The Ruby on Rails Podcast: Recent Episodes

Brittany Martin and Brian Mariani

The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Hosted by Brittany Martin and Brian Mariani. Produced by Mirror Placement. Edited by Peachtree Sound.

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 (https://rubyonrails.org/world) CasaVolunteerTracking.org (https://casavolunteertracking.org/) The Agency of Learning (https://pairing-app-aol.herokuapp.com/) Eric Halverson (@elhalvers) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/elhalvers) Eric on Github (https://github.com/elhalvers) Eric on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elhalverson/) Shami (@Shami941) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/Shami941) Shami on Github (https://github.com/ShamiTomita) Shami on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shami-tomita-rodriguez/) Daniel on Github (https://github.com/toyhammered) Daniel on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drassiner/) Cody's Personal Site (https://www.codynorman.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Rocky Mountain Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/) The Rocky Mountain Ruby conference returns to Boulder, Colorado on October 5th and 6th. Join them for two days of insightful talks from experienced Ruby developers with plenty of opportunities to connect with your Ruby community. Experience a great Ruby conference in a great city! Get you tickets today at Rocky Mountain Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/)

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 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmKPM4k7T7tuid-ZYe5bhP9-136qtVObUKsO5qIo_dX3McSA/viewform) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) scarpe-diem Discord Server (https://discord.com/invite/Ca5EHSsGYp) Github | Rename project to Kamal (https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/pull/423) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 3: Tobias Luettke (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/97) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) 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 shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly) Don’t lose 25% of your efficiency to technical debt. Sign up for FastRuby’s tech debt remediation service, Bonsai and gradually upgrade core dependencies and refactor costly files — starting at $2k/month 🚀 Learn more here (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly).

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 (https://fogel.dev) Agency of Learning (https://agencyoflearning.com) Ariel on Github (https://github.com/afogel) Ariel on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielfogel/) Remote Ruby: Hackathon - Strada - Rails World (https://remoteruby.com/238) daisyUI — Tailwind CSS Components (https://daisyui.com/) activerecord-hackery/ransack: Object-based searching (https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack) Rails Hackathon (https://railshackathon.com/) Introducing the Rails Luminary Awards: Nominations Now Open (https://rubyonrails.org/2023/8/8/introducing-rails-luminaries) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly) Don’t lose 25% of your efficiency to technical debt. Sign up for FastRuby’s tech debt remediation service, Bonsai and gradually upgrade core dependencies and refactor costly files — starting at $2k/month 🚀 Learn more here (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly).

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 Newton and Jemma Issroff as core committers (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19747) ruby/yarp on Github (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Fitbod (https://fitbod.me/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly) Don’t lose 25% of your efficiency to technical debt. Sign up for FastRuby’s tech debt remediation service, Bonsai and gradually upgrade core dependencies and refactor costly files — starting at $2k/month 🚀 Learn more here (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rails-maintenance?utm_source=rorpodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=monthlymaintanence&utm_term=&utm_content=textonly).

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 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/460) Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) 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 shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

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 (https://www.planetargon.com/?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/420) 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/331) How to Decommission Your Ruby on Rails Application | Planet Argon (https://blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries/how-to-decommission-your-ruby-on-rails-application?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) Sunset A Rails Application | Planet Argon (https://www.planetargon.com/services/sunset-a-rails-application?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) Robby on Rails (https://blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries/how-to-decommission-your-ruby-on-rails-application?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) Robby on Mastodon (https://ruby.social/@robbyrussell) Robby on Twitter (https://twitter.com/robbyrussell) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

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 (https://www.thegnar.com/) The Gnar Company Blog (https://www.thegnar.com/blog) Nick Maloney on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasmaloney/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!

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 (https://brightonruby.com/) Andy Croll's personal site (https://andycroll.com/) scarpe-diem Discord Server (https://discord.com/invite/Ca5EHSsGYp) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!

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 Open Source Ruby on Rails SaaS Framework (https://bullettrain.co/) The Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Laravel Spark (https://spark.laravel.com/) Photos from Andrew's Hacker Phase (https://imgur.com/a/lvo7DcK) Indie Rails: Michael Buckbee - Balancing Marketing & Development While Building Wafris (https://www.indierails.com/11) Rails World - 2023 — October 5 & 6 (https://rubyonrails.org/world) Andrew Culver (@andrewculver) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/andrewculver?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) 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 shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

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 (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/385) ruby/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Mirror ruby/yarp into ruby/ruby #7964 (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7964) RubyConf TH 2023 (https://rubyconfth.com/) Kevin Newton (@kddnewton) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/kddnewton?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

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, how to draft career ladders, hiring and how to ensure your engineers are progressing. Show Notes: Included Health - Healthcare Navigation & Virtual Care (https://includedhealth.com/) Included Health Careers (https://includedhealth.com/careers/) Megan Marquardt-Ray on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-marquardt/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Ruby on Rails Security Audit by FastRuby.io (https://t.sidekickopen53.com/Ctc/V+23284/d14fnv04/JlF3pr47W8wLKSR6lZ3ntN189nkvXTcJBW5QXsfV81NG1FW3_88Fr6bjWTDW3B1mkg3mLkmMW1tdTcT341fQsW2H1NYz2JvmYtW11b5T18pQBWCW9791hr3p5gr4W351wrg1Fs8G2W1_C4w53HTBZmW1Qpqyp1TdNDtW98XnTt8dbPCNW6hJpqh2d045qV6DVYG2JP91FW1byP9Q6ds8wvW8DRSCP4D0QSWW7LTQCF2pkf3HVlCcNP7SqmwtW2Tq8qg8VZSzYW7HfY1Y5d997lVfM1q58SW3DCW7-0vpS1ZCGg_W52pslC41WdFHW4-t1y081DXZQVpbGsT8Rq6dRW5xHGhQ25M3bfW4BP6kt5H7S4VW5TpgWw4jwM5Qf2h9tkz04) The cost of a vulnerable code isn’t just potential attackers—it’s insurance hike rates, reputation damage, potential lawsuits, among other costly consequences. With FastRuby’s new service, the Ruby on Rails Security Audit, your application’s code, infrastructure and dependencies will get a full examination. In addition, you will get a comprehensive breakdown of actionable recommendations that will save your development team hours of investigative work. Protect your digital asset. Go to fastruby.io/security-audit (https://t.sidekickopen53.com/Ctc/V+23284/d14fnv04/JlF3pr47W8wLKSR6lZ3ntN189nkvXTcJBW5QXsfV81NG1FW3_88Fr6bjWTDW3B1mkg3mLkmMW1tdTcT341fQsW2H1NYz2JvmYtW11b5T18pQBWCW9791hr3p5gr4W351wrg1Fs8G2W1_C4w53HTBZmW1Qpqyp1TdNDtW98XnTt8dbPCNW6hJpqh2d045qV6DVYG2JP91FW1byP9Q6ds8wvW8DRSCP4D0QSWW7LTQCF2pkf3HVlCcNP7SqmwtW2Tq8qg8VZSzYW7HfY1Y5d997lVfM1q58SW3DCW7-0vpS1ZCGg_W52pslC41WdFHW4-t1y081DXZQVpbGsT8Rq6dRW5xHGhQ25M3bfW4BP6kt5H7S4VW5TpgWw4jwM5Qf2h9tkz04)

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 Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/) Sponsor Rocky Mountain Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/sponsorship/) Rocky Mountain Ruby CFP (https://rockymtnruby.dev/#cfp) Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/) Spike's Blog (https://stuff-things.net/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/blog/monthly-maintenance-services.html?utm_source=rubyonrailspodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=fastrubymonthlymaintenance&utm_content=audio) Operating on an old version of Rails is like wearing an old pair of shoes—sure they get the job done (for now) but you want to replace them before you wear a hole in them. See the full breakdown of our monthly maintenance services and schedule a call with us here (https://www.fastruby.io/blog/monthly-maintenance-services.html?utm_source=rubyonrailspodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=fastrubymonthlymaintenance&utm_content=audio).

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, Github Fund, Github Sponsors and their new research on developer workflow and productivity with AI. Show Notes: 344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/343) GitHub Copilot (https://github.com/features/copilot) Arctic Code Vault (https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/) GitHub Accelerator (https://accelerator.github.com/) GitHub Fund (https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-by-developers-for-developers/) GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors) Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience (https://github.blog/2023-06-13-survey-reveals-ais-impact-on-the-developer-experience/) Wakefield Research (https://wakefieldresearch.com/) Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/kdaigle) Kyle Daigle on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyledaigle/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) 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 shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/blog/monthly-maintenance-services.html?utm_source=rubyonrailspodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=fastrubymonthlymaintenance&utm_content=audio) Operating on an old version of Rails is like wearing an old pair of shoes—sure they get the job done (for now) but you want to replace them before you wear a hole in them. See the full breakdown of our monthly maintenance services and schedule a call with us here (https://www.fastruby.io/blog/monthly-maintenance-services.html?utm_source=rubyonrailspodcast&utm_medium=paidplacement&utm_campaign=fastrubymonthlymaintenance&utm_content=audio).

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 Norman's Blog (https://www.codynorman.com/) First Ruby Friend: Find a mentor in the Ruby community (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) The Agency of Learning (https://agencyoflearning.com/) cnorm35 - Cody Norman - Twitter (https://twitter.com/cnorm35?lang=en) Cody Norman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-norman-26832027/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Live from Providence, RI, it is the Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel! Panelists from different community podcasts come together to discuss their experiences at the conference, field questions from the audience attendees and of course, mention their upcoming talks they were giving at the conference. Moderated By: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast(https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/) Panelists: Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard(https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Drew Bragg, Code and the Coding Coders who Code it(https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Joël Quenneville, The Bikeshed(https://www.bikeshed.fm/) Julie J, Ruby for All(https://www.rubyforall.com/) A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf Mini for making this panel happen: Jemma Issroff, Emily Samp and Andy Croll. Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

It's back and now a tradition! It's the Holiday Gift Guide episode where Brittany and Nick share their picks for gifts that might appeal to a developer in your life. Brittany's Picks Philips Hue: Smart lighting (https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us) Gold Neutral Recorder Button (https://www.amazon.com/Neutral-Recorder-Recordable-Education-Batteries/dp/B07MQXQWBB) Cirkul Water Bottle | Brittany's Referral Link to Save $ (https://drinkcirkul.com/share/Brittany-V6240301580378) Felix Gray Blue Light Glasses (https://felixgray.com/collections/blue-light-glasses) Wizard Zines by Julia Evans (https://wizardzines.com/) Nick's Picks Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs (https://rebuilding-rails.com/) AWS IoT Button (https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/) Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought (https://roamresearch.com/) Steam Deck (https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck) Lava Lamp (https://www.lavalamp.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.

Kevin Su ditched college to pursue the venture-backed startup dream, but found his calling running a small, bootstrapped and profitable SaaS business called Clearscope. Together, Brittany, Brian and Kevin discuss why Rails is the perfect launching pad for SaaS businesses, the tech stack Clearscope has chosen and how they approach hiring. Show Notes & Links: Clearscope (https://www.clearscope.io/) Kalzumeus Software - patio11 (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) Start Small, Stay Small (https://startsmall.com/) Senior/Lead Full-stack Software Engineers at Clearscope (https://angel.co/company/clearscopeio/jobs/2261957-full-stack-software-engineers-all-levels) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Roman Turner is a classically trained French chef turned developer. He's now a Software Developer at America's Test Kitchen. He and Brittany discuss personal branding, attracting and keeping members in the Ruby/Rails community and advice for junior developers seeking their first role. Show Notes & Links: America's Test Kitchen (https://www.americastestkitchen.com/) Jeweler’s Apprentice (http://jewelers-apprentice.com/) Roman (@scoop_law) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/scoop_law) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.

