The Ruby on Rails Podcast
The Ruby on Rails Podcast is a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Hosted by David Hill, the show features interviews and discussions with developers and industry experts. It is edited by Redrum Creative.
Episodes
Episode 548: MCP + Generators with Andy Andrea and Rachael Wright-Munn
Sometimes the best conference conversations start with a weird idea.
Rachael Wright-Munn and Andy Andrea join me to revisit a moment at RubyConf when Andy's experiment with schemas and MCP tools collided with a problem Rachel had been trying to solve for Ruby Events: how to make Rails generators easily accessible to AI.
What started as an excited post-talk conversation quickly became an
Episode 547: Special Guest Andy Croll
Andy Kroll joins the podcast to talk about Brighton Ruby, the impact AI is having on software development, and how the changing technology landscape is affecting everything from conference budgets to engineering teams.
Andy shares how tools like Claude Code have changed his day-to-day work, making previously neglected projects more achievable while putting even more emphasis on code revi
Episode 546: Gearing up for Rails World, with Amanda Perino
Rails Foundation Executive Director Amanda Perino joins David to preview Rails World 2026, the conference’s first year in the United States.
Amanda shares how the team is bringing Austin’s personality into the event through live music, barbecue, sponsor experiences, a mechanical bull, the returning Buzzsprout podcast booth, and Rails World’s biggest lightning-talk stage yet. She also dis
Episode 545: Post RubyConf conversation with Neha Abraham
Making new Ruby Friends is one of my favorite parts of attending conferences. Neha Abraham joins me to chat about RubyConf, Mental Health, Data Aggregation, and being my Nemesis
Episode 544: RubyConf 2026 Hallway Track
While at RubyConf, I caught up with several attendees and volunteers to discuss their experiences. These quick interviews have been collected for this episode.
Our Guests
Charles Nutter
Miguel Filho
Cameron Dutro
Nico Roulston
Episode 543: Mike Dalton and Authentication Hell
Episode 542: Kyle D'Oliveira and the Fibonacci Funhouse
Episode 541: Markus Schirp and Mutation Testing
With AI seeming to generate more code every day, we need better tools to verify that it hasn't broken something. Maybe mutation testing can help us get there. Markus Schirp chats with us about the mutant gem and mutation testing.
Show Notes
https://github.com/mbj/mutant
Sponsors
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Episode 540: Jeremy Smith and Blue Ridge Ruby
Blue Ridge Ruby made a comeback in 2026 and Jeremy Smith joins the podcast to talk about how it went
Show Notes
https://blueridgeruby.com/
Sponsors
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Episode 539: Travis Dockter and Blastoff Rails
Travis Dockter wanted a Ruby conference closer to home, so he made one. Today we chat about the ups and downs of putting together a brand new conference.
Show Notes
https://www.blastoffrails.com/
https://rubyconferenceproject.com/
https://game.blastoffrails.com/
Sponsors
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Episode 538: A New Host Has Appeared!
Rachael interviews the new host of the show, David Hill, to discuss his history with Ruby, his love for podcasting, and how much he loves meetups and conferences.
Show Notes
https://www.odetorailsconf.com/
http://rubygemspodcast.com/
https://www.remoteruby.com/
Sponsors
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Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke
Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end
Show Notes
https://userlist.com/
https://slowandsteadypodcast.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/benediktdeicke.com
Sponsor
Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls
Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails)
Show Notes
www.betterwithbecky.com
www.gram.be
Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea
Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails
Show Notes
https://judoscale.com/
https://www.linkedin.com
Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt
Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show to tell us about building a small software company with Rails.
Show Notes
letsjelly.com/rails
https://goodenough.us/
Sponsors
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Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
Sponsors
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Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live a
Episode 532: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. Joe is known as the Hotwire Native guy - he helps Rails developers build web-powered iOS and Android apps with Hotwire Native. He joins the show to talk about how Hotwire Native can help you build mobile apps out of your Rails apps.
Show Notes
Hotwire Native For Rails Developers
Joe Masilotti’s Website
Spon
Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon
This year, I want to expand the show in a new direction. I want to hear from startups and companies that are building with Rails. Today's episode feature John Nunemaker and Garrett Dimon who recently acquired Fireside.fm, the podcast hosting platform we use for this show. We talk about what it's like taking over a Rails app that was under different ownership!
