Ruby on Rails

4 videos across 3 channels

A look at how Ruby on Rails blends aesthetic elegance, metaprogramming, and pragmatic constraints to boost developer productivity while keeping ecosystems human-centered. The videos trace DHH’s philosophy—from bootstrapping and open, curious thinking to tooling that balances pre-configured power with room for exploration—and then ground those ideas in practical Rails patterns like ordering with ActiveRecord and reducing duplication with with_options.

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474 thumbnail

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474

The speaker riffs from a pet peeve about cookie banners to a wide-ranging meditation on programming languages, tool desi

06:08:48
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH) thumbnail

$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)

The speakers reflect on the evolution of 37signals/HubSpot through years of bootstrapping, margins, and independence, hi

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ActiveRecord::QueryMethods in_order_of

The video explores different ways to order a task list by status, starting from a default order and then comparing pure

00:05:19
Removing Duplication Using with_options thumbnail

Removing Duplication Using with_options

The video explains the with_options helper in Rails, showing how it factors out duplication of options across multiple m

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