An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results. Show Notes & Links: Episode 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/307) Sierra Rails (https://www.sierrarails.com/) Exposing your Ignorance by Sierra Rails (https://anchor.fm/sierra-rails) Dave Paola (@dpaola2) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/dpaola2) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Meg Gutshall is a Ruby on Rails application developer at Penn Medicine with a passion for open source. Brittany asks Meg about her love of Virtual Coffee, her fond memories of Mike Rogers and her role as a core team member of Ruby for Good. Show Notes & Links: Penn Medicine (https://www.pennmedicine.org/) Virtual Coffee (https://virtualcoffee.io/) Ruby for Good (https://rubyforgood.org/) meg_gutshall - Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/meg_gutshall) meg-gutshall (Meg Gutshall) - GitHub (https://github.com/meg-gutshall) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

Object Shapes is merged and headed to Ruby 3.2! Fresh off of her world tour, Jemma catches up with Brittany about RubyKaigi, Euroku and Rails SaaS. After talking about Rubyconf Mini plans, the pair discuss the new Data.define feature coming to Ruby 3.2 as well. Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf Mini Tickets (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rubyconf-mini-providence-rhode-island-registration-414698754137) Implement Object Shapes #6386 by jemmaissroff (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6386) Add Data class implementation: Simple immutable value object #6353 by zverok (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6353) New in Ruby 3.2 - Data.define (https://dev.to/baweaver/new-in-ruby-32-datadefine-2819) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Andy Croll is back and he has something to say. Brittany and Andy chat from their cupboards about My First Ruby Friend, bringing yourself to work, Apple note driven development and Rubyconf Mini. They spend the rest of the episode on Andy's podcast pitch. Show Notes & Links: My First Ruby Friend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll (https://andycroll.com/ruby/) Rubyconf Mini 2022 (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Andy Croll (@andycroll) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/andycroll?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Reunited and it feels so good! Friend of the show and host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, Drew Bragg, is back today. Together, he and Brittany discuss the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference and their goals for attending. They also hash out Drew's game show talk for Rubyconf Mini and how he is straddling a Rails upgrade and ViewComponent upgrade at work. Show Notes & Links: Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Rubyconf Mini (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) ViewComponent (https://viewcomponent.org/) MaterialUI (https://mui.com/) Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/drbragg) Paul Bahr (@PaulEditsPods) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/PaulEditsPods) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

After diving into CrossFit and their favorite comfort foods, Nick and Brittany talk all things conferences: RubyKaigi 2022, Rails SaaS and Rubyconf 2022. Nick ends the episode by sharing some cool Rails upgrade tooling he is working on. Show Notes & Links: CrossFit (https://www.crossfit.com/) RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Rubyconf 2022 (https://rubyconf.org/) Rubyconf Mini 2022 (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

Brittany returns to the the Rubber Duck Dev Show! In this episode, Chris and Creston discuss the different viewpoints and objectives for engineering managers vs. product managers with Brittany Martin & Josh Gaastra. Show Notes & Links: Rubber Duck Dev Show | Wednesdays at 8p EST (https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

Joel Schlundt is the CTO of TextUs and Brittany's boss. After diving into two origin stories, the pair discuss the Senior Backend Engineer role they are hiring for, applications they never want to build again and the importance of off-sites for remote teams. They cap the conversation off with a horror story. Announcements The Ruby on Rails Podcast Store (https://the-ruby-on-rails-podcast.myspreadshop.com/all?listModeOverride=DESIGN) Fun original designs like “Tell Me Your Developer Origin Story”, “Ruby is Badass”, “Ruby on Tails” and “the Established in Rails” series in shirts, hoodies, magnets, stickers and bandanas. Net proceeds of store purchases benefit Steptember, to raise funds for research and innovation for cerebral palsy. From Wednesday, September 14th through Saturday, September 17th 2022, all customers get free standard shipping on all orders. This does include international standard shipping. Shop here (https://the-ruby-on-rails-podcast.myspreadshop.com/all?listModeOverride=DESIGN). Show Notes & Links: Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ TextUs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/textus/jobs/4645583004) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

Jemma, one of the co-organizers of RubyConf Mini, chats with Brittany on why she decided to organize RubyConf Mini (November 15 - November 17, 2022 in Providence, Rhode Island). The two co-hosts discuss CFPs, organizing challenges and more importantly, who should consider attending RubyConf Mini. They also celebrate Jemma getting her Japanese visa for RubyKaigi 2022. Show Notes & Links: RubyConf Mini (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

The tech industry is in unprecedented times with the amount of layoffs happening. Brittany and Brian share their personal layoff stories and offer some advice to laid off employees, retained employees and companies. While empathizing with the shock layoffs cause, the duo offer some silver linings. Show Notes & Links: Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs-2022/) Layoffs.fyi Tracker (http://layoffs.fyi/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

Brittany welcomes John Crepezzi, founder of All Aboard Bootcamp, on to the show. After geeking out over John's storied career path through Ruby (including the ISMs at Genius) the two dive into why and how John created a free Ruby/Rails/JS bootcamp for under-represented groups. Show Notes & Links: GitHub - ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube: Ruby Date Recurrence Library (https://github.com/ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube) The Genius ISM’s (https://www.dugcampbell.com/the-genius-isms/) All Aboard Bootcamp (https://allaboardbootcamp.com/) John's Twitch Stream (https://www.twitch.tv/seejohnrun) John Crepezzi (@seejohnrun) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/seejohnrun?lang=en) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

Mina Slater is a developer on Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps and SRE team and serves as a Scholarship program organizer with Ruby Central. Mina details why it is humbling to embrace the cloud and what SRE means. She and Brittany then share their hot takes consulting versus working on a product team. Show Notes & Links: thoughtbot Mission Control (https://thoughtbot.com/mission-control) Site Reliability Engineering: Google (https://sre.google/) Mina Slater (@minar528) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/minar528) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

After congratulating Jemma on her talk acceptance to RubyKaigi, the duo discuss how to handle when a co-worker is departing. From handling communication to acknowledging the importance of the departing, it's a topic that should resonate with many developers. They wrap up exclaiming over first #rubyfriend. Show Notes & Links: RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Hire Me: I'm Excellent at Quitting by Brittany Martin - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0yGI7sKgI) first #rubyfriend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Brittany guested on the Rubber Duck Dev Show, a livestream with two Rubyists (Chris & Creston) who chat live about all the aspects of development. They talk over the origins of how Brittany became the host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast and their thoughts and struggles on project management. Show Notes & Links: Rubber Duck Dev Show | Wednesdays at 8p EST (https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

Irina Nazarova is the CEO of Evil Martians, a consulting company known as authors of PostCSS, AnyCable, imgproxy, and many blog posts and tutorials. She and Brittany discuss both her developer and CEO origin stories, sustainable opensource, leading really talented developers and Google Apps Script. Show Notes & Links: Evil Martians (https://evilmartians.com/) whitequark/parser: A Ruby parser. - GitHub (https://github.com/whitequark/parser) All of the Evil Martians's Open Source Libraries (https://github.com/evilmartians) Google Apps Script (https://developers.google.com/apps-script) Irina Nazarova (@inazarova) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/inazarova) Support Ukraine: Nova Ukraine (https://novaukraine.org/) Razom for Ukraine (https://www.razomforukraine.org/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

Nick is officially an influencer! After Nick accidentally launched a co-host of Rubyists learning Japanese (including Brittany!), the duo chat about learning styles and recommended podcasts. Oh, and upgrade your Rails applications, listeners! Show Notes & Links: Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/) akr / all-ruby (https://github.com/akr/all-ruby) Leetcode (https://leetcode.com/) Naming Things (https://www.namingthings.org/) Rubber Duck Dev Show (https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/) Rails Versions 7.0.3.1, 6.1.6.1, 6.0.5.1, and 5.2.8.1 have been released! (https://rubyonrails.org/2022/7/12/Rails-Versions-7-0-3-1-6-1-6-1-6-0-5-1-and-5-2-8-1-have-been-released) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast).

Making her podcast debut, Julie J is a junior engineer at Codecademy from Skillsoft. Julie answers Brittany's questions about how she learned to code, her role at Codecademy and her involvement in the Neurodivergent ERG at Codecademy. Then, Julie reveals her plans for a new podcast in the Ruby community! Show Notes & Links: Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com) Code in Place (https://codeinplace.stanford.edu/) All Aboard Bootcamp (https://allaboardbootcamp.com/) Julie (@codewithjulie) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/codewithjulie) Ruby for All (@rubyforall) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/rubyforall) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Moderated By: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin) Panelists: Aaron Francis, Framework Friends (https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis) Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard (https://twitter.com/andycroll) Brian Mariani, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Drew Bragg, Coding Coders (https://twitter.com/DRBragg) Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Show Notes & Links: Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Enchanté. Aurelie Verrot is a developer originally from France who now lives in California. She is Software Engineer at Zendesk, working in the i18n team. She answers all of Brittany's questions about working at Zendesk, translating the beloved Women On Rails newsletter and VirtualCoffee.io. Show Notes & Links: General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly) Zendesk (https://www.zendesk.com/) Women On Rails Newsletter (https://womenonrails.substack.com/) VirtualCoffee.io (https://virtualcoffee.io/) Hacktoberfest (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) Aurelie Verrot (@LiliVerrot) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/liliverrot) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brittany and Nick took a foray into handheld console gaming before celebrating Nick's new role at Shopify on the Ruby/Rails Infra team. They chatted about their favorite parts of Railsconf including Nick's Ruby Archaeology talk and Shopify's Railsconf Afterparty Twitter Space. Also, Past Rubies is back! Show Notes & Links: Unofficial RailsConf Afterparty today on Twitter Spaces | Shopify (https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1529182404060950528) Euruko 2022 CFP (https://2022.euruko.org/cfp/) RubyKaigi 2022 CFP (https://cfp.rubykaigi.org/events/2022) Ruby Weekly Issue 606 | Panel Feature (https://rubyweekly.com/issues/606) Past Rubies Subscription Signup (http://pastrubies.live/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brittany had questions about how to contribute to Ruby but luckily, Jemma was here to explain the process and explain her most recent proposal: Object shapes for Ruby. Object shapes are a technique for representing properties of an object. The two then debate reaching sustainable open source software. Show Notes & Links: Feature #18776: Object Shapes (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18776) Stripe Press — Working in Public (https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public) GitHub user sends notification to 400k users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061) Open Source is Not About You by Richard Hickey (https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

David Hill is a Staff Software Engineer with CareRev. He just gave his first ever conference presentation at RailsConf 2022, titled “React-ing to Hotwire”. He is thinking about starting a podcast (yes!) so he asks Brittany her thoughts on co-hosts and topics. Show Notes & Links: React-ing to Hotwire | Railsconf 2022 (https://railsconf.org/program/sessions#session-1303) The Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Railsconf Guide (https://railsconf.org/scholarships) David Hill on Twitter (@DavidEsmale) (https://twitter.com/DavidEsmale) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Live from Portland, OR is the Ruby Podcast Panel recording from Railsconf 2022! The panelists discuss why they are loyal to podcasting, the state of the Ruby and Rails communities, opening doors for juniors into our industry and themes they noted from the conference. Moderated By: Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Panelists: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin) Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/schwad_rb) Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes) Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Chris Oliver, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/excid3) Andrew Culver, Framework Friends (https://twitter.com/andrewculver) Colleen Schnettler, Software Social Podcast (https://twitter.com/leenyburger) Robby Russell, Maintainable Podcast (https://twitter.com/robbyrussell) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brian is back with his insights on how the Rails hiring market is fairing, the differences between JS and Rails recruiting, whether avoiding whiteboarding is a good sign and how companies can effectively evaluate potential developers. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) poteto / hiring-without-whiteboards (https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Andrea Fomera is a Senior Software Developer at Podia who finds enjoyment in updating dependencies and crafting high quality, robust and maintainable code. She and Brittany flash forward to Railsconf Day 2 to discuss Andrea's talk, goals for the conference and an epic quest to find the best donut in Portland. Show Notes & Links: Andrea's Personal Site (https://afomera.dev) Andrea Fomera (@afomera) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/afomera) Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum (https://store.afomera.dev/learn-hotwire) Podia (https://www.podia.com/) WNB.rb (https://www.wnb-rb.dev/) Sponsored By: AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Fresh off of treading water in a sweatsuit for a swim test, Brittany called up Jemma to do a live brainstorm for the Railsconf 2022 Podcast Panel. After discussing Jemma's team trip to London for Shopify, they go over the panel participants, moderation strategies and potential topics. Show Notes & Links: Railsconf 2022 COVID Policy (https://railsconf.com/covid) Ruby Podcast @ Railsconf 2022 on Day 1 (https://railsconf.com/schedule) Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/) Framework Friends (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Maintainable (https://www.maintainable.fm/) Software Social (https://softwaresocial.dev/) WNB.rb (https://www.wnb-rb.dev/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Steve Lynch is an Engineering Manager at Root Insurance, working with a full-stack team on a Rails and React stack. Brittany invited Steve on to the show to discuss Engineering Management and his Rubyconf talk, "I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts" so she could tackle some texts on her bookshelf. Show Notes & Links: Voulez-Vous with Zach and Steve (https://voulezvouscast.tumblr.com/) I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts by Steve Lynch | Rubyconf 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnB74T9saN4) Ruby Under a Microscope (https://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope) Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/414) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger is exception, uptime, and cron monitoring, all in one place — and easily installed in your web app. Deploy with confidence and be your team's devops hero. They now have status pages and can monitor SSL certs. They just shipped an update that can help communicate outages to your customers: public status pages with custom domains and branding. Learn more at https://www.honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).

Andrew Strovers is a Senior Software Engineer out of Omaha, Nebraska. Being that he has serious opinions on trust and communication in the workplace, he was the perfect guest to discuss retros: how to reward vulnerability, adjust to the remote components and incorporate fun. Show Notes & Links: UpDog (https://updogchallenge.com/) Nathan Knisley on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanknisley/) Andrew Strovers on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adstrovers/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0) mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0) is an online tool for safe email testing in dev and staging environments. Set up in less than 5 minutes to assess the deliverability of an email and share results with team members, check if there are any mistakes with the HTML and CSS validation. Send Emails and monitor their performance with the new Sending Solution. Explore these and many other functions of Mailtrap. Get started for free at mailtrap.io (https://bit.ly/3L52GI0).