Show Notes
[p3.dev](op3.de
Episode 530: Ask Elise Anything hosted by Rachael Wright-Munn
In this episode, Elise responds to listener submitted questions on everything from her career journey to how cooking relates to coding. With special guest host, Rachael Wright-Munn
Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.
Episode 528: Working In Tech With ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi
In the last few years, there’s been more awareness about ADHD in adults. We’ve learned that it’s more than hyperactivity and it’s not a deficit of attention. Many working in tech have ADHD and because we have a world built for neurotypicals, there can be unique challenges for those working in tech with ADHD. Today, Chris Ferdinandi joins the show to talk to us about how to thrive in tech
Episode 527: Evangelizing Rails with Irina Nazarova
We all love Ruby on Rails. You may remember that my first episode on this show was about whether Rails was still relevant. In the last few years, there’s been so many exciting things coming to Ruby and Rails. I have felt that excitement in the community. I’ve felt it at conferences and in my conversations with many of you. Today, Irina Nazarova joins us to talk about how we can better eva
Episode 526: Rails World with Robby Russell
Nick and I recorded an episode at Rails World with Robby Russell. This is a test of new format we're running where we discuss Rails News. Robby joins us to talk about the Rails Developer Survey that ran this summer. WE also chat about all the new things announced at Rails World.
Sponsors
Thanks to Buzzsprout for sponsoring our Rails World coverage and providing a sound booth to record fr
Episode 525: Catching Up With Ruby Central with Marty Haught
Ruby Central has been a foundational part of the Ruby community since 2003. They organize Ruby Conf and Rails Conf and maintain critical Ruby infrastructure like rubygems.org. With Ruby Conf Chicago just around the corner and new initiatives at Ruby Central, we thought it would be a good time to catch up with our friends at Ruby Central. Marty Haught joins the show to tell us more about R
Episode 524: Writing Code Using AI with Landon Gray
Large language models are everywhere now. They’re changing the way we work, from tools code completion tools like Copilot, to audio generation apps like Suno.ai. Apple recently announced huge updates with generative AI for all of their platforms. Adobe, Canva, and Google have all added AI to their products. It seems like every vendor is building these features. So how will this change the
Episode 523: Welcome Back, Nick Schwaderer
Our illustrious cohost Nick is back from parental leave! We talk about life as a parent and coder, committing to Ruby on Rails, being coworkers and finding time for hobbies. I'm looking forward to recording with Nick again.
Episode 522: Mentoring Junior Devs with Adam Cuppy
A recent focus of many in the community has been expanding the community. We all love Rails and want to create the best community possible. Part of this focus has to include early career devs. We need to expose them to Rails and mentor them into the senior developers and tech leaders we need in the future. Adam Cuppy joins the show today to teach how to be better mentors.
Show Notes
Ment
Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic
EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news about Ruby and its friends. Every year it takes place in a different European city, the location being chosen by participants. Today's guest is Muhamed Isabegovic, who has taken over organizing Euruko this year.
Show Notes
Euruko - https://
Episode 520: Backend Accessibility with Hilary Stohs-Krause
In our last episode, we talked about Web Accessibility. But, did you know that there are accessibility concerns on the backend and in our interactions with our teams. Hilary Stohs-Krause joins the show to tell us more about how we can be more accommodating to our teams.
Show Notes
Simple writing
"Disability Impacts All of Us" (CDC) - https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infogra
Episode 519: Joel Hawksley on Web Accessibility
Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy. For the last several years, he has been part of the team working to improve the accessibility of GitHub.com. He also leads development of the ViewComponent framework. Today, he joins the show to teach us about Web Accessibility
Show Notes
Joel's RailsConf Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch
Episode 518: Live From The Rails Conf Hallway Track!
While at Rails Conf, I caught up with several attendees and organizers to discuss their experiences. These quick interviews have been collected for this episode.
Our Guests:
Trevor John
https://github.com/trevorrjohn
Joshua Paine
https://github.com/midnightmonster/activerecord-summarize
David Hill
https://github.com/Esmale
Alex Mitchell
@a_mitch on instagram
Patrick O’Grady
https://g
Episode 517: Rails Conf 2024 Crossover: Off The Rails
At Rails Conf 2024, I gathered several of our favorite ruby podcasters for a giant crossover episode! In this episode we have:
Drew Bragg from Code and the Coding Coders Who Code It - https://podcast.drbragg.dev/
Julie J from Ruby For All - https://www.rubyforall.com/
Jason Swett from Code with Jason - https://www.codewithjason.com/
Joël Quenneville from The Bikeshed - https://bikeshed.
