Software, Open Source, and Rails With Eileen Uchitelle and Andrew Horner

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Episode 007: Software, Open Source, and Rails with Eileen Uchitelle and Andrew Horner

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Notes

How does the Rails core team work? How are new features planned and implemented? How can I contribute? What should I do if I find a security issue in Rails? Our guest is the newest Rails core team member Eileen Uchitelle (@eileencodes) joins Table Xi senior developer Andrew Horner and host Noel Rappin (@noelrap) to discuss Rails, the new testing features in Rails 5.1, and the Rails Core Team.

Guests

Eileen Uchitelle: Senior Systems Engineer at GitHub on the Platform Systems Team; Member of The Rails Core Team and the Rails Security Team

Andrew Horner: Senior Developer at TableXI

Summary

01:12 - Eileen: Getting Started as a Developer and Getting Involved with The Rails Core Team

• CRUD! What to do When Active Record, MySQL, and Your Data Betray You

03:29 - How Rails Governs Itself Internally

05:52 - The Role of the Release Manager

07:32 - Feature Discussions and Prioritization

08:46 - Requesting Features and Raising Issues as a Non-core Team Member

• HackerOne

17:52 - Backporting

21:44 - System Testing

27:13 - Potential Future Features in 5.1

• Security is Broken: Understanding Common Vulnerabilties

32:12 - User Expectations

• RailsConf 2017: Building Rails ActionDispatch::SystemTestCase Framework

36:12 - Getting Involved in Rails

• RailsConf 2015 - Breaking Down the Barrier: Demystifying Contributing to Rails
• Aaron Patterson: I am a puts debugger

Special Guests: Andrew Horner and Eileen M. Uchitelle .

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