Framework Friends

Aaron Francis and Andrew Culver

Aaron Francis and Andrew Culver compare notes on their experiences as developers in the Laravel and Ruby on Rails ecosystems. read less

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Aaron and Andrew talk about recent experiments in video production including Aaron's upcoming MySQL for Developers course and Andrew's YouTube videos from The Rails SaaS Conference.Aaron's "confidence monitor""Launching a SaaS in Nine Hours using Rails and Bullet Train"ScreenflowRecutThe complete collection of Aaron's short form Twitter videos seasoned with dank but unrelated memesAn actual example of Aaron's short form videosAn example of Andrew's feature release videos"Getting to One Million Users as a One-Woman Dev" by Nadia Odunayo at Rails SaaS

Aaron and Andrew talk about recent experiments in video production including Aaron's upcoming MySQL for Developers course and Andrew's YouTube videos from The Rails SaaS Conference.Aaron's "confidence monitor""Launching a SaaS in Nine Hours using Rails and Bullet Train"ScreenflowRecutThe complete collection of Aaron's short form Twitter videos seasoned with dank but unrelated memesAn actual example of Aaron's short form videosAn example of Andrew's feature release videos"Getting to One Million Users as a One-Woman Dev" by Nadia Odunayo at Rails SaaS

Knapsack ProCircleCIGitHub ActionsTest-Driven LaravelExample testing outside the happy path with system tests.Magic Test for RailsMagic Test for Laravel

OpenAPIOpenAPI Client GeneratorJSON:APIActive ResourcePyActiveResourceTruckerStripe's API SearchHammerstone Refine

Full Stack Europe 2022Photo of Aaron doing the splits on stageAaron's article on The ReadME ProjectThe Rails SaaS ConferenceBrittany Martin's Rails SaaS recap on The Ruby on Rails PodcastPhoto of the disastrous chair rental

Remix with Kent C. Dodds

Remix with Kent C. Dodds

Kent's WebsiteKent on TwitterRemixEpic React

(Extra) RailsConf Podcast Panel

(Extra) RailsConf Podcast Panel

As mentioned in the last episode, we're sharing in our feed the RailsConf Podcast Panel where Andrew represented Framework Friends. If you're interested in some insider discussion from the Rails community, enjoy! Otherwise, stay tuned for a new episode of Framework Friends later this week!

The Rails SaaS Conference

The Rails SaaS Conference

The Rails SaaS ConferenceAndrew's announcement Jason Cohen's famous MicroConf talk (from around the era we were talking about)

Phoenix and LiveView with Chris McCord

Phoenix and LiveView with Chris McCord

Phoenix Framework and LiveViewThe Elixir Programming LanguageFly.ioChris McCord on Twitter

Laravel Nova 4.0

Laravel Nova 4.0

Aaron's AnnouncementStripe CapitalLaravel NovaHammerstone RefineSidekiq Pro

Bullet Train Goes Open-Source

Bullet Train Goes Open-Source

We debrief about Sin City Ruby and Aaron asks Andrew questions about the technical, product, and business details of the announcement that Bullet Train is now available as an open-source Rails-based framework with a paid "Pro" tier, while also sharing insights from earlier, similar developments in the Laravel product line.

Sharing what originally drew Aaron to Laravel and Andrew to Ruby on Rails, and how it relates to what we're each working on today.