the Tightly Coupled Book Club

by Aji & Mina Slater

Ever thought to yourself, "I really should read this documentation from cover to cover"?

So did we.

Starting with the Ruby on Rails Guides, we read the docs all the way through and discuss what we've learned.

Read along with us!

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Action View Overview

    Action View Overview

    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

  • Active Model Basics

    Active Model Basics

    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

  • Active Record Query Interface

    Active Record Query Interface

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

  • Active Record Associations

    Active Record Associations

    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 Associations Helvetic Ruby: Ruby conference in Bern, Switzerland, November 24, 2023 Reading for next episode: Active Record Query Interface

  • Active Record Callbacks

    Active Record Callbacks

    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 Callbacks 5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at Gusto Ruby Science's chapter on callbacks Active Record callbacks source code Aji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue! Reading for episode 9: Active Record Associations