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

$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

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

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