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💎 Ruby Radar #62 - Hiring and Mentoring Juniors

💎 Ruby Radar #62 - Hiring and Mentoring Juniors

August 07, 2022

Welcome to the 62nd issue of Ruby Radar! There was a lot of discussion around hiring and mentoring juniors this week. We have picked a couple highlights for you below as well as lots of other great content. Enjoy!

🎙️ The Bike Shed: Breaking News — www.bikeshed.fm

Steph and Chris share some big news about the future of The Bike Shed.

Steph shares an update about integrating with Knapsack Pro. Chris is excited for larger projects that will begin in the next few weeks. They answer a listener's question on keeping backlogs connected to the product vision.

🎙️ Gem Mining & Advice on Mentoring Developers — remoteruby.com

We hear about some “gem mining” Chris has been working on, and some discussions around SQLite, RBS, and Stripe. Chris and Andrew also go in depth and share some advice regarding mentors and mentees and how there’s a lot more aspects to being a developer than coding.

📝 Ruby on Rails: 3 tips for deleting data at scale

Learn how to delete data in large Rails apps with destroy_async, delete, destroy, and scheduled cron jobs.

📝 Sharing Past Conference Proposals - Kevin Murphy

This summarizes my past accepted conference proposals, with some tips or commentary on writing them.

A new @rubyforall episode dropped today with co-host @andrewmcodes! I hit a milestone, my one year anniversary as a software engineer 🥳 We talk about my journey, some failures, and lessons we've learned.
— Julie (@codewithjulie)
11:45 PM • Aug 4, 2022

#Rails tip:
erb partials with named parameters are cool right? Allows you to add features.
But you know what else is cool?
CSS vars with defaults
— Pascal Laliberté (@pascallaliberte)
10:01 PM • Aug 4, 2022