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Five-chair fishbowl conversation lists concrete pain points: hidden SQL and N+1 queries in Rails, gems added without code review, DSLs that hide behavior (RSpec, rake examples), and broken dependencies like gem versioning breakage (Cancan cited). Career tradeoffs get specific: pick one stack for deep domain problems or be a generalist who stitches services. Lots of real examples—PG/mysql2 mentions, Devise, and refactoring/upgrading in production—so expect operational tradeoffs and troubleshooting stories, not abstract praise.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:14Fishbowl format
3. 2:23Ruby developer confusion
4. 10:07Ruby DSLs trade-offs
5. 14:21Career depth vs breadth
6. 25:02Ruby framework long-term support
7. 28:54Q&A

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