Chris and Andrew catch up after Andrew’s whirlwind “vacation-ish” road trip before diving into Stripe’s latest announcements, usage-based billing, merchant-of-record pricing, Rails file upload quirks, Active Storage image handling, Sidekiq queue strategy, and the future of RubyGems. They also discuss browser form behavior, preserving and deleting attachments, image variant performance, and how to think more clearly about background job priorities. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Dungeon Crawler Carl
• Everything we announced at Sessions 2026 (Stripe Blog)
• Scaling Sidekiq at Gusto (Medium)
• Scaling-Sidekiq -GitHub
• Nate Berkopec post on LinkedIn-Running Containers

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On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with dentist trauma, gold star stickers, and fiber internet. The conversation centers on Rails direct routes, why they can be more powerful than helpers, the upcoming Rails World CFP and ticket rush, how AI is becoming more practical inside real engineering teams, a reminder to fill out the Rails survey, and Chris’s continued work expanding the Rails Getting Started Guide into a more realistic e-commerce tutorial with wishlists, reviews, ratings, and product images. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• How to use Direct Routes in Rails (GoRails)
• On Rails Podcast- Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
• 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey (Planet Argon)
• Rails World -Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX

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Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling in Rails apps. They also touch on conference season and their upcoming talks. Press download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Direct Routes
• Instance Public methods-direct (name, options = {}, &block)
• Instance Public methods-resolve (*args, &block)
• GitHub-Query command for read-only database queries #57156
• App Signal for Hatchbox
• Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, NM
• Frontend Masters Workshop-May 26, 2026-Getting Started with Rails (Chris Oliver)
• Toronto Tech Week- May 25-29, 2026

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