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 anticipation surrounding GTA VI. Hit the download button now!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Obsession
• Toy Story 5
• Porsche reveals three one-of-one 911 models on the red carpet at the World Premiere of Toy Story 5 (Porsche Newsroom US)
• Here are the Rails World 2026 speakers (Ruby on Rails)
• Typesense side-by-side feature comparison
• Bootstrap (mise)
• mise oci
• mise membership
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• RubyConf, Las Vegas, July 14-16, 2026
• Rails World, Austin, TX, Sept 23-24, 2026

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up after a missed week of recording and quickly dive into the kind of deeply practical Rails work that only comes from real production pain. Andrew shares the massive subscription and billing migration happening at Podia, including Stripe edge cases, legacy plan preservation, and stress-test tooling built from live scenarios. Chris then goes deep on a Hatchbox email cancellation flow that turns into a Rails internals rabbit hole around Action Mailer callbacks, mail delivery cancellation, and a tiny Rails PR born from production debugging. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Podia
• Support only: and except: on _deliver callbacks in ActionMailer #57581
• Improve documentation/testing of abort in Action Mailer ‘before_action #57489
• Mailbin- GitHub

• Chris Oliver X/Twitter
• Andrew Mason X/Twitter
• Jason Charnes X/Twitter