509: Bringing Back Rails Generators with Rachel Wright-Munn

Joël takes Bike Shed out onto the conference floor at RailsWorld as he interviews programer and streamer Rachael Wright-Munn, aka ChaelCodes.

Rachael talks about her efforts to index all ruby events around the world with RubyEvents.org, how she augments her workflows with years old generators rather than LLMs, the rising cost of tokens and why AI may not always be your best solution to a problem.

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Keep up to date with all things Ruby conferences, past and future, with Rachael’s index at RubyEvents.org

Read more about the SPIDR approach Rachael mentioned.

Our guest for this episode was Rachael Wright-Munn, connect with her on LinkedIn or check out her website to follow along with her work.

Your host for this episode has been thoughtbot’s own Joël Quenneville.

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