Brittany interviews Drew Bragg, the Staff Engineer at Within3 and the host of the new Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast about his origin, his love of the Ruby community and their experience at Sin City Ruby. The pair then switch host seats and Drew interviews Brittany about her love of burpees, what she is working on, her blockers and what she currently finds interesting. Show Notes & Links: With3 (https://within3.com/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Podcast (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjviPuTopn3AhXkT98KHakMBNwQFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1927628&usg=AOvVaw2rx5vPOPVNs7WZfQ4dLXqO) Remote Ruby | Its Always Sinny In Las Vegas aka Sin City Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/174) TextUs Careers (https://textus.com/jobs/) Framework Friends Podcast (https://www.frameworkfriends.com/) Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/DRBragg) Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/brittjmartin) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Joe Masilotti is an independent developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and automated testing. He helps clients port their Rails apps to iOS with Turbo Native. Brittany and Brian talk with Joe about building railsdevs in public, the challenges he has faced and the technical decisions he is proud of. They wrap up by discussing Joe's upcoming "Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native" workshop he has been inspired to do. Show Notes & Links: railsdevs - The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers (https://railsdevs.com/) railsdevs on Github (https://github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.com) Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti) Hotwire dev newsletter (https://masilotti.com/hotwire/) Joe's tweet about Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native workshop (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti/status/1507100497286610953) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Emily is guesting as co-host this week with Jemma and Brittany! The trio celebrate Emily's new role at Shopify and discuss taking breaks between roles. Emily and Brittany just wrapped up reviewing CFPs for Railsconf so Jemma asks them about the patterns they observed. They wrap up by talking about their (not) green thumbs and home desk setups. Show Notes & Links: Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby (https://sorbet.org/) Jemma's Tweet to Ruby Central (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff/status/1499096595282870273) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brittany and Nick gush about their long awaited reunion at Sin City Ruby in Las Vegas. They talk about talk prep, hype music, and even costume changes. After discussing how to pull off a company onsite and remote whiteboarding, they wrap by sharing their thoughts on "No Railsconf". Show Notes & Links: Sin City Ruby (https://www.sincityruby.com/) Miro (https://miro.com/) Figjam (https://www.figma.com/figjam/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1927628) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Ufuk is the Engineering Manager of the Ruby Infrastructure team (Jemma's team!) at Shopify. After transitioning his career from physics to software development, Ufuk has had the fortune of working with lots of interesting technologies at various levels of the stack. He, Jemma and Brittany chat about management philosophies, why he remains excited about Ruby and what is the ideal role for Shopify in the larger Ruby ecosystem. Show Notes & Links: Shopify / maintenance_tasks (https://github.com/Shopify/maintenance_tasks/) Shopify / yjit (https://github.com/Shopify/yjit) Sorbet (https://sorbet.org/) Ufuk Kayserilioglu (@paracycle) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/paracycle) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Jennifer Konikowski had been doing mostly Rails since 2012, though is currently taking a detour and working in Go at Splice. She and Brittany talk about what lead her to Pittsburgh, her fitness journey and tips. Show Notes & Links: Splice (https://splice.com/) Jaybird (https://www.jaybirdsport.com/) PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells (https://powerblock.com/) The Peloton App (https://www.onepeloton.com/app) Strava (https://www.strava.com/) TrainingPeaks | Reclaim Your Race Day (https://www.trainingpeaks.com/) Strong - Workout Tracker & Gym Log (https://www.strong.app/) Workout of the Day | Concept2 Rowing Machines (https://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/training/wod) Jennifer Konikowski (@jenkoni) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/jenkoni) Jennifer’s Website (https://www.jenniferkonikowski.com/) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals. Show Notes & Links: 202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/202) PlanetScale - The Database for Developers (https://planetscale.com) GitHub - vitessio/vitess (https://github.com/vitessio/vitess) CrossFit Games: The Open (https://games.crossfit.com/) Rogue Stock Bot - Real Time Restock Alerts - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKESbsFiiqw) Brianna Lamb - Functional Bodybuilding (https://functional-bodybuilding.com/brianna/) TrueCoach: #1 Personal Trainer Software (https://truecoach.co/) WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach (https://www.whoop.com/) ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool (https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/ConnectionPool.html) Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/mscccc) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo, the duo behind hevdevs, join Brittany to discuss their new course launch "Get to Senior", sharing your career goals with your manager and how to feel like a promotion was deserved. Show Notes & Links: Get to Senior Crash Course (https://www.hexdevs.com/senior-crash-course/) Get to Senior (https://academy.hexdevs.com/view/courses/get-to-senior) hexdevs Interview with Brittany Martin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRxjC02nO8) Buy Get to Senior (10% off) (https://academy.hexdevs.com/) Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/stefannibrasil) Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/thdaraujo) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Tanner Johnson, Engineer, and Nick Gervasi, CTO, of Flowdash join Brittany to talk about why they chose Rails, how customers deploy their app on premise and the design of their internal users dashboard. They wrap up discussing the perks and challenges of all engineers being involved in growth, sales, and marketing at Flowdash. Show Notes & Links: Flowdash (https://flowdash.com/) Flowdash on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRJMTIpHkOrbSAaWwl9Ilfg/videos) How we automated new user insights — in 10 minutes | Flowdash (https://flowdash.com/blog/customer-insights) Tanner Johnson on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerljohnson/) Nick Gervasi on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-gervasi/) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Ben Greenberg is a second career developer who previously spent a decade in the fields of adult education, community organizing, and non-profit management. He works as a lead developer relations engineer at New Relic by day and is building hirethePIVOT, a reverse job board for career changers, at night. Show Notes & Links: On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s by Ben Greenberg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YhBMu43Lm4) hirethePIVOT (https://hirethepivot.com/) Hummus on Rails (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/hummusonrails) Ben Greenberg (@RabbiGreenberg) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/RabbiGreenberg) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

After a campy true crime start, Brittany and Jemma recap Brittany's first full marathon, Brittany's promotion to Engineering Manager and Jemma brings up the exciting news of YJIT porting to Rust. They wrap up by discussing the tracks for the Railsconf 2022 CFP. Start applying! Show Notes & Links: Feature #18481: Porting YJIT to Rust (request for feedback) (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18481) Railsconf 2022 CFP (https://cfp.rubycentral.org/events/railsconf-2022) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Damian Galarza is the VP of Engineering at Buoy Software. Buoy is building software for good — connected intelligence that unlocks more plasma supply. Brittany, Brian and Damian discuss scaling engineering culture and reflect on technical decisions in a post Rails 7 world. Show Notes & Links: Buoy Software (https://www.buoysoftware.com/) Damian Galarza (@dgalarza) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/dgalarza) Buoy Software on Github (https://github.com/BuoySoftware) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

What is an Engineering Lead without her UX Designer? Nikki "Pancakes" LeServe, Senior UX Designer at Textus, joined Brittany to discuss her UX origin story and to respond to Brittany's controversial UX theories. Should design by committee die? Should Bootstrap ever be used? Should some stuff be designed to be difficult to use? Tune in. Show Notes & Links: How to Get to Senior | HexDevs | 10% Discount (https://academy.hexdevs.com/?coupon=RUBY-ON-RAILS-PODCAST) How to avoid ‘design by committee’ and why you should at all costs (https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-avoid-design-by-committee-and-why-you-should-at-all-costs-8e8ce78c1058) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions. Show Notes & Links: Sin City Ruby (https://www.sincityruby.com/) Get Your Conference Proposal Accepted - Schneems (https://schneems.com/blogs/2016-04-07-conference-proposal) Gusto/apollo-federation-ruby - GitHub (https://github.com/Gusto/apollo-federation-ruby) meeoh - GitHub (https://github.com/meeoh) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Joining Brittany to celebrate episode 400(!), Collin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails Developer at GoRails. They discuss why he committed to Rails so early in his career, his various ambitious projects (Ruby Radar, fleur de ruby), his love of the community and what his new role will entail. Show Notes & Links: fleur de ruby (@fleurderuby) (https://twitter.com/fleur_de_ruby) Ruby Radar (https://rubyradar.dev/?via=twitter-profile-webview) GoRails (https://gorails.com/) Jumpstart Pro (https://jumpstartrails.com/) pay-rails/pay: Payments for Ruby on Rails apps - GitHub (https://github.com/pay-rails/pay) Collin (@collin_jilbert) (https://twitter.com/collin_jilbert) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. JetBrains RubyMine (https://jb.gg/rubyonrailspodcast) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE for Ruby and Rails developers. Head over to jb.gg/RubyOnRailsPodcast (https://jb.gg/rubyonrailspodcast) for a 20% discount on a JetBrains IDE of your choosing and a chance to win a one-year personal subscription. This offer will be valid for one month following the release of this episode.

Will Ruby 3.1 drop on Christmas (spoiler: it did!)? Jemma and Brittany catch up with the changes from this past year, talk about some resolutions they are planning for 2022 and whether the pursuit for mediocrity should be one of them. Oh yes, they also touch on the release of Rails 7. Show Notes & Links: Ruby 3.1.0 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/12/25/ruby-3-1-0-released/) WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/wnb_rb) In Praise of Mediocrity (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-mediocrity.html) Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision (https://rubyonrails.org/2021/12/15/Rails-7-fulfilling-a-vision) Sponsored By: Hook Relay (https://www.hookrelay.dev/) Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

It's a The Ruby on Rails Podcast x Remote Ruby collab! Brittany is joined with Jason Charnes and Andrew Mason so they can interview the editor of their shows, Paul Bahr, on how he got into podcast editing and the tools you need to get started. Find out the answers to fascinating questions such as: what is everyone's filler word? Is there really room for more podcasts? Are Ruby podcasts a great palate cleanser after editing true crime? A fun episode to record, we hope you enjoy listening. Show Notes & Links: Paul Bahr on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbahr/) Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Descript (https://www.descript.com/) How to Start a Podcast: Step by Step (https://www.buzzsprout.com/how-to-make-a-podcast?gclid=Cj0KCQiAnuGNBhCPARIsACbnLzqK-q3veNwWoyEC5ah5QXmMsp2hmKNIrDKL8ZVhQEVepDe2gUaBjaAaAqxqEALw_wcB) Best Day/Time to Publish Your Podcast (https://www.megaphone.fm/resources/what-time-should-you-publish-your-podcast) Paul’s Favorite $100 Mics: Rode NT-USB-Mini USB Microphone with Detachable Magnetic Stand (https://www.amazon.com/Rode-NT-USB-Mini-Microphone-Detachable-Headphone/dp/B084P1CXFD/ref=sxin_14_ac_d_bv?ac_md=0-0-QmVzdCBWYWx1ZQ%3D%3D-ac_d_bv_bv_bv&cv_ct_cx=rode+nt+usb+mic&keywords=rode+nt+usb+mic&pd_rd_i=B084P1CXFD&pd_rd_r=05767698-3673-4cdb-a720-e11aa7c865c1&pd_rd_w=TkBCM&pd_rd_wg=8cTBM&pf_rd_p=148e9898-1bed-4a70-9840-46f32e4185bd&pf_rd_r=SESWYERNH7GKHBKV7TE7&psc=1&qid=1639497572&sr=1-1-f4ff053e-b1e8-4d31-8f95-56d755c862ba) Blue Yeti USB Mic (https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Blackout/dp/B00N1YPXW2/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=XB5Y9JX4CS4I&keywords=blue%2Byeti%2Busb%2Bmic&qid=1639497630&s=musical-instruments&sprefix=blue%2Byeti%2Cmi%2C177&sr=1-1-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFaTUxaODNITERLVzUmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAxMjU0NTUyMTM1U05DTVRLN1BTJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAyNDkxMzlNWVhNRDVLSUk4Nlomd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl&th=1) Paul’s Favorite Online Recording Platforms: Riverside (https://riverside.fm/) Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/) Zoom (https://zoom.us/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

