The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Episode 328: 328: rails new cool_app --minimal with Haroon Ahmed
Show notes
This week, Brittany is joined by Haroon Ahmed, a programmer from Coventry, UK. He is a Hacker, Rubyist, and open source contributor. They discuss his latest contribution to Rails (--minimal) and how OS can open up career opportunities for developers.
Links for this episode:
- rails/rails | rails new cool_app --minimal #39282
- CodeTriage: Get Started Contributing to Open Source Projects
- Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 - Splash Down - Epic Games
- hahmed (Haroon Ahmed) · GitHub
- haroon (@iamharoon9) | Twitter
- Haroon's Personal Site
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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