# Chris Is Back And Ready To Rant Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505/chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505/chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant.md Podcast: [Remote Ruby](https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505) Published: 2026-07-03T12:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2260490/episodes/19424493-chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2260490/episodes/19424493-chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/remote-ruby-402505/episodes/chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant Duration seconds: 3540 ## Resource Chris returns from Greece and catches up with Andrew and David on travel, conferences, movies, and the latest developments in the Rails community. They dig into the newly announced Rails World lineup, the possibilities of Active Search, alternatives to Elasticsearch, extending Action Text and Lexi, a tricky ruby-vips dependency update, and mise’s rapidly expanding machine bootstrap tools. They wrap up with open source funding, RubyConf preparations, rising tech prices, and the massive anticip... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/remote-ruby-402505/episodes/chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505/chris-is-back-and-ready-to-rant.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.