Episode 516: Catching Up On The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino
Over the last year, the Rails Foundation has been hard at work on several initiatives. After a successful Rails World last year, they’ve been working on the program for this year’s Rails World in Toronto. The Rails Foundation has also been working on several other initiatives that are very important to our community. Amanda Perino, Executive Director of The Rails Foundation joins the show
Episode 515: Livestreaming Code On Twitch with Rachael Wright-Munn
I am very excited for today’s episode! Twitch is a livestreaming service where users can stream themselves to the internet. Twitch is known for video game streaming. But, people stream all kinds of things, including software development. Today's guest is Rachael Wright-Munn who livestreams Rails development on Twitch
Show Notes
Rachael’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/chaelcodes
Find Rach
Episode 514: Rails Camp! With Bobbilee Hartman
There are so many Ruby events happening recently, that it can be hard to know which one to go to. Today we’re going to talk about a rather unique event in the Ruby community. What if you could go to an event that was just the Hallway Track? And that event happened at a summer camp?
Show Notes
Rails Camp West Website - https://west.railscamp.us
Big Nerd Ranch - https://bignerdranch.com/
Episode 513: Modern Rails Apps Ayush Newatia
Rails 7 and Hotwire have completely revolutionized server side Rails apps. Developers can now get much more reactivity with way less javascript, less tooling, and simpler deployments. You’ve probably heard a lot about Rails 7.1 and Hotwire. Maybe you’re even using it in production? Ayush Newatia joins the show to talk about his new book, The Rails and Howtire Codex.
Show Notes
Radioactiv
Episode 512: RailsConf With Ufuk Kayserilioglu
RailsConf is coming up fast! The program committee has released the schedule and keynote speakers. Ufuk Kayserilioglu joins the show to talk about the program and Ruby Central
Show Notes
Kevin's blog post about RailsConf https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/tracks-not-at-railsconf-2024/
RailsConf website & registration https://railsconf.org/
If you have comments about this episode, sen
Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel
You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.
Show Notes
Extism repo: https://github.com/ex
Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook
Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked from the increased demands of the smaller teams. I know some of my listeners have experienced burnout. I myself have had a recent experience with burnout that took months to recover from. Dr. Katy Cook joins the show to teach us more about
Episode 509: The Future Of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit
Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing conferences and contributing to the community. The recent changes in governance have led t some exciting things on the horizon. Adarsh joined the show to talk about what's going to happen with Ruby Central in 2024.
Show Notes
Ruby Central Website
Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT inside Shopify. YJIT is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby written in Rust. Dr. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert joined the show to talk about YJIT
Show Notes
YJIT Website
Maxime on X https://twitter.com/Love2Code (❤️→ λ)
Maxime’s Github https://github
Episode 507: Stephen Margheim on SQLite in Ruby on Rails Applications
If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might be using MySQL. But Rails ships with support for SQLite, a lightweight SQL database. Can that lightweight database be used to make production-ready software? Stephen Margheim joins the show to help us answer that question.
Show Notes
Stephe
Episode 506: Unwinding Flakey Tests with Alan Ridlehoover & Fito von Zastrow
Fito and Alan are frequent RubyConf and RailsConf speakers on topics ranging from software complexity to resolving flaky specs. They joined the how to discuss strategies for dealing with unreliable tests and complex code.
Show Notes
Cisco Meraki:
Careers (https://meraki.com/careers)
Alan Ridlehoover’s LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/aridlehoover)
Fito von Zastrow’s LinkedIn (https://l
Episode 505: RailsConf CFP with Andy Croll
RailsConf is coming up fast and I can’t wait to see you all there! The CFP is open and the program committee is accepting proposals for talks for the conference. Andy Croll joined the show to talk with us about the CFP process and how you can present at RailsConf
** Show Notes**
Rails Conf Detroit - https://railsconf.org/
RailsConf CFP - https://sessionize.com/railsconf2024/
Speakerline.
