bern, Switzerland, November 24, 2023Reading for next episode: Active Record Query Interface

For this week's episode, Aji welcomes our very first Guest Host, Sasha Grodzins! Aji & Sasha read about Active Record Callbacks and discuss pitfalls of callbacks, how they are similar to validations, and comments and commit messages as documentation.Reading for this episode: Active Record Callbacks5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at GustoRuby Science's chapter on callbacksActive Record callbacks source codeAji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue!Reading for episode 9: Active Record Associations

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read "Active Record Validations" and discuss their most-used validation helpers, how they interpreted the validates_associated section of the Guides, and when not to over-validate.Reading for this episode: "Active Record Validations"Time for a Boolean gemWhat's in a name (validation)?Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive FormsReading for episode 8: Active Record Callbacks

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina discuss chapters 5 through 9 of "Active Record Migrations". They debate migration file management, and touch on the relationship between end users and application data, and learning complex concepts within Rails' convention over configuration framework.Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9thoughtbot's AWS Platform Guide (Flightdeck)Reading for episode 7: "Active Record Validations"

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 1 through 4 in “Active Record Migrations” and discuss command line generator options, database-level comments, and reverting migrations.Reading for this episode: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 1-4Reading for episode 6: "Active Record Migrations", chapters 5-9

For this week's episode, Mina is in Japan, the couple read "Active Record Basics" and discuss ORMs, naming conventions and have a special request to you, the listeners.Reading for this episode: "Active Record Basics"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin FowlerMats'z Home ConferenceReading for Episode 5: Chapters 1 - 4 in "Active Record Migrations"

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 8 through 13 of "Getting Started with Rails". They discussed RailsConf and Ruby Central, refactoring using concerns and partials, semantic HTML, and much more.Reading for this episode: Chapters 8-13 in "Getting Started with Rails"Ruby Central (Hit SIGN IN, then SIGN UP)Brittany Martin & the Ruby on Rails PodcastDrew Bragg & Code and the Coding Coders who Code itMDN : The Anchor elementReading for Episode 4: "Active Record Basics"

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read chapters 5 through 7 of "Getting Started with Rails", covering autoloading, MVC and CRUD. They discuss how little effort it takes to arrive at a simple, but fully functional, Rails application, alternative strategies to the Rails console when debugging in production and much more.Reading for this episode: Chapters 5-7 in "Getting Started with Rails"Aji's RailsConf 2023 talk, "Hotwiring My React Brain"If you're interested in attending RailsConf this month in Atlanta, you have five more days to purchase your ticket.Reading for Episode 3: Chapters 8-13 In "Getting Started with Rails"

Aji & Mina discuss the first four chapters of the Rails Guides, and uncover that there's so much more going on in these first simple chapters than meets the eyeBuild A Blog in 15 (more like 30) Minutes: Webpacker Edition by Sasha Grodzins at RailsConf 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-qY37JIdg0Reading for Episode 2: Chapters 5-7, "Getting Started with Rails" - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#autoloading

Aji & Mina introduce themselves and discuss what this show is even going to be about. We're reading through the Ruby on Rails Guides page by page, and discussing our takeaways here.thoughtbot, your expert design and development partnerThe Ruby on Rails Guides - What we're calling the "table of contents" and where we'll be drawing our episodes from.Perusing the Rails Source Code: Alex Kitchens' presentation from Railsconf 2017 that had a big impact on Mina.Bike Shed episode 203: A Blessed Monkeypatch Chris Toomey's conversation with Eileen Uchitelle, which we obliquely reference in the ep.