] Chris talks about how he discovered Ruby and began developing with it. It started with him wanting to build websites.[00:05:05] Active resource is mentioned and what it did.[00:08:12] Chris talks about IRC Bots that worked, and he also expands on his goal to teach himself how to use raw socket and the IRC Protocol.[00:12:15] What helped Chris get his first job?[00:14:17] Nate wants to know if Ruby is a good program language for beginners and if you can equate learning programming to learning a musical instrument, like a guitar. Chris explains and mentions an experience he had.[00:20:40] Chris talks about his first Rails job where he had to build "breadcrumbs" and the issues he had. He has some great advice.[00:31:22] Andrew shares a funny story about asking Chris for help refactoring. Listen what he did to help him.[00:33:06] Chris explains what GoRails is, how it was born, where it came from, and what he does with it. You will be amazed at how many videos he's recorded.[00:40:20] Two questions are answered by Chris that Nate is curious about. What's been his most popular episode and what is his personal favorite one?[00:44:28] A rundown on HatchBox is given. Let's say it's a cheaper hosting service and you don't have to set it up all by yourself.[00:51:57] A discussion is brought up about frustrations with Webpacker.[00:54:48] Andrew finds the "log file" topic interesting and Chris expands on this and explains what can be used to help.LinksRailsConf 2020 KeryxAdmins Active Resource DRb Overview Coin Refactoring GoRails RailsCasts Student Developer Pack GoRails Liking Posts HatchboxSpecial Guest: Chris Oliver.★ Transistor.fm is now hosting an archive of the podcast for us. Learn how to start your own podcast!