Episode 504: Kaja Santro on Managing The WNB.rb Slack workspace
Kaja is the Slack Administrator for WNB.rb, a group of women and non-binary rubyists. She joined the show to talk about becoming the Slack Administrator. She fills us in on what the job entails, how she became the slack administrator, and some of the big things she learned from contributing to WNB.rb
Show Notes
Twitter: @alizenero
Mastodon: @kajanoe@mastodon.social
Other podcasts with Ka
Episode 503: Katya Dreyer-Oren on Ethical Software Development
What do we owe to each other? Over the last several years, the tech industry has had a reckoning about ethics within our industry. Katya Dreyer-Oren gave a excellent talk and workshop at RubyConf in San Diego about how to ethically build software. She joined the show to share her thoughts and ideas from her experience as a student of philosophy.
We’re starting something new on the podcas
Episode 502: New Years Resolutions with Jemma Issroff
Our cohost Jemma Issroff joined me to talk about my tenure as host so far, Jemma's work on Prism, fostering communities, building habits, how to be lucky, and we reveal our New Year's Resolutions!
What are your New Years Resolutions? If you'd like to share them, send an email to comments@therubyonrailspodcast.com. You can send text or record a short clip with Voice Memos or Recorder and
Episode 501: Ruby For All Crossover!
I joined Julie and Andrew from Ruby For All to talk about Test Driven Development, attending conferences, and using TDD as a thinking tool.. This episode was recorded at RubyConf in San Diego.
Show Notes
[Ruby For All] - https://www.rubyforall.com/
Sponsors
Honeybadger
As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting,
Episode 500: Episode 500 Bonanza!
Can you believe its been 500 Episodes? What a wild ride. It's been so much fun to take over the show and to get to be a part of this history. Our co-host Nick Schwaderer sat down with me to talk about the history of the show, what it's been like taking over, and some ideas for things we might experiment with in the future. I hope you enjoy it.
Have a comment on this episode? Email comme
Episode 499: The Ruby on Rails Podcast X Coding Coders
Drew Bragg is the host of Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It. We caught up to bring this special collaboration.
Show Notes
Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It - https://podcast.drbragg.dev/
Sponsors
Honeybadger
As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time ship
Episode 498: Remote Ruby X The Ruby on Rails Podcast
I joined Chris and Jason on Remote Ruby to talk about podcasting, the beauty of the Ruby language, Ruby outside of Rails, and why you should probably be using a state machine. It was so fun getting to talk with them and I hope you enjoy this conversation. And, be sure to subscribe to Remote Ruby!
Show Notes
Remote Ruby - https://www.remoteruby.com/
Sponsors
Honeybadger
As an Engineerin
Episode 497: Rachel Moser on The Odin Project
Rachel is a core contributor to The Odin Project, an open source education project that helps people learn Ruby and Javascript. She joined me on the show to talk about the project, how she became involved, and her role with the team.
Show Notes
The Odin Project - https://www.theodinproject.com/
Rachel's Github - https://github.com/rlmoser99
Sponsors
Honeybadger
As an Engineering Manag
Episode 496: Live From The RubyConf Hallway Track
I attended Ruby Conf and took the opportunity to chat with some attendees about their experience at the conference. This was a super fun experiment and getting to hear from new voices in the community was such a treat. I hope you enjoy it!
Sponsors
Honeybadger
As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error
Episode 495: Marc Reynolds on Packwerk
Marc has been building software for more than two decades, with a particular focus on the medical industry. He’s currently working with Doximity to create tools that make doctors’ lives easier. As an Engineering Manager, one of his primary focuses over the last couple years has been to figure out how to reduce unnecessary code coupling and make the lives of Doximity developers easier. He
Episode 494: Rails World Live! Pt 2 with Nick Schwaderer and Rafael França
Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Rafael França about his work on the Rails Core team and releasing a new version of Rails.
Sponsored By:
Buzzsprout
If you are looking to start a podcast, there's never been a better time. Especially in the Ruby world. If you wanna join that world, use Buzzsprout. They provide hosting for your podcast, help with
Episode 493: Rails World Live! Pt.1 With Nick Schwaderer and Andrew Mason
Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Andrew Mason about podcasting, engaging with the Ruby community, how interest rates impact the tech industry, Turbo , and some of the new things announced at Rails World.
Sponsored By:
Buzzsprout
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Episode 492: Vladimir Dementyev on Layered Design
Vladimir is a backend engineer from Mars, or Evil Martians, a consultancy specialized in product development for startups and developer tools. Vladimir is known for his work on many open-source projects in the Ruby on Rails world, such as AnyCable, Action Policy, TestProf and many more. He recently published the book Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications.
