the Tightly Coupled Book Club Aji & Mina Slater

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read Action View Overview and discuss templating systems, the difference between Action and Active, and internationalization as a bonus view template feature.Reading for this episode: Action View Overview https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_view_overview.htmlEileen's Railsconf 2023 Keynote: https://youtu.be/TgNb2_LSMMo?si=ymjnJ7DOvZQDp6vbTailwind and the Femininity of CSS: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-cssHotwiring My React Brain at RailsConf 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37Q3xy3pUoLet’s Standardize Rails at Railsconf 2023: https://youtu.be/cj9NO1xI4b4?si=NRVm-UbXkxvGmzUBReading for episode 13: Layouts and Rendering in Rails https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

For this week's episode, Aji and Guest Host Sally Hall discussed Active model, form objects and presenters, APIs as database, and Rails inflectors and translation.
Reading for this episode: Active Model Basics

Aji & guest host Mercedes Bernard talk ORMs & SQL, left outer joins & includes, and strict & eager loading.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Query InterfaceThe Bike Shed episode 358: The Class MethodReading for next episode: Active Model BasicsFind Mercedes online at mercedesbernard.com, on mastodon: mercedescodes@mastodon.world, or LinkedIn

Aji welcomes guest host and fellow thoughtbotter Dimiter Petrov. Their conversation covers association scope, the thoughtful layout of this section of the guides, polymorphic associations, and association extensions.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Associations
Helvetic Ruby: Ruby conference in Bern, Switzerland, November 24, 2023
Reading for next episode: Active Record Query Interface

For this week's episode, Aji welcomes our very first Guest Host, Sasha Grodzins! Aji & Sasha read about Active Record Callbacks and discuss pitfalls of callbacks, how they are similar to validations, and comments and commit messages as documentation.
Reading for this episode: Active Record Callbacks
5 Rails Callbacks Best Practices Used at Gusto
Ruby Science's chapter on callbacks
Active Record callbacks source code
Aji at RailsConf 2019: Commit Messages to the rescue!
Reading for episode 9: Active Record Associations

For this week's episode, Aji & Mina read "Active Record Validations" and discuss their most-used validation helpers, how they interpreted the validates_associated section of the Guides, and when not to over-validate.
Reading for this episode: "Active Record Validations"
Time for a Boolean gem
What's in a name (validation)?
Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive Forms
Reading for episode 8: Active Record Callbacks