About this episode

Chris returns from Greece to discuss various topics including travel, conferences, and updates in the Rails community.

Chris returns from Greece and catches up with Andrew and David on travel, conferences, movies, and the latest developments in the Rails community. They dig into the newly announced Rails World lineup, the possibilities of Active Search, alternatives to Elasticsearch, extending Action Text and Lexi, a tricky ruby-vips dependency update, and mise’s rapidly expanding machine bootstrap tools. They wrap up with open source funding, RubyConf preparations, rising tech prices, and the massive anticip...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Topics covered

• travel
• conferences
• Rails community
• open source funding
• RubyConf preparations
• tech prices

Keywords

• Rails World
• Active Search
• Elasticsearch
• Action Text
• Lexi
• ruby-vips
• open source funding
• RubyConf
• tech prices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rails, RubyConf

Products: Active Search, Elasticsearch, Action Text, Lexi, ruby-vips, mise

Places: Greece

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