Show Notes
Buy Layered D
Episode 491: Reflecting on Rocky Mountain Ruby with Bekki Freeman
Bekki Freeman has been working with Ruby and Rails for 8 years. Recently, she helped organize the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. She joins Elise this week to reflect on the conference, talk about what it was like organizing, and make some karaoke plans with Elise
Show Notes
Bekki's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekki-freeman/
Tech Friend's: https://www.gettechfriends.com/
Episod
Episode 490: Ruby On Rails As A Career Choice with Olly Headey
Olly Headey joined the show to talk with Elise about his recent blog post concerning the future of Ruby on Rails as a career. We discuss his post, some survey data, and talk about software developers might want to think about this question.
Show Notes:
Ruby on Rails as a career choice in 2023
Olly Headey
Olly's Twitter
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
If you want to simplify your stack, a
Episode 489: Hello, Elise! Goodbye, Brittany.
Elise Shaffer is a trans woman and Staff Software Engineer who loves Ruby and Ruby on Rails. She is also the new host of this podcast! Brittany announces her retirement from the show after a five year run as the host. In this special episode, the pair discuss Brittany's favorite moments from her run, get to know Elise and discuss any upcoming changes for the show.
Show Notes:
The Ruby
Episode 488: Rubyconf 2023 Preview with Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman
Special co-host Kevin Murphy joined Brittany this week to interview Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman, co-chairs of the upcoming Rubyconf 2023 happening in San Diego. The quartet discussed lessons learned from Railsconf 2023, the approach to thinking about and planning this year's Rubyconf and what is new and different at the event.
Show Notes:
Buy Tickets to Rubyconf 2023
Ruby Cen
Episode 487: Building the Rails World Application with Shami Tomita and Eric Halverson
Rails World needed a website! Did you want to be on the small team that helps build it? Shami Tomita and Eric Halverson certainly did and so they came on to the show to talk about their experience and the tech stack behind the conferencing app. Backed by Daniel Rassiner and Cody Norman, the crew talked about supporting Juniors and conference tips.
Show Notes:
Rails World
CasaVolunteerT
Episode 486: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails with Andrew Atkinson
If you love taking about databases, this is the episode for you. Ahead of the launch of his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Andrew Atkinson joined the show with special guest co-host, Pat Bair, to talk about why he wrote a book, why he focused on PostgreSQL and his favorite feature from the upcoming 7.1 release.
Show Notes:
Landing page and newsletter signup for the b
Episode 485: A Ticket Giveaway and Kamal / Kemal (Brittany + Nick)
Nick is heading to Rails World to represent the show and he has a ticket to giveaway to a lucky listener! The pair talk about doing hard things first, the renaming of MRSK to Kamal and then a random deep dive on our show's archives. Check out the show notes for giveaway details!
Show Notes:
The Ruby on Rails Podcast RailsWorld Ticket Contest | Complete by September 2nd, 2023
scarpe-te
Episode 484: Level Up in Learning with Ariel Fogel
Ariel Fogel is a software engineer with an enduring soft spot in his heart for Ruby and Rails. Since graduating from Dev Bootcamp, he has found himself driven by finding ways to improve the quality of education for coders and non-coders alike. Brittany and Ariel discuss how engineers can level up in how they learn.
Show Notes:
Ariel's Personal Site
Agency of Learning
Ariel on Github
Ar
Episode 483: Minimum Viable Answer (Brittany + Jemma)
After celebrating Jemma's newly established status as a Ruby core member, Brittany and Jemma discuss what is happening with Brittany at work, including taking some customer calls. The two hosts also talk about the important skill of being able to know your audience and how to communicate to non-technical stakeholders. They wrap up discussing AI fitness.
Show Notes:
Ruby: Propose Kevin
Episode 482: Everything is Awe(ful)some! (Brittany + Brian)
Even though not a ton has changed in the last 4 months since Brittany and Brian last recorded the State of Rails Hiring, this hiring market is both awful and awesome depending on who you talk to. The duo dig into AI generated cover letters, the good and bad symptoms of what is happening in the economy and specific tactics to help get engineers and employers over the hump.
