Remote Ruby

Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

Rubyists having conversations and interviewing others about Ruby and web development.

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Remote Ruby

Episodes (340)

Friday Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more
Feb 27th LiveComponent with Cameron Dutro
Feb 20th Bridge Components, Swift UI and more with Joe Masilotti

Remote Ruby

Mar 6, 2026
1¼ hours
53 MB

Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues. The conversation digs into why language CLIs are hard to distribute, the tradeoffs between shims vs PATH-based version switching, why tasks can be the “clean” solution, and Jeff’s Rust-first tooling philosophy. They also dive into his other projects: usage (CLI docs/completions), Pitchfork (dev daemon runner that starts/stops services by directory), and fnox/Fort Knox (secrets management with encrypted files or remote stores like 1Password), and a big upc...

Remote Ruby

Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more

Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

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