Rails Core AMA - Rails World 2023

Ten of the current 12 Rails Core members sat down to answer questions submitted by the Rails World audience in Amsterdam, such as: How do they decide on which features to add? How should Rails evolve in the future? What does it take to join the Core team?
Rails Core members present were: Aaron Patterson, Carlos Antonio Da Silva, David Heinemeier Hansson, Eileen Uchitelle, Jean Boussier, Jeremy Daer, John Hawthorne, Matthew Draper, Rafael Franças, and Xavier Noria.
Hosted by @Planetargon founder and CEO @RobbyRussell.
Links:
rubyonrails.org/community
rubyonrails.org/
github.com/rails
www.planetargon.com/
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[@Jainaisisse]

- 00:00 Intro
- 00:58 Jean: What's your favorite color? 🤡
- 01:22 Jean: Which part of the Rails codebase is a must read for any Rails developer?
- 02:38 Matthew: Is there a lesser-known Rails feature that you wish more developers were aware of?
- 03:57 Matthew: What's your take on PostgreSQL vs. MySQL?
- 05:38 To the public: Who's made a contribution to Rails that has been merged?
- 06:50 Eileen: What's the criteria for joining the Rails Core team?
- 10:21 DHH: How does Rails Core decide which features to abstract from the framework?
- 13:04 John: How to keep up with the Rails updates and new features?
- 14:18 Rafael: What criteria makes a feature worthy of joining the Rails Core project?
- 16:55 Jeremy: Are there plans to support key rotation for deterministic keys in ActiveRecord encryption?
- 17:38 Jeremy: Might you ever make `Arel::Table` public?
- 18:35 Aaron: What would you say you do here [in the Rails Core team]?
- 20:03 Eileen, DHH: What's Rails Core vision for the future of Rails?
- 22:41 Rafael, Xavier: How does the Rails Core discuss new feature submissions?
- 26:07 Jean: With Rails now being so large (300k LOC), does anyone on the team feel like they understand it all?
- 27:20 Who, in the last month, has been focusing on bug fixes?
- 28:33 Rafael: How much pressure did DHH put on you to get Rails 7.1 done in time for Rails World?
- 30:39 Rafael: How do you decide if the next Rails version will be a major or minor release?
- 31:06 Aaron: What's your personal pick for the most crucial evolution that Rails should make in the next 5 years?
- 32:30 DHH: Did you use the "renaissance" term during your opening keynote because you didn't want to cut your hair? 🤡
- 33:10 Matthew, Eileen, Rafael, Roby: Do you have any ideas for making Rails more appealing to new or junior developers?
- 37:01 To the public: How many of you are here on their first Ruby and Rails related tech conference?
- 37:17 To the public: How many of you have been using Rails for less than a year?
- 37:42 Carlos: What feature from another framework would you bring into Rails if you could?
- 38:58 Jean, Eileen, Xavier: Are there any features that should obviously be in Rails but actually aren't?
- 41:45 Jean, DHH: Were there conversations about Rails needing to have support for jobs before ActiveJob and SolidQueue?
- 42:30 DHH giving examples about other features in Rails that took some time to properly add
- 43:40 Aaron: What is the general process for handling security in Rails? How can people help?
- 44:55 John, Carlos: What areas of the framework codebase do you personally find to be most intimidating to work on?
- 46:16 Xavier: Can you talk about your career before you were a software developer? Can it be too late for someone to become a software developer?
- 47:55 Who in the Rails Core team has a degree in computer science?
- 48:24 Did anyone else in the Rails Core team have a prior career before going into software engineering?
- 48:47 To the Rails Core team: Who travelled the farthest/nearest to come to Rails World?
- 49:17 Awards for the Rails Core team
- 50:28 Outro
Please tell me if I forgot or misunderstood anything 👍

[@dave_kimura]

Really enjoyed watching!!

[@StanislavPogrebnyak]

Awesome to see everyone on the stage all together!

[@okoni.alesre]

Очень интересно! спасибо!

[@KrishnaDiamesso]

Glad the core team was recognized for their lifetime contribution at the end.

[@alirazaahad]

Paris ❤

[@baklib]

Baklib sent a congratulatory message, hoping that the Rails community will get better and better.