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Victor David Santos is a fullstack Engineer at Tremendous and the creator of the Ruby platformer, Super Bombinhas. Victor joined Brittany to share insights on game development in Ruby, how to publish a game to Steam and how generous the gaming community can be. Show Notes & Links: Tremendous (https://www.tremendous.com/) The Ocra Gem (https://github.com/larsch/ocra) The Gosu Library (https://github.com/gosu/gosu) The MiniGL Library (https://github.com/victords/minigl) MiniGL Tutorials (https://www.devsv.com.br/ruby/minigl/2019/05/27/developing-games-with-ruby-and-minigl-part-1.html) Super Bombinhas on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553840/Super_Bombinhas/) victords / super-bombinhas (https://github.com/victords/super-bombinhas) Victor's Itch Page (https://victords.itch.io/) Victor on Github (https://github.com/victords) Victor David Santos (@VictorDS92) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/victords92) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Zachery Hostens is a Senior Rails Engineer at TextUs. He is a self taught techie to his core, who tries to have his hands in all the cookie jars. He and Brittany discuss what it was like working as Wells Fargo as a Rails engineer, how he landed at TextUs and some strategies on finding the hidden Rails developers out there. Show Notes & Links: Zachery Hostens on Github (https://github.com/zacheryph) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts. Brittany's Picks Code & Supply Coding Pennants (https://codeandsupply.storenvy.com/collections/1392656-coding-pennants) Jumpstart Pro (https://jumpstartrails.com/pricing?ck_subscriber_id=361084039) Chill Pill V4 (https://www.etsy.com/listing/793151627/chill-pill-v4?ref=shop_home_feat_4&pro=1) LL Bean Tech Tote (https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/111891) Monolisa Font (https://www.monolisa.dev/) Scribd (https://www.scribd.com/g/6oin5k) Nick's Picks SKÅDIS (IKEA) (https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skadis-pegboard-white-10321618/) Wired Magazine Subscription (https://www.wired.co.uk/subscribe) Ergodox EZ (https://ergodox-ez.com/) Tailwind UI Components (https://tailwindui.com/pricing) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brittany and Jemma record right after Rubyconf 2021 so they could share their experiences and favorite talks both in-person and virtual. Oh, also, this is now a running podcast. Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf 2021 (https://rubyconf.org/) Introducing: MemoWise (https://medium.com/building-panorama-education/introducing-memowise-51a5f0523489) Talks Discussed: Achieving fast method metaprogramming: lessons from MemoWise by Jemma Issroff, Jacob Evelyn (https://rubyconf.org/program/sessions#session-1215) Minimize Your Circus Factor: Building Resilient Teams by Mercedes Bernard (https://rubyconf.org/program/sessions#session-1173) Managing Up: Strategies for Leveling Up by Mina Slater (https://rubyconf.org/program/sessions#session-1174) On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s by Ben Greenbug (https://rubyconf.org/program/sessions#session-1159) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Recorded live from Rubyconf 2021 in Denver, CO with an audience! Panelists from The Ruby on Rails Podcast, Code with Jason and Remote Ruby gathered to chat about why they were excited to attend Rubyconf, favorite episodes and to field listener questions. Moderated By: Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast () Panelists: Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes) Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Jason Swett, Code with Jason (https://twitter.com/JasonSwett) Emily Giurleo, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/EmilyGiurleo) Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://twitter.com/Schwad4HD14) Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf 2021 (https://rubyconf.org/) WNB.rb (https://twitter.com/wnb_rb) Ruby5: A Twice-Weekly 5 Minute Ruby News Podcast (http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby5-ruby-news-podcast-2441.html) Ruby Weekly (https://rubyweekly.com/?m) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

No holiday break on the recruiting front! Brittany and Brian catch up on the Rails recruiting trends. They discuss how companies need to up the ante now that so many are remote first, how interviews should be structured and whether it is worth getting in the door, if it is not for the role you want. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Rubyconf 2021 Job Fair (https://rubyconf.org) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Justin Searls helped start Test Double—a software agency of experienced developers who work with clients to build great software together, as a team. He gave Brittany the scoop on Mocktail, an opinionated alternative to minitest's mocks, rr, mocha, and rspec-mocks. As a bonus: he offers his insights and advice on being a confident speaker. Show Notes & Links: testdouble/mocktail (https://github.com/testdouble/mocktail) Test Double | An Agency Improving the World's Software (https://testdouble.com/) Mockito framework site (https://site.mockito.org/) Jim Weirich's Tweet (https://twitter.com/jimweirich/status/77124604602228737) searls/gimme (https://github.com/searls/gimme) jimweirich/flexmock (https://github.com/jimweirich/flexmock) Please don't mock me - Justin Searls - JSConf US 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8sKpJwq6lY) VCR - GitHub (https://github.com/vcr/vcr) How to Make a Gem of a Gem (https://blog.testdouble.com/talks/2021-11-10-how-to-make-a-gem-of-a-gem/) Justin Searls (@searls) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/searls) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of OmbuLabs, the Ruby on Rails development shop behind FastRuby.io. He comes back to the podcast to talk about code quality: what it is, what it is perceived to be and what its like to maintain a few Ruby code quality gems, including ruby-critic and skunk. Show Notes & Links: OmbuLabs :: The Lean Software Boutique (https://www.ombulabs.com/) FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/) 309: Upgrading Rails & Skunk for Scoring with Ernesto Tagwerker (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/309) rails_stats (https://github.com/fastruby/rails_stats) rubycritic (https://github.com/whitesmith/rubycritic) skunk (https://github.com/fastruby/skunk) metric_fu (https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu) Eight Dimensions of Quality (https://www.toolshero.com/quality-management/eight-dimensions-of-quality/) The Code Quality Challenge - Tuple.app (https://tuple.app/code-quality-challenge) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Jason Taylor returns! Together, Brittany and Jason discuss his recent promotion to Dev Ops Lead at TextUs, how fluent in the stack you need to be to make operational decisions and the Rubyconf sessions they are excited to attend. Show Notes & Links: OpenTelemetry (https://opentelemetry.io/) Rubyconf Program (http://rubyconf.org/program) Careers at TextUs (https://textus.com/jobs/) JT (@thetizzo) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/thetizzo?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

After Emma's blog post, "Ruby is Still a Diamond", took the software engineering world by storm, Brittany and Jemma invited Emma on to the show (her podcast debut!) to ruminate why she continues to be excited about Ruby, why you should invest the effort into upgrading to Ruby 3.0, the differences between parallelism & concurrency and an introduction to Ractors. Show Notes & Links: Ruby is Still a Diamond by Emma Hyde (https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond-b789d2661266) Dockwa (https://dockwa.com/) Retention Science (https://www.retentionscience.com/) Emma Hyde on Medium (https://medium.com/@emmajhyde) Emma Hyde (@emmahyde) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/emmahyde?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).

Bruno Miranda is responsible for leading Doximity’s engineering teams across the areas of data, mobile, infrastructure, and web engineering. Bruno architected the earliest versions of the company’s core software platform and lead efforts to build out a highly resilient technology stack. Brian and Brittany inquire what the responsibilities of a VP of Engineering are, the proper way to onboard a new engineer and how to approach building distributed engineering teams. Rails can scale. Show Notes & Links: Doximity, Inc. - GitHub (https://github.com/doximity) Work @ Doximity (https://workat.doximity.com/) Bruno's Personal Site (https://brunomiranda.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

It's a family affair! Danny Issroff, Jemma's older brother, visited the show to discuss all things product management. Jemma and Brittany quizzed him about how developers can understand product, advice for aspiring PMs and why developers are a precious resource. Show Notes & Links: Special Discount for Ruby Garbage Collection in Under Two Hours (jemma.dev/book/therubyonrailspodcast) Contact Jemma to talk to Danny (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Kevin Newton is a staff engineer at Shopify on the Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. He’s working on improving the speed and efficiency of CRuby. The trio (Kevin, Nick and Brittany) discuss RubyKaiji talks, Kevin's work on the Prettier plug-in for Ruby and RegularExpression, the Shopify HackDays project Kevin and Nick worked on. Show Notes & Links: RegularExpression (https://github.com/kddnewton/regular_expression) Prettier Plugin for Ruby (https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby) Parsing Ruby (https://github.com/kddnewton/parsing-ruby) yjit (https://github.com/Shopify/yjit) Ruby Hacking Guide (https://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io/) Prettier Printer (https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf) Prettier Print Module in Ruby Core (https://github.com/ruby/prettyprint) An Introduction to Speculative Optimization in V8 (https://ponyfoo.com/articles/an-introduction-to-speculative-optimization-in-v8) Kevin Newton (@kddnewton) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/kddnewton?lang=en) Kevin Newton on Github (https://github.com/kddnewton) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Brittany has been talking about them for weeks and they are here: the newly minted junior developers of TextUs. Tune into to listen to Saundra Catalina, Jeff Golden and Luke Mason share why they learned to code, how they chose their programs, how they tackled finding their first role, their thoughts on mentorship and of course, any advice they have for the junior listeners out there. Show Notes & Links: Turing School (https://turing.edu/) Flatiron School (https://flatironschool.com/) Saundra on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saundra-catalina/) Jeff on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjeffgolden/) Luke on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukejmason/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Ben Sheldon is the Director of Engineering Operations at Code for America and the author of the GoodJob gem. He fields all of Brittany's questions about why GoodJob was created, how it leverages Active Job, why a dev team would select it and what the life of an open source maintainer currently looks like. Show Notes & Links: Code for America (https://www.codeforamerica.org/) bensheldon/good_job - GitHub (https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job) RailsConf 2015 Keynote (“Rails is my prepper backpack”) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVTM7mE1Cc) Stephen Baker’s “History of RSpec” (https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html) Ben's Blog (http://Island94.org) Ben Sheldon (@bensheldon) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/bensheldon?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

After participating in his study, Brittany interviewed Gui Heurich. Gui is a Brazilian anthropologist and programmer, currently researching the Ruby language and its community in an ambitious projected named Code::Anth. He lives in England, where he works as a Ruby backend developer at Farmdrop and also as an Associate Researcher at University College London. Show Notes & Links: Code::Anth (http://code-anth.xyz/) Gui Heurich (@anthrolanguage) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/anthrolanguage?lang=en) Email Gui at g.heurich@ucl.ac.uk Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Jemma is going to be joining Shopify as a member of the Core Foundations team! She and Brittany discuss the interview process from Jemma's perspective. They then talk through their favorite developer tools, what they would improve and what sponsorship means for this show and WNB.rb. Show Notes & Links: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon) Episode 365 - I Believe in the Rails Magic with Brittany & Nick (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/365) Tmux - GitHub (https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/) WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/wnb_rb?lang=en) Contact WNB.rb for Sponsoring at womennonbinary.rb@gmail.com Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Returning from Episode 343, Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc. Brittany and Brian invited Aaron back on to the show to break down equity for developers: why they should care, equity terminology and guidance for when their employer is sold and they have vested stock. Show Notes & Links: Episode 343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn (https://5by5.tv/rubyonrails/343) 83(b) Election (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/83b-election.asp) An Introduction to Incentive Stock Options (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/12/introduction-incentive-stock-options.asp) Non-Qualified Stock Option (NSO) (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nso.asp) The Importance of Diversification (https://www.investopedia.com/investing/importance-diversification/) Satisficing (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satisficing.asp) Aaron Kahn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-kahn-7104a615/) Aaron's Website (https://www.mywealthmgmt.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

The episode you wanted and deserved! Brittany teams up with her favorite Ruby podcast hosts: Chris Oliver, Jason Charnes, Andrew Mason, Chris Toomey, Steph Viccari and Jason Swett in an epic crossover to discuss the origins of their shows, experiences as hosts, why podcasting is so important in keeping the Ruby community thriving and their shows' legacies. Show Notes & Links: Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/) The Bike Shed (https://www.bikeshed.fm/) Rails with Jason (https://www.codewithjason.com/rails-with-jason-podcast/) Chris Oliver (@excid3) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/excid3) Jason Charnes (@jmcharnes) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/jmcharnes) Andrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/andrewmcodes) Chris Toomey (@christoomey) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/christoomey) Steph Viccari (@SViccari) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/SViccari) Jason Swett (@JasonSwett) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/JasonSwett) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Joël Quenneville is a consulting developer with thoughtbot. Joël wrote a recent article on the thoughtbot blog which explored how OOP, TDD, and functional programming ideas can all be used as lenses to help us gain a better understanding of our problem and potential solutions. Brittany and Joël discussed how these concepts can directly apply to implementing third party integrations. Show Notes & Links: Testing Objects with a Functional Mindset (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/functional-viewpoints-on-testing-objectoriented-code) Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/simplify-tests-by-extracting-side-effects) Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Composition (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/reusable-oo-composition) Joël on Twitter (@joelquen) (https://twitter.com/joelquen) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Nick's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Nick tells Brittany about the ambitious project he and his Hack Day team took on at Shopify. Brittany updates Nick on her trip to Denver to meet the team at TextUs and how her junior team members are doing a month in. They wrap up by reflecting on how much hiring has changed since they discussed it in depth last spring. Show Notes & Links: kddnewton/regular_expression (https://github.com/kddnewton/regular_expression) Viking Code School: Become a Web Developer (https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Jemma's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Brittany and Jemma discuss WNB.rb's upcoming Fireside Chats about Technical Speaking and how Jemma is approaching the event as a moderator. Brittany shares her experience onboarding three (!) new Junior developers at TextUs and they both discuss how the approach writing and submitting talks. Lastly, they talk about setting engineering cultures within teams. Show Notes & Links: Register for Fireside Chats about Technical Speaking (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wnbrb-fireside-chat-about-technical-speaking-tickets-155709113149) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Brittany and Brian are joined with Frank Lamantia, CTO for Bold Penguin. His background is in software engineering; he likes to call himself a recovering Java developer. He runs product management, software engineering, cloud & site-reliability engineering, information security, and internal IT. The trio discuss the recent Bold Penguin feature on the Stack Overflow Podcast and Bold Penguin's hiring practices. Show Notes & Links: Bold Penguin (https://www.boldpenguin.com/) Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers? (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/14/podcast-338-why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-ruby-developers/) Frank Lamantia | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-lamantia/) Contact Brian Mariani at Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Jared White is passionate about rolling back some of the complexity of the modern web and finding simpler paths forward using easy-to-understand tools and, of course, Ruby. He and Brittany discuss the origins and goals of Bridgetown, a Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era. Show Notes & Links: Bridgetown (https://www.bridgetownrb.com/) Bridgetown on Github (https://github.com/bridgetownrb/bridgetown) Jared White (@jaredcwhite) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite?lang=en) Jared's Personal Site (https://jaredwhite.com/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

It’s no secret that Brittany admires WNB.rb, a community and monthly Ruby meetup for women and non-binary folks. She welcomed the three organizers: Jemma Issroff, Emily Giurleo and Sylwia Vargas to discuss the origins and future initiatives of WNB.rb. Show Notes & Links: WNB.rb on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/o/wnbrb-32770260241) WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/wnb_rb?lang=en) Jemma Issroff (@JemmaIssroff) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/JemmaIssroff) Emily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/EmilyGiurleo) Sylwia Vargas (@SylwiaVargas) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/SylwiaVargas) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

It is the debut of The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Brittany and Mirror Placement have partnered on the next iteration of the podcast, with Brian Mariani joining as a regular co-host. They discuss the exciting changes coming and then dive into the current world of Ruby recruiting and hiring. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).

Marty Haught and Evan Phoenix, Directors of Ruby Central, guested on the show to explain Ruby Central's place in our community, how Railsconf 2021 came together and what we can expect from the upcoming Rubyconf 2021 as a dual virtual and in-person conference.

Links for this episode:

Ruby Central
RailsConf 2021
RubyConf 2021 | Denver & Virtual November 8-10!
Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers
Marty Haught (@mghaught) | Twitter
Mx. Evan Phoenix (@evanphx) | Twitter
RubyConf (@rubyconf) | Twitter
RailsConf (@railsconf) | Twitter
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Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Zach Stradling was the first Software Engineer on the original Trainual team. He joins Brittany to discuss how he grew an engineering team from 2 to 15 (spoiler: they are hiring!), how to define engineering culture and their use of service objects.

Links for this episode:

Trainual | All-In-One Training & Knowledge Platform
Engineering Careers @ Trainual
Donut | Slack App Directory
Zach Stradling on LinkedIn
Zach Stradling (@zachstradling) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Lea Ann Bradford is a senior software developer for Notch8, an agency that leverages the Samvera open source community. Lea Ann tells her story of learning to code after being a stay at home mom and she educates Brittany on all things Samvera.

Links for this episode:

Notch8 - Ruby on Rails Web Application Developers
Samvera - Open-source digital repository software product
Samvera Community · GitHub
samvera/hyrax: Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails Engine
WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | Twitter
Lea Ann Bradford (@LeaABradford) | Twitter
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Konnor Rogers is a software developer for Veue Inc. He is also the creator of Snowpacker, and he has a deep love for open source. He breaks down Frontend bundlers for Brittany and the up and coming vite_ruby.

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The Odin Project: Your Career in Web Development Starts Here
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Source-to-source compiler - Wikipedia
Webpacker is the new default in Rails 6 | Saeloun Blog
The Asset Pipeline — Ruby on Rails Guides
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Tay DeHerrera is a Backend Software Engineer at TextUs. Tay and Brittany discuss getting involved in other initiatives at work and the importance of supporting (and sometimes humoring) a significant other who also writes software.

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TextUs
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Amy Nadboralski (aka Powder) is a (trans) woman that enjoys programming, video games, and tinkering with electronics. She is currently working primarily with the Ruby programming language as a principal software engineer at Vibes; a mobile engagement platform that helps companies create meaningful connections with their customers.

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Helix: Native Ruby Extensions Without Fear
danielpclark/rutie: “The Tie Between Ruby and Rust.” - GitHub
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Nick Schwaderer co-hosts with Brittany this week. They discuss Nick's new job at Shopify (!), the interview process and working with the Ruby/Rails core team. They wrap with Nick's promise to discuss Stimulus but that quickly evolves to Hotwire.

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Sean Devine, CEO of XBE and former host of this show is back to discuss the success of XBE in the past year, the use of Ember at XBE and how if you're a founder that can code, you've already raised your seed round.

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Matt Swanson leads teams and builds products for customers at SEP, a software product design and development agency based in Indianapolis. He runs the blog Boring Rails. Brittany and he chat about producing Ruby content and Matt answers questions from listeners about his approach.

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Ruby Weekly
Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fast
Boring Rails | Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases
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Mark Chao, or more well known as lulalala, is a happy rubyist from Taiwan. He works at GitLab, and likes to contribute to open source projects. He likes anime and has a hobby to self publish reviews into books/ebooks using Ruby libraries, git and InDesign. He and Brittany discuss ActiveModel::Errors.

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ActiveModel::Errors - Ruby on Rails API
rails / rails Pull Request: Model error as object
lulalala / adequate_errors
Rails 6.1's ActiveModel Errors Revamp | All talk but no code
A Place Further than the Universe
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Jemma Issroff is currently writing a book about managed garbage collection, with a focus on Ruby. She is passionate about making the tech industry a more inclusive space through teaching, mentoring, and community building. An avid Ruby blogger, she also writes the “Tip of the Week” for Ruby Weekly. Jemma has worked extensively as a backend and infrastructure software developer optimizing memory usage and performance in Ruby and Rails apps.

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Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive
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A force of positivity, Jack Collier is the co-founder and CTO of Atlantis Technology. Jack has been developing software for more than 20 years, and an enthusiastic Rails developer since 2005. He's worked on more than 75 different Rails projects of all shapes and sizes.

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Atlantis Technology
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Code School: Rails for Zombies | Pluralsight
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Maciej Mensfeld is a Software Architect with experience in a wide variety of business applications built using multiple Ruby frameworks. He is particularly interested in code quality assurance and OSS supply chain security. He is an active OSS contributor and maintainer of various projects including Karafka and Diffend.

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Castle.io - Castle - Security Automation
karafka/karafka: Framework for Apache Kafka
Diffend
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How requiring a gem can mess up your already running application
Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique
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We’re continuing our Developer Life Series. Brittany tapped her good friend, Evie Zawada, to guest on the podcast to discuss sales tactics, identifying personas and how important it is to listen. She offers advice for developers who might find themselves selling a product or themselves for a job.

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Utah Newman is a self taught Front end engineer with a passion for accessibility at Brightwheel. She and Brittany discuss the origin story behind her cat, border-radius: 50%, how important help is and how to navigate ADHD as a developer.

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Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm. He is back on the podcast to discuss the current boom in hiring, remote working, rusty decision making and the drive to love whom you are working with.

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A graduate of the Turing School, JF Lalonde is a senior software engineer at TextUs. JF is passionate about writing clean, well-tested and well-documented code, mentoring others and maximizing productivity with asynchronicity.

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HTML & JavaScript for Visual Learners
Turing School
TextUs
Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way
Deep Work by Cal Newport
JF's Personal Site
JF-Lalonde (JF Lalonde) · GitHub
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Dan Moore currently leads developer advocacy at FusionAuth, a company focused on authentication and authorization for developers. A first-time author, Dan also created a blog-turned-book dubbed "Letters for a New Developer".

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FusionAuth: Authentication and Authorization built for devs
Letters to a New Developer
Letters To a New Developer: The Book
Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | Meetup
Dan Moore (@mooreds) | Twitter
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Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.

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Plataformatec
Simple Form: Forms made easy for Rails
Rails Core Team
Rails 6.1 Release Notes
Hotwire
rafaelfranca (Rafael França) · GitHub
Rafael França (@rafaelfranca) · Twitter
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Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. He guested on the show to discuss the eagerly anticipated Hanami 2.0 release, how dry-rb, rom-rb and Hanami partnered and how slices and containers work with one another.

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Hanami
hanami/hanami: The web, with simplicity. - GitHub
Hanami 2.0 - Trello
Hanami Forum
Tim's Open Source Status Updates
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Hampton Lintorn Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more. Hampton is Co-Founder and CEO of Veue, a live streaming video platform. If you love Haml, this episode is for you.

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Hampton Catlin | Wikipedia
Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
Veue Live Streaming
Haml's Main Site
haml / haml on Github
haml | A Surprise Visit
Natalie Weizenbaum | Github (@nex3)
Hampton Catlin (@HamptonMakes) | Twitter
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Nate Berkopec is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, the creator of the Rails Performance Workshop, and the maintainer of Puma. He and Brittany discuss his unique take on his workshop and his experiences maintaining Puma.

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Speedshop - the Ruby on Rails peformance company
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
The Rails Performance Workshop
5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast #260: Rails Performance with Nate Berkopec
puma/puma: A Ruby/Rack web server built for concurrency - GitHub
Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter
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Starr Horne is co-founder and one of the original developers of Honeybadger - an exception monitoring service with deep ties in the ruby community. Recently she has worked to bring a diverse array of new voices to Honeybadger's blog. She offers insightful advice on producing great content for developers.

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Honeybadger | Exception and Uptime Monitoring for Application Developers
The Honeybadger Developer Blog
Write For Us | Honeybadger Developer Blog
Opening The Ruby Concurrency Toolbox - Honeybadger.io
FounderQuest
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Honeybadger.io (@honeybadgerapp) | Twitter
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Based in Portland, Oregon, John Cech is a Senior Ruby Developer working at Planet Argon. John works on a wide-range of client projects as a Tech Lead and provides mentorship to interns and junior developers having started out there as a junior, himself.

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Planet Argon: Software Development with Ruby on Rails
Internship - Planet Argon
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Nicholas Schwaderer joined Brittany to discuss Chef's acquisition and how Brittany has been newly leading the Frontend team at TextUs. They wrap up with a recap of the Ryan Bates/Digital Ocean saga and a mystery topic.

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Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress Software
Hacker News | Ryan Bates & Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean Makes Amends | Stimulus Reflex Donation
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Colleen Schnettler is an independent Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. She just launched her first product, Simple File Upload, and was eager to answer all of Brittany's questions about it and her experience with Active Storage.

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Simple File Upload
Backblaze
RailsConf 2019 - How to migrate to Active Storage without losing your mind by Colleen Schnettler
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Jesse Herrick is a software engineer based in Columbus, Ohio at Little Lines, a RoR development company. Jesse often works in Rails for work, but his main software passion is Elixir and Phoenix. He dazzles Brittany with how great Phoenix LiveView is.

Links for this episode:

Littlelines: Ruby on Rails Development Company
Phoenix Framework
phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view - GitHub
JesseHerrick (Jesse Herrick) · GitHub
Jesse's Site
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Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.

Links for this episode:

Shopify/packwerk: Good things come in small packages - GitHub
fxn/zeitwerk: Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby - GitHub
Maple Ong - Software Developer - Shopify | LinkedIn
mpj (@OngMaple) | Twitter
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Former host of the podcast, Kyle Daigle is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at GitHub working on cross company projects to help GitHubbers and the developer community accomplish the best work of their life with GitHub. He and Brittany catchup and discuss the incredible Arctic Code Vault.

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Dependabot
Semmle - Code Analysis Platform for Securing Software
GitHub Archive Program - Arctic Code Vault
Software Heritage
Wayback Machine - Internet Archive
Github Universe 2020
Rails 6.1 RC1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements and more!
Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) · Twitter
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Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc., a fully-independent Pittsburgh-based registered investment advisor. He joined Brittany to answer burning, impactful financial questions especially for software developers.

Links for this episode:

What Is a 529 Plan? - Saving for College
Wealth Management Strategies, Inc.
Aaron Kahn - Wealth Management Strategies, Inc. - LinkedIn
Email Brittany if you want more financial content
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Brittany guested on the Maintainable Podcast. Robby and her discuss the mistakes that developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.

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Maintainable Podcast
Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails
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Jason Taylor is currently a Principal Software Engineer at TextUs. He has been a software engineer for 15 years but it is his first ever podcast appearance! He and Brittany dig into what being a principal means (key: confidence) and discuss some spooky Rails horror stories.

Links for this episode:

TextUs
Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | Meetup
Donut
JT (@thetizzo) | Twitter
Hiding Ruby 2.7 Deprecation Warnings in Rails 6 | Andrew Mason
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Ruby is more than Rails. Brittany welcomed Piotr Solnica, Senior Ruby Backend Engineer at Castle.io and creator of ROM.rb and dry-rb core team member to the show to discuss his new job, OSS contributions and why he left Rails.

Links for this episode:

Castle.io - Castle - Security Automation
solnic.codes / Blog / My time with Rails is up
Hanami | The web, with simplicity
dry-rb
ROM.rb
Hanami 2.0 - Trello
dry-rb/dry-transaction: Business transaction DSL - GitHub
Data Mapper Pattern - Wikipedia
Piotr Solnica (@_solnic_) | Twitter
solnic (Piotr Solnica) · GitHub
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Cameron Dutro believes we need Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage. That's what kuby is - an easy way to deploy your Ruby on Rails application without getting your dev-ops black belt first.

Links for this episode:

Quip @ Salesforce
fluther.com
getkuby / kuby-core: A convention over configuration approach for deploying Rails apps.
Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer
kirillian / shiplane: Convert your development docker-compose yaml files
camertron (Cameron Dutro) · GitHub
Cameron on Twitter (@camertron)
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Rachel Green is a web developer based in Houston, Texas with experience in building B2B, e-commerce, and enterprise applications. She is an admin for the Ruby on Rails Slack group and is also involved with civic engagement and advocacy efforts and is passionate about the potential for tech to do good for others.

Links for this episode:

Webmaster - Wikipedia
ChaiOne | Powering Industrial Digitialization
Ruby on Rails Link - A Slack Community
EBWiki
Rachel Green on LinkedIn
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Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and her team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. She and Brittany discuss knowing when to uncouple a service and how to identify orphan code.

Links for this episode:

Gusto
RoR 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
Chipping Away at a Monolith - Gusto Engineering
yak shaving - Urban Dictionary
unused-code / unused | A tool to identify potentially unused code.
Tori Huang – Medium
Tori Huang - Senior Software Engineer - Gusto | LinkedIn
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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It's been hinted around but Brittany has a new job! She is the new Backend Engineering Lead at TextUs. She invites Nick back to the show to pepper her with questions about switching, remote work and a new codebase. In turn, Brittany asks Nick for an update on Past Rubies.

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TextUs
Jobs at TextUs
Chef: Enabling the Coded Enterprise through Infrastructure
dry-rb
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer – The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
NoRuKo Videos
99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz
Past Rubies
Past Rubies: Language Trends on GitHub [2015]
Past Rubies: Slashdot Interview with DHH [2006]
Schwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) · Twitter
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As the leader of the AllTrails Engineering team, James Graham and his team are responsible for expanding AllTrails beyond a functional tool to a fun and personalized, trail discovery experience all supported by highly scalable web services -- including Ruby on Rails.

Links for this episode:

AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking & Camping
About RailsCasts - RailsCasts | Ryan Bates
The Bakery Model for Building Container Images
taskrabbit/makara: A Read-Write Proxy for Connections
AllTrails Careers
Ansible Tower | Ansible.com
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The announcer of the podcast, Michael Springer guested on the show. Michael is a software engineer at JazzHR and he spends his free time tinkering on hobbyist projects ranging from writing chat bots to building plastic robots.

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JazzHR
Introduction to FDM 3D printing | Hubs
Makerbot Thingiverse
estruyf / unicorn-busy-server
puppeteer / puppeteer
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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. by Jason Cohen
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Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer at Custom Ink where he focuses on growing their DevOps culture within the Ecommerce teams. With a love for the Ruby programming language and serverless, Ken continues his open source Rails career by focusing on solutions that leverage AWS Lambda with Rails using a gem called Lamby.

Links for this episode:

Ken Collins | AWS Serverless Hero
customink / lamby
Atomic Design | Brad Frost
Ken Collins (@metaskills) · Twitter
Custom Ink Technology (@CustomInkTech) | Twitter
Ken Collins on DEV.to
Ken Collins (@metaskills) · Github
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon. On his second appearance, he and Brittany review the results of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey.

Links for this episode:

2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
Maintainable Podcast
Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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Making his first appearance since 2018, Robby Russell is back on the show. Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon, a software consultancy that improves existing Ruby on Rails applications and makes them more maintainable.

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Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh
Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails
CD Baby: Digital Music Distribution - Sell & Promote Your Music
Derek Sivers
Maintainable Podcast
Maintainable Rails Email Course - Planet Argon
Legacy Code Rocks Podcast
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Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, author and the host of The Rails with Jason podcast. He and Brittany discussed bringing diversity into the podcasting space and some of his favorite tips from his blog post, "All my best programming tips".

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The Rails with Jason Podcast
All my best programming tips | Jason's Blog
Code with Jason
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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
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Natalie Kudanova is a product marketing manager for JetBrains RubyMine, an IDE for Ruby and Rails developers. She helps the RubyMine team understand the needs of their users. In this short episode, she and Brittany discuss the best way to reach Ruby developers and IDE innovations.

Links for this episode:

JetBrains
RubyMine: The Ruby on Rails IDE by JetBrains
JetBrains RubyMine (@rubymine) | Twitter
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A timely episode for the employers hiring and the Ruby developers looking for work during the pandemic. After a heartfelt story, Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, revealed hiring patterns and honest advice for these unprecedented times.

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Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)
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Brittany guested on the Ruby Blend! The hosts counsel her on opensourcing her googlepay gem. They then dive into how important README's are, useful tools for documentation, a project from Evil Martians, a gem called Combustion, and RSpec API documentation.

Links for this episode:

Google Pay for Passes Gem
Google Pay for Passes Demo Site
The Ruby Blend Podcast
Panelist | Andrew Mason
Panelist | Nate Hopkins
Panelist | Ron Cooke
Writing a Ruby Gem Specification | Piotr Murach
Evil Martians | Keeping OSS documentation in check with docsify, Lefthook, and friends
Combustion | Rails Engine Testing Helper
dkubb / yardstick
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Vladimir Dementyev is a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang, contributing to open source and being an Evil Martian. He is the author of AnyCable, TestProf and an advocate for building monoliths with Rails Engines.

Links for this episode:

Evil Martians | Distributed Product Development Consultancy
Erlang Programming Language
anycable / anycable
palkan / test-prof
Railsconf: Between monoliths and microservices
Getting Started with Engines — Ruby on Rails Guides
Vladimir Dementyev (@palkan) on Github
Vladimir Dementyev (@palkan_tula) · Twitter
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The cat is out of the bag! Nick Schwaderer is back to answer all of Brittany's questions about his new role at Chef. They also dive into graphic design/typography, Ruby's popularity and the new minimal Rails app skeleton generator.

Links for this episode:

Embrace digital transformation with DevOps and Chef
Chef InSpec
Zeitwerk: A new code loader for Ruby
Stack Overflow's 2020 Developer Survey
rails new --minimal: A Minimal Rails App Skeleton Generator
Be a Guest on the 5 by 5 Ruby on Rails Podcast
Schwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at Gusto on their application infrastructure team. He and Brittany discuss his project, TestDesiderata, and his latest blog post, "From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline".

Links for this episode:

Gusto
Kent Beck
Test Desiderata
From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline
Buildkite
Kelly Sutton (@KellySutton) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Colby Swandale is a Ruby Engineer at Envato in Melbourne. He is also a core contributor to the Bundler, RubyGems & RubyGems.org projects. Colby recently started a new project called Ruby API to help improve finding and reading Ruby documentation on the web!

Links for this episode:

Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Working Towards Bundler 3 | RubyKaigi 2019
Ruby API
Ruby Together
Colby Swandale (@oceanicpanda) | Twitter
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Andrew Mason is the lead developer for CodeFund, an ethical advertising platform. When he is not working on CodeFund, he is podcasting on The Ruby Blend or Remote Ruby, writing blog posts, or working on open source projects. He and Brittany discuss his implementation of ViewComponent at CodeFund.

Links for this episode:

CodeFund | Ethical Advertising Platform
Remote Ruby Podcast
The Ruby Blend Podcast
Ruby Meetup: Online
github / view_component
Andrew's Personal Site
Andrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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Sean Devine, CEO of XBE, is welcomed back to the show to discuss hiring Rails developers in this climate, introduce XBE's innovative new program for graduating high school seniors ("Gap Here") and reveal the value of a 10x customer. Join Brittany in cheering Sean on to write a book!

Links for this episode:

Hiring - XBE
XBE Announces "Gap Here" Program For Graduating High School Seniors
Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)
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Gina Verrastro is a Rubyist, writer, and proud graduate of LEARN Academy. She is a Tech Support Engineer at SOCi who specializes in taking the most optimistic view of every bug-hunting situation.

Links for this episode:

SOCi
How to Read and Resolve Common Error Codes in Ruby by Gabbie Piraino
BetterErrors/better_errors: Better error page for Rack | GitHub
banister/binding_of_caller: Retrieve the binding of a method's caller in MRI 1.9.2+ | GitHub
Code Copy Coffee | Gina's Personal Site
Gina Verrastro (@codecopycoffee) | Twitter
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Vince Eberle is a Full Stack Developer at 412 Food Rescue. Over the last decade, he has worked on app development on-and-off using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS. He and Brittany discuss coming back to Rails and how powerful Rails can make a developer in a non-profit.

Links for this episode:

412 Food Rescue
Spiceworks: Software, Forums & Tools for IT Pros
412 Food Rescue (@412FoodRescue) · Twitter
Ruby on Rails Link - A Slack Community
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Emily Giurleo works as a Software Engineer at MongoDB, where she helps maintain the MongoDB Ruby Driver and Mongoid Object-Document Mapper for Ruby on Rails. She brought advice on how to successfully onboard a junior engineer in three steps, with the goals of building their trust, instilling confidence in their technical abilities, and enabling them to be an autonomous contributor to your team.

Links for this episode:

Codecademy: Learn to Code
MongoDB
RailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition
FreeFrom
Ragtag
Emily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) · Twitter
Emily Giurleo's Personal Site
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Hilary Stohs-Krause is a co-owner and full-stack software developer at Ten Forward Consulting. She joined Brittany to discuss her upcoming RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition session. Together, they explored the root causes of fear and anxiety and how we can start to deliberately rewrite our instincts.

Links for this episode:

Ten Forward Consulting: Custom Software Development
Madison Women in Tech
RailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition
Hilary's Personal Site
Hilary Stohs-Krause (@hilarysk) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Mark is a lead engineer at Landing, a new platform for providing flexible living solutions for today’s renters. He is also the co-organizer of the Birmingham on Rails conference. He guested on the podcast to propose the simple question: can ActiveStorage be used for image serving in your modern web apps?

Links for this episode:

Page Speed Insights | Google
Lighthouse | Google
Moving towards a faster web | Google
See How Images Affect Your Page Speed | imgix
Test a website's performance | Web Page Test
GoogleChrome / lighthouse | Read the Docs!
Birmingham on Rails 2020 - Validating and Processing the Content of a File with Active Storage by Claudio B.
ActiveStorage Feature Request - Support for CDN (Cloudfront) #35926
Mark's Personal Site
Mark Hutter (@mrkhutter) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Adrianna Chang is a developer intern at Shopify and a member of the inaugural cohort for Shopify’s Dev Degree program, a 4-year work-integrated learning program. She joined Brittany to discuss her latest blog post, "Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern”.

Links for this episode:

Dev Degree
Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern
Polly want a message | Sandi Metz
seattlerb/flog | GitHub
StranglerFigApplication - Martin Fowler
Shopify Engineering (@ShopifyEng) · Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Nick Schwaderer popped on to the show to talk about his recent job search (Ruby & Rails are thriving!) and his recent commit to Rails core. Brittany discussed how she is taking the opportunity to work on her Googlepay gem and the recent conference cancellations.

Links for this episode:

Railsconf Cancellation
Nick's PR into Rails: WIP: Ensure rails new . --master builds a complete bleeding edge application (not just core gems)
Google Pay API | Google Developers
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Philip Poots is the VP of Engineering at ClubCollect, a FinTech startup in Amsterdam. He is a Pareto product programmer, remote advocate and a self proclaimed dilettante. His recent talk, "Rediscovering Ruby" was a big point of discusssion between Brittany and him.

Links for this episode:

ClubCollect - have a financially healthy organisation
Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
Deep Work - Cal Newport
pootsbook (Philip Poots) · GitHub
Phil's Blog | Crossing the Rubicon
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Andy Croll is CTO at CoverageBook & AnswerThePublic, Rubyist, conference organizer of Brighton Ruby, author, speaker, bootstrapper & twin dad. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Andy had to pivot this year's conference into a new experience. He and Brittany discuss the details and the potentially lasting effects on the community.

Links for this episode:

Brighton Ruby Conference 2020
Andy Croll's Personal Site
One Ruby Thing
Andy Croll (@andycroll) | Twitter
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company dedicated to building lean code and reducing tech debt. He and Brittany enthusiastically discuss blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto's future plans for his code scoring library, Skunk.

Links for this episode:

Ombu Labs - The Lean Software Boutique
Fast Ruby - Ruby on Rails Upgrades by Ombu Labs
fastruby / skunk | A StinkScore Calculator for Ruby Code
Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker) | Twitter
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. Brittany and he discuss the concept of important opinions and the steps he took to take over maintainership of the VCR gem.

Links for this episode:

vcr/vcr: Record your test suite's HTTP interactions | GitHub
The Hippocratic License 2.0: An Ethical License for Open Source Projects
Open Collective - Make your community sustainable
Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene's Web Log
k. rainbolt-greene (@krainboltgreene) | Twitter
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Dave Paola was cofounder and CTO at Bloc. He is now the cofounder of Jellyswitch, unleashing the power of the distributed workforce. Dave and Brittany converse about choosing frameworks, bootcamps and frontend frameworks.

Links for this episode:

Bloc | Online Programs in Web Development
github / actionview-component
Sam Stephenson (@sstephenson) | Twitter
Jellyswitch - Coworking Space Management App
Dave Paola (@dpaola2) | Twitter
jellyswitch (@jellyswitchapp) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Back by popular demand, Brian is back! Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm, came back to share his wisdom on financial negotiations, what it is like to recruit from both the client and developer side and that one overlooked tip to get the job.

Links for this episode:

Mirror Placement
5by5 RoR 287: Recruitment on Rails with Brian Mariani
Email Brian Mariani (brian@mirrorplacement.com)
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Bobbilee Hartman is a Developer Advocate at Square. She is more widely known as the founder of Rails Camp West, the long-standing unplugged retreat for web developers in the United States. She pitches Brittany on attending this year and answers all of her questions about the getaway.

Links for this episode:

Learn HTML & CSS - a book that teaches you in a nicer way
Railsbridge
Square: Solutions & Tools to Grow Your Business
Square Tutorials | Youtube
Rails Camp West
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Bobbilee Hartman (@bobbilee19) | Twitter
Rails Camp USA (@railscampusa) | Twitter
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Alexey Chernov is a Ruby on Rails consultant at JetThoughts. Over the years, he has built MVPs and consulted to improve legacy code, scale up the remote team and achieve an effective development process. He and Brittany dive deep into approaching legacy RoR projects.

Links for this episode:

JetThoughts
JetThoughts · GitHub
JTWay by JetThoughts
JetThoughts (@JetThoughts) | Twitter
Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at DEV, the company that runs the blogging website dev.to. She and Brittany unpack what site reliability means, Molly's fondness of Elasticsearch and how Molly creates all of her witty and educational content.

Links for this episode:

DEV
Elasticsearch
Redis
Molly Struve (@mollystruve) | Twitter
Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Penelope Phippen makes Rubyfmt, and was previously a lead maintainer of the RSpec testing framework. She’s been writing Ruby for just about a decade, and still remembers 1.8.6. She and Brittany discuss Rspec, Ruby Central and her thoughts on the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

RSpec: Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby
Ruby Central
What is Processor? Conference Talk
penelopezone/rubyfmt: Ruby Autoformatter! - GitHub
Upcoming NYCrb Meetup with Penelope
Penelope's Personal Site
Penelope Phippen (@penelopezone) on Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

Brittany and Nick continue to celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 2 of the episode, they discuss Brittany's topic for ParisRB, setting up and contributing to dev.to and imposter syndrome training with chess and BodyPUMP. Happy New Year!

Links for this episode:

ParisRB Conf 2020
DEV Community · GitHub
How to Play Chess | Rules + 7 Steps to Begin - Chess.com
BODYPUMP – Group Barbell Workouts – Les Mills US
Nick Schwaderer (@Schwad4HD14) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Brittany and Nick celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 1 of the episode, they discuss New Years resolutions, switching back from Windows to MacOS and using Rubyfmt with Atom. A special thanks to you, the listeners, for helping make 300 episodes happen.

Links for this episode:

Using Rubyfmt with Atom | Schwad
ParisRB Conf 2020
The world's best way to learn French - Duolingo
Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | Twitter
Nick Schwaderer (@Schwad4HD14) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Thinking about a new Ruby job in 2020? Mirror Placement (specifically Brian) is always here to listen, learn, connect and advise Ruby on Rails engineers on their careers. Please drop him a line at brian@mirrorplacement.com if you'd like to chat about your current Rails gig...or a future one!

It's three's company! CoverMyMeds' engineers, Anne Richardson and Alex Miller, guested on the podcast to discuss CMM's remote developer culture, approach to microservices and commitment to the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

CoverMyMeds, The Leader In Electronic Prior Authorization
BlueJeans: Video Conferencing, Screen Sharing, Video Calls
Open Positions | Careers | CoverMyMeds
Alex Miller (@apmiller108) | Twitter
Anne Richardson (@lortz) | Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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Thinking about a new Ruby job in 2020? Mirror Placement (specifically Brian) is always here to listen, learn, connect and advise Ruby on Rails engineers on their careers. Please drop him a line at brian@mirrorplacement.com if you'd like to chat about your current Rails gig...or a future one! Happy Holidays!

DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus.

Links for this episode:

RubyConf 2019 - How to Become an Encoding Champion by Deedee Lavinder
ASCII | Wikipedia
Endianness | Wikipedia
DeeDee Lavinder (@ddlavinder) | Twitter
Raleigh/Durham | Women Who Code
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Joe Leo is the CEO of Def Method, an agile Ruby software consultancy, and the co-author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition. He and Brittany discussed functional programming in Ruby and their thoughts on the Ruby community after Rubyconf 2019.

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Def Method
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition
The Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 Slides
Partial Function Application | Joe Leo on Ruby Tapas
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If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

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Brittany is live from Rubyconf 2019! Noah Gibbs is a Ruby Fellow for AppFolio, working on the core Ruby language and related tooling. After over 30 years of communicating with computers, Noah now believes that communicating with humans may not be a passing fad, and he's trying it out.

Links for this episode:

Noah Gibb's Blog
Ruby Weekly
Ruby 3x3
Ivy Coding Study
Conscious Coding Practice: The Three Concrete Steps Slides
Noah's Book: Mastering Software Technique: Conscious Practice for Writing Software
Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds
An explanation of fibers and autofibers from Samuel Williams
Noah Gibbs (@codefolio) · Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod

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If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at brian@mirrorplacement.com. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Bindiya Mansharamani, Director of Engineering, & Andrew Derenge, Principal Engineer at RigUp joined Brittany to discuss RigUp's GraphQL design choices, engineering culture and the career path to achieve senior and director level.

Links for this episode:

RigUp
Careers @ RigUp
Bindiya on LinkedIn
Andrew on LinkedIn
Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Brought to you by: Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at brian@mirrorplacement.com. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Ali Spittel loves teaching people to code. She blogs a lot about code and her life as a developer. Brittany and Ali discuss the lessons behind Ali's blog post, "The Career Advice I Wish I Had".

Links for this episode:

General Assembly
Ladybug Podcast
Ladybug Podcast | All About Technical Portfolios
The Career Advice I Wish I Had · We Learn Code
Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers - Thoughtbot
Ali's Blog
Ali's Newsletter
Ali Spittel on Twitter(@ASpittel)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Gannon McGibbon is a Software Developer at Shopify. He primarily works on improving codebase health of Shopify's monolithic Rails app. Gannon regularly contributes to open source with commits on Rails, Ruby, and Rubocop. He joined Brittany to discuss his latest blog post, "How to Write Fast Ruby on Rails code".

Links for this episode:

Rails Contributors | #59 Gannon McGibbon - All time
How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails by Gannon McGibbon
Gannon on Github (@gmcgibbon)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

[Repost from the Bikeshed] On this week's episode, Steph Viccari is joined by Brittany. They discuss Brittany's passion for roller derby and her upcoming Ruby conference talk: "Hire Me, I'm Excellent at Quitting." They also discuss using AWS Serverless, troubleshooting Postgress connection errors and working with Google Pay and Apple Wallet to introduce digital tickets.

Links for this episode:

The Bikeshed Podcast
RubyConf 2019 - Hire Me: I'm Excellent at Quitting
Bikeshedding with Steph Viccari
TN Inspire! "Ramping Up With Roller Derby"
Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
RubyConf MY - Rails Against the Machine
Amazon Aurora Serverless
Nate Berkopec - Speed Shop
@SViccari - Steph on Twitter
@BrittJMartin - Brittany on Twitter
Edited by Thom Obarski (thoughtbot)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Brittany and Nick catch up on happenings in their worlds. Nick started a new gig and Brittany was accepted into Rubyconf as a speaker. Predictably, after discussing upgrading to Rails 6 and releasing new gems, the conversation focused on keyboards.

Links for this episode:

Hero Health
Rubyconf 2019
Introducing my Schwad Performance Logger gem
Schwad/schwad_performance_logger
DROP DSA ASTROLOKEYS KEYCAPS BY SAILORHG & CASSIDOO
Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
Brittany Martin on Twitter (@brittjmartin)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Polly Schandorf is a Ruby community advocate, a newly minted extreme programmer and an organizer for Ruby for Good. She is also one of the organizers of WeCamp - a code retreat and unconference in the woods in the suburbs of DC. Help Ruby for Good do the good they are trying to do!

Links for this episode:

Ruby for Good - Making the world gooder
WeCamp 2019
Extreme Programming
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Ruby for Good on Github
DiaperBase
Polly Schandorf on Twitter (@n3rdyteacher)
Ruby for Good on Twitter (@rubyforgood)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

John Nunemaker, creator and maintainer of HTTParty and Flipper, regaled Brittany with tales of why he loves Ruby & Rails, his change of mindset on being an open source maintainer and how a post-install hook can inspire even the most grumpy of developers.

Links for this episode:

Box Out Sports - The Best Sports Graphics Solution
Fewer and Faster - Measure, Improve and Repeat
Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
jnunemaker/httparty: Makes http fun again!
jnunemaker/flipper: feature flipping for ruby
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Brittany is delighted to have Dan Benjamin, podcaster, writer, software developer, and old school Rails aficionado on the show. He is the founder of the 5by5 Podcast Network and Fireside, a podcast hosting and analytics platform.

Links for this episode:

A List Apart – For people who make websites
5by5 - Broadcasts for Geeks, Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs.
Fireside - podcast hosting and analytics by podcasters, for podcasters
Dan Benjamin on Twitter (@danbenjamin)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm based in Boston. He joined Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn, key interview tips and if the fabled fullstack developer is still relevant.

Links for this episode:

Ruby on Rails and Mobile Recruiters at Mirror
History of Dev Bootcamp
Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)
Brian Mariani on LinkedIn
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.

Links for this episode:

SQL Server Row Level Security
SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway
SQL PASS local and virtual groups
Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition
SQL Saturdays
Brent Ozar's Site
Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration
Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan
RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’
Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Steph Viccari, co-host of the Bikeshed and developer at thoughtbot, shared her insights on developer bootcamps, starting out as a developer, the state of Rails, podcasting and her first experience as a consultant.

Links for this episode:

thoughtbot
Bloc
Launch Academy
Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes — Ruby on Rails Guides
The Bike Shed Podcast
Society of Grownups | Financial Wellness Courses & Tools
Steph Viccari on Twitter (@sviccari)
The Bike Shed on Twitter (@bikeshed)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Over two years and 978 commits, Christine Zagrobelny recounts the evolution of an open source RoR project built with and for New Sanctuary Coalition, an NYC immigrant rights organization, to help them meet exponentially growing demand for their services following the 2016 U.S. election. This podcast was recorded live with Brittany at Abstractions II.

Links for this episode:

New Sanctuary Coalition - NYC
devise on Github
filterrific on Github
simplecalendar on Github
newsanctuaryasylum on Github
New Sanctuary Coalition (@NewSanctuaryNYC) · Twitter
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.

Links for this episode:

Kill All Mutants Abstractions Slides
Mutation Testing
Codosaurus, LLC
Mutant Gem on Github
Mutest on Github
Heckle on Github
Dave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2.

Links for this episode:

Scott Hanselman Coder, Blogger, Teacher, Speaker, Author
Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
Install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
First Timers Only
Scott on Twitter (@shanselman)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.

Links for this episode:

Episode 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine
Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Indeed Prime

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Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and why Turbolinks can be awesome!

Links for this episode:

Past Rubies
About Google Pay API for Passes
How We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking Javascript
Remote Ruby Podcast
Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)
Brittany Martin's Site
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.

Links for this episode:

Event-driven architecture
Confreaks TV | Events
Cover's Blog
Cover on Twitter (@cover)
Cover on Facebook
Careers @ Cover
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Indeed Prime

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Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby.

Links for this episode:

Why did Stripe choose to use Ruby for its backend language?
Sorbet
Sorbet Playground
RDL (research project for ruby typing)
Hack (typechecker for PHP)
MyPy (typechecker for Python)
TypeScript (typechecker for JavaScript)
Paul's Favorite Juggling Library
Video of Paul Juggling
Paul Tarjan on Twitter (@paultarjan)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Joining Brittany this week is Michael Kelly, a Senior Engineer with Stackshare and a passionate contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is the author of the graphql-cache gem, a caching plugin for graphql-ruby.

Links for this episode:

StackShare
graphql-ruby on Github
graphql-cache on Github
Michael Kelly on Github (@thebadmonkeydev)
StackShare on Github (@stackshareio)
StackShare on Twitter (@stackshareio)
StackShare Newsletter
StackShare Careers
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core.

Links for this episode:

Galvanize
MojoTech
PR to Introduce Support for ActionView::Component
Natasha Umer on Github (@natashau)
joelhawksley/actionview-component-demo
Trailblazer Gem
dry-view Gem
komponent Gem
Introducing Project Paper Cuts
Joel Hawksley's Blog
Joel Hawksley on Github (@joelhawksley)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Flatiron School

Whether you want to learn in-person or online, Flatiron School helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back. Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at www.flatironschool.com/Ruby.

Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards.

Links for this episode:

Nick Schwaderer - OceansHQ - Future Sync 2019
ITP 2.1 And Web Analytics
Past Rubies #1: Ruby Celebrity Free-For-All
Pull Panda is joining GitHub!
Jumping to the definition of a function or method on Github
ErgoDox EZ Keyboard
Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)
Brittany Martin's Site
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at www.flatironschool.com/Ruby.

Roller Derby Nation is a growing network, dedicated to serving roller derby fans and their skaters. Brittany (Norma Skates) invited its founder, Scott Pio (Veggie Delight), on to the show to discuss dedication to your side hustle and how multi-tenancy can extend your application's reach.

Links for this episode:

Roller Derby Nation
Definition of Multitenancy
Spoiled Techie | Scott's Blog
Makerlog
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Brought to you by: Whether you want to learn in-person or online, Flatiron School helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back.

Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at www.flatironschool.com/Ruby.

Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. As a maintainer of a platform codebase, her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs and abstracting away lower level framework code. Which is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL!

Links for this episode:

GraphQL Migration: A Proper Use Case for Metaprogramming?
Protobuffers
GraphqlRuby Gem
Graphoid Gem
Shawnee Gao on Twitter (@gaoshawnee)
Shawnee Gao on Github (@shawneegao)
Square Developer on Twitter (@squaredev)
Square Developers Landing Site
Square Developers Slack Channe
Square Developers Blog
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Brought to you by: * OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Brittany welcomed back Sean Devine, former host of the Ruby on Rails podcast , and now CEO of XBE. Along with catching up, Sean and Brittany discussed betting on solid technologies and his advice for technical CEOs.

Links for this episode:

XBE
JSON:API — A specification for building APIs in JSON
tailwindcss | A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs
corber | CLI for building hybrid apps with Ember/Vue/Glimmer/Cordova
Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Brought to you by: * OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Chris Oliver, creator of GoRails and co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, joined Nick Schwaderer to discuss his experience at Railsconf 2019. They also dive into form builder changes, documentation and ponder when Rails 6 will be released.

Links for this episode:

GoRails
Hatchbox
Railsconf 2019
Remote Ruby Podcast
Schedule from Railsconf 2006
(Unofficial) DHH Keynote @ RailsConf 2019
Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes
Chris Oliver on Twitter (@excid3)
Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Brought to you by: * OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce in Rails. The minitest advocate recounted the origins of Lamby, a simple Rails & AWS Lambda integration using Rack with Brittany.

Links for this episode:

Custom Ink
customink/lamby
Ruby on Jets | The Ruby Serverless Framework
AWS Cloudformation
Ken Collins on Twitter (@metaskills)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Brought to you by: * OSCON is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.

Sonja Peterson is a senior software engineer at Devoted Health, working in Go and Typescript. Sonja guested on the show to speak with Brittany about her upcoming RailsConf talk, transitioning to Go and to spill on her favorite crime novels.

Links for this episode:

DevotedHealth
BookBub
The Go Programming Language
Fixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective @ RailsConf 2019
The Practical Test Pyramid
Tana French's Books
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Robert Galbraith's Books
Sonja Peterson on Twitter (@sonjabpeterson)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".

Links for this episode:

Sam's Blog
Discourse
miniracer | Minimal embedded v8
Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse
Sam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)
Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript.

Links for this episode:

RubyMotion: Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby
Mountaineers on Slack
6 Pack Apps
RubyMotion Jumpstart
Ruby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson
RedPotion
The Sleeping Dragon Has Awoken, And Is Filled With A Terrible Resolve
Amir Rajan on Twitter (@amirrajan)
Lori M Olson on Twitter (@wndxlori)
WNDX School

Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications.

Links for this episode:

A Cloud Guru
Linux Academy
AWS Certification
Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of Life
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
AWS Auto Scaling
Justin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)
Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox Cloud
Postfix - Ubuntu Documentation
Windows RADIUS server
AWS CodeDeploy
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera
Justin Snair on Linked In
Justin Snair on Upwork
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.

Links for this episode:

Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
Edouard Chin on Github
Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations
Shopify's Deprecation Toolkit
Shopify's Bootboot
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small.

Links for this episode:

Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Higher Pixels
Buzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout)
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

Links for this episode:

Abstractions CFP
How to come up with conference proposal ideas
Sarah's Site
global diversity CFP day
Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)
Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers.

Links for this episode:

Depfu with 5 by 5 Promotion
Jan on Mastodon
Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place.

Links for this episode:

Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
Stealth
Lita: ChatOps
TelegramBot
José Albornoz on Twitter (eljojo)
Episode Music: "Inspire" by BenSounds

Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

Speedshop - Ruby on Rails performance consulting
Speedshop Blog
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
Tune
Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf (Minneapolis)
Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter
Nate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)

Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI.

Links for this episode:

Charles Nutter on Github
Tom Enebo on Github
dpl
Konstantin Haase on Github
Deployment on TravisCI
Martin Fowler's Thoughts on Continuous Integration
Hiro Asari on Twitter (@hiroasari)
Hiro Asari on Github (@BanzaiMan)
Episode Music: "Straight" by BenSound

Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. After discussing their mutual love of Ruby, Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community.

Links for this episode:

run.rb
Southeast Ruby
Remote Ruby
Remote Ruby with Brittany as Guest
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Jason Charnes on Twitter (@jmcharnes)
Podia
Episode Music: "Downtown" by BenSound

Brittany is on the road in NYC! Her company is a new client with thoughtbot, a creative studio that helps clients build applications. Brittany took a coffee break to chat with Sarah Dawson, their newest apprentice about thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, the thin line between junior developer and established developer and her initial reaction to Rails.

Links for this episode:

thoughtbot
thoughtbot's Opensource Libraries
thoughtbot on Twitter
Storyboarding at thoughtbot
Episode Music: "Happy Rock" by bensound

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Emily is the CEO of Shine Registry, a startup built on Rails that’s working on reshaping tradition to increase gender equity in entrepreneurship. Brittany has been consulting on the project so she invited Emily on to discuss prototyping an application quickly in RoR, being a non-technical founder and how our listeners can get involved with Shine Registry.

Links for this episode:

Shine Registry
Project Olympus
Shine Registry on Instagram
info@shineregistry.com for interest in joining Shine Registry
Emily Wazlak on Twitter
Episode Music: "Keep Dancing" by Podington Bear

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On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions.

Links for this episode:

Railsconf 2019 CFP
Ruby Central
Boulder Ruby Group
Railsconf Website
Confreaks TV | RailsConf
Marty Haught on Twitter
Railsconf on Twitter
Episode Music: "Positive and Fun" by Scott Holmes

Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime.

Links for this episode:

AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda
AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby build support for AWS SAM CLI
The official AWS SDK for Ruby
Official repository for the aws-record gem, an abstraction for Amazon DynamoDB.
AWS Record Generator Rails
Alex Wood on Twitter
Jingyi Chen on Twitter
Introduction by Michael Springer
Episode Music: "Carefree Melody" by Twin Musicom

Bandwidth sponsored by: * CacheFly

Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

Jets Ruby Serverless Framework
BoltOps
BoltOps Nuts and Bolts Blog
AWS Lambda
Serverless Framework
Zappa
Chalice
Apex
Tung's LinkedIn
Tung's Twitter
Tung's YouTube Channel
Support Jets
Episode Music: Jetstar Rollercoaster by Roger Plexico

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Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint.

Links for this episode:

RSpec
Minitest
Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
Jason Swett's Blog
RubyConf India
The Ruby Testing Podcast | Brittany Guests
Episode Music: "Cinematic" by Purple Planet Music

Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee where she has been working on transitioning honestbee's monolith to smaller services. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application.

Links for this episode:

honestbee
honestbee's GraphQL App
Slide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with Rails
GraphQL Batch by Shopify
Ankita on Twitter (@gazubi)
Episode Music: "Please Wake Up" by Meydan

William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices.

Links for this episode:

Finagle
How Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair
Linkerd
Linkerd on Github
Linkerd on Twitter (@linkerd)
Buoyant
Brittany on Twitter (@brittjmartin)
William on Twitter (@wm)
Episode Music: "Robot Cowboy" by Scanglobe

On August 15th, GitHub celebrated a major milestone: their main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! Upgrading Rails on an application as large and as trafficked as GitHub is no small task. Eileen M. Uchitelle, better known as @eileencodes, came on to the show to discuss the upgrade and supporting multiple databases in Rails 6.

Links for this episode:

Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
Multi-Database Support in Rails 6
@eileencodes on Twitter
Eileen's Blog
Ruby on Ice
Episode Music: "Creative Minds" by BENSOUND

Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly.

Links for this episode:

Ruby Weekly
Cooperpress
Ruby Inside
Beginning Ruby
Peter Cooper on Twitter
Julia Evan's Blog
Episode Music: Karaoke Mouse - "Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side's Alternate Take)"

Action Text is a new framework coming to Rails 6 to make it easier to create, edit, and display rich text content within an app. Brittany invited Javan Makhmali, programmer at Basecamp, on to the show to get the scoop.

Links for this episode:

Action Text on Github
Trix on Github
Trix Homepage
Javan on Twitter (@javan)
Javan on Github
Episode Music: "Oxalis Triangularis" by Known Ocean

Brittany put her tickets aside to invite her web team at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Patrick FitzGerald (Director of eCommerce) and Danielle Greaves (Frontend Developer) on to the show. They discuss their origin stories, their team dynamics and their favorite aspects of Rails.

Links for this episode:

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Web Team
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Site
Queue-it
Sidekiq
Johnny: World's Cutest Puggle
Danielle Greaves on Twitter
Episode Music: Comfort Fit - "Sorry"

Brittany's official debut as the host of the podcast! Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core.

Links for this episode:

Nick Schwaderer's Blog
The Yak Shave Podcast
Nick's Rails Contribution
Code Triage
Art of Product Podcast
Episode Music: "Bust This Bust That" by Professor Kliq
Admin

Kyle talks with Robby and Corinne from Planet Argon about what they learned with this year's Rails Community Survey.

Now that Rails 5.2 is production ready, Britt gives Kyle a tour of Rails 5.2 and all it's coolest, newest, hippest, frameworkiest new features.

This week the talented Brit talked to Christoph Olszowka about Ruby Toolbox, SimpleCov, and what's up with Ruby these days. What's in your toolbox?

Logan McDonald joins Britt to discuss upgrading Kickstarter's main applications to Rails 5. They discuss the steps they took and lessons learned from the upgrade. If you're still riding Rails 4, this episode is definitely for you.

Coming back from hiatus, let's catch-up with Rails 5.1 & 5.2, the best parts of Rails in 2017, and the newest Javascript framework release of Stimulus.

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This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part two of a two part episode.

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This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part one of a two part episode.

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Brian wants to hear about webhooks so this is The Webhooks Episode. Learn about the tips and tricks for building a webhooks service, where you may run into trouble, and how to be a good consumer.

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This week, Britt takes Kyle's spot and interviews Ben Orenstein about what he's been up to lately. Knight takes @r00k. Checkmate.

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If you're remote, you know that time zones can be rough. This week, Kyle speaks to Joel about his recent remote experiences, how to unwind when you're remote, and the best way to eat a bunch of junk fair food.

Brian joins Kyle again this week to talk CSS, pre-compilers, and the greatest in front-end design. We talk Boostrap, SCSS, asset pipeline, and how far we've come on the front-end in the last few years.

Britt is back this week with Kyle to give an update on her conference talk experience. We talk using ActionCable in the wild, Encrypted Secrets, and how to get Alexa to whisper to you.

This week, Kyle chats with Wynn Netherland from Librato about his REST API history, what building APIs with Rails and Ruby is like these days, and what he thinks about GraphQL in its quest to be the new Platform.

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This week Kyle is joined again by Britt who is giving a few talks coming up. Kyle and Britt talk about preparation styles, tips for giving talks, and how to not become a viral video. Also, Britt discusses how having more real-time information in her Rails app would be useful and the pros and cons of a few options.

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Kyle is joined by Brian who has made a cross country move back to the mid-west. Brian talks about a new project that he's looking to undertake and how to get started solving it with Rails. Finally, we check back in on programming fonts.

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Kyle is joined by Joel to get an update on Shubox, its redesign, and what it's like to be Product Hunted. They discuss some reports of Rails' death and what it means for developers. Spoiler alert: the reports are greatly exaggerated.

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After a bit of a haitus, Kyle is back and introducing you to the newest co-host, Britt Martin! Learn about her background and the group affinity for Hamilton.

The Ruby on Rails Podcast returns weekly starting August 1st!

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With Patriot's Day arriving soon to take over Boston, Kyle invites Joel back to talk about what he's been up to, GraphQL finally hitting the big time, and what it's like to be in Boston on Marathon Monday.

On this episode, Brian joins again to talk about the consequences of poor design when it comes to air travel. We talk about dog-fooding, flying away, and how Delta could best spend their money. It's all technology related, I promise.

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This week Joel returns to join Kyle with talk of RailsConf 2017, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and what it's like to be a lower-case Rubyist.

This week I invite Brian Nelson, a friend who is a designer and developer, to talk about what it's like to use Rails as a designer, how he handle developers doing design, and talk about a few new fonts and editor tools.

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We're back! This week I introduce Joel Oliveira, one of my new recurring co-hosts. We learn a little about Joel, how we met, his side project Shubox, what it's really like using Rails 5, and a bit about ORMs.

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This week I chat with Mike Perham who is the creator, owner, and operator of Sidekiq. We talