
Episode 353: Rails Committer Heavy Hitter with Rafael França
About this episode
Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.
Links for this episode:
- Plataformatec
- Simple Form: Forms made easy for Rails
- Rails Core Team
- Rails 6.1 Release Notes
- Hotwire
- rafaelfranca (Rafael França) · GitHub
- Rafael França (@rafaelfranca) · Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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