Show Notes:
Episode 481: Advice on Sunsetting a Rails Application with Robby Russell
There comes a time in almost every software application when it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Robby Russell, CEO of Planet Argon, joins the show to guide Brittany on the steps to take to decommission a Ruby on Rails application. The pair also touch on the idea of how small dev teams would benefit from periodically bringing in "guests" to their codebase.
Show Notes:
Planet Argon
The
Episode 480: Gnarly Rails with Nick Maloney
Nick Maloney is co-founder of The Gnar Company, a full service product consulting shop. Nick and Brittany discuss Gnar's project for the State of Massachusetts to build out an automated background check system. Nick shares why Rails is their default stack and why he is particularly impressed with the direction of the front-end happening in Rails 7.
Show Notes:
The Gnar Company
The Gna
Episode 479: Create What You Want to Exist: Brighton Ruby (Brittany + Nick + Andy)
Brittany and Nick sync up after Nick's one-night-only talk at Brighton Ruby 2023. It wouldn't be a recap without the conference organizer so they were lucky to find Andy Croll free to fill them in on why he continues to run the event and his thoughts on the uptick on conference attendance.
Show Notes:
Brighton Ruby Conference
Andy Croll's personal site
scarpe-diem Discord Server
Spo
Episode 478: The Rails SaaS Conference Recap with Andrew Culver
Andrew Culver is a long-time Rails developer and creator of Bullet Train, a SaaS framework for Rails, and the organizer of The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece. Brittany was excited to have him on the show to talk about his hacker origins, his latest event in Athens, and to discuss why Rails World sold out in 45 minutes.
Show Notes:
Bullet Train: The
Episode 477: YARP has been merged!! (Brittany + Jemma + Kevin)
Mere minutes before this episode was recorded, YARP was merged! Kevin Newton joins Brittany and Jemma this week to share the exciting news. The trio discuss the follow up steps for YARP, whether a marketing push for adoption will be needed and how Kevin and Jemma partnered on the initiative.
Show Notes:
Episode 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton
ru
Episode 476: Career Ladders with Megan Marquardt-Ray
Megan Marquardt-Ray is an Engineering Manager from Included Health. She leads a team of software engineers who build out mobile and web experiences that help people get to high quality healthcare. Before Included Health, she worked at an education startup, bloc, where she first stepped into a managing role. She and Brittany talk about what it means to be a part of a software community, ho
Episode 475: The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby with Spike Ilacqua
Rocky Mountain Ruby is baaaaaack! Conference organizer, Spike Ilacqua, joined Brittany to discuss why he was bringing the conference back to life in Boulder, CO on October 5th and 6th, 2023. They talk about the advice he has gotten, the open CFP and funding the conference. The wrap up talking about how Spike finds AI kinda cool and kinda scary.
Show Notes:
The Return of Rocky Mountain
Episode 474: Ship to Learn (GitHub and AI) with Kyle Daigle
Former host of this podcast, Kyle Daigle is the Chief Operating Officer at GitHub. Kyle joined GitHub in 2013 and built and scaled the Ecosystem Engineering teams and worked on the acquisitions of Semmle, npm, and others. He now oversees culture, operations, and communications for the business. He fills Brittany in on all of the exciting initiatives happening at GitHub: GitHub Accelerator
Episode 473: Personal Branding & Strongly Held BBQ Opinions with Cody Norman
Making his podcast debut, Cody Norman is a former Loan Officer and current Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. He enjoys mentoring, working with early career developers and is an Engineering Mentor at The Agency of Learning. He joins Brittany to discuss personal branding, the importance of showing up every day and how he approaches mentoring early career developers.
Show Notes:
Cody
Episode 472: All I Wanted Was An Environment Variable (thoughtbot) with Victoria Guido and Joe Ferris
Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program.
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thoughtbot
Giant Robots Smash
Episode 471: RubyKaigi 2023 Recap (Brittany + Jemma)
The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP.
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RubyKaigi 2023
Field Report: RubyKaigi
Shopify/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser
Stan Lo
Rbspy
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If you want to
Episode 470: A Smorgasbord of Topics (Brittany + Nick)
Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat.
Show Notes:
Shogun
Geekbot - Run standup meetings in Slack
scarpe-team / scarpe
ChatGPT
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Honeybadger
As an Engineering M
Episode 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live!
Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA.
Guest #1: Aaron Patterson, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Guest #2: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians
Guest #3: Voted on by the community in an online poll: Justin Searls, M
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