Rails Core AMA - Rails World 2023 

- 00:00 Intro - 00:58 Jean: What's your favorite color? 🤡 - 01:22 Jean: Which part of the Rails codebase is a must read for any Rails developer? - 02:38 Matthew: Is there a lesser-known Rails feature that you wish more developers were aware of? - 03:57 Matthew: What's your take on PostgreSQL vs. MySQL? - 05:38 To the public: Who's made a contribution to Rails that has been merged? - 06:50 Eileen: What's the criteria for joining the Rails Core team? - 10:21 DHH: How does Rails Core decide which features to abstract from the framework? - 13:04 John: How to keep up with the Rails updates and new features? - 14:18 Rafael: What criteria makes a feature worthy of joining the Rails Core project? - 16:55 Jeremy: Are there plans to support key rotation for deterministic keys in ActiveRecord encryption? - 17:38 Jeremy: Might you ever make `Arel::Table` public? - 18:35 Aaron: What would you say you do here [in the Rails Core team]? - 20:03 Eileen, DHH: What's Rails Core vision for the future of Rails? - 22:41 Rafael, Xavier: How does the Rails Core discuss new feature submissions? - 26:07 Jean: With Rails now being so large (300k LOC), does anyone on the team feel like they understand it all? - 27:20 Who, in the last month, has been focusing on bug fixes? - 28:33 Rafael: How much pressure did DHH put on you to get Rails 7.1 done in time for Rails World? - 30:39 Rafael: How do you decide if the next Rails version will be a major or minor release? - 31:06 Aaron: What's your personal pick for the most crucial evolution that Rails should make in the next 5 years? - 32:30 DHH: Did you use the "renaissance" term during your opening keynote because you didn't want to cut your hair? 🤡 - 33:10 Matthew, Eileen, Rafael, Roby: Do you have any ideas for making Rails more appealing to new or junior developers? - 37:01 To the public: How many of you are here on their first Ruby and Rails related tech conference? - 37:17 To the public: How many of you have been using Rails for less than a year? - 37:42 Carlos: What feature from another framework would you bring into Rails if you could? - 38:58 Jean, Eileen, Xavier: Are there any features that should obviously be in Rails but actually aren't? - 41:45 Jean, DHH: Were there conversations about Rails needing to have support for jobs before ActiveJob and SolidQueue? - 42:30 DHH giving examples about other features in Rails that took some time to properly add - 43:40 Aaron: What is the general process for handling security in Rails? How can people help? - 44:55 John, Carlos: What areas of the framework codebase do you personally find to be most intimidating to work on? - 46:16 Xavier: Can you talk about your career before you were a software developer? Can it be too late for someone to become a software developer? - 47:55 Who in the Rails Core team has a degree in computer science? - 48:24 Did anyone else in the Rails Core team have a prior career before going into software engineering? - 48:47 To the Rails Core team: Who travelled the farthest/nearest to come to Rails World? - 49:17 Awards for the Rails Core team - 50:28 Outro Please tell me if I forgot or misunderstood anything 👍

Awesome to see everyone on the stage all together!

Really enjoyed watching!!

Glad the core team was recognized for their lifetime contribution at the end.

Очень интересно! спасибо!

Paris ❤

Baklib sent a congratulatory message, hoping that the Rails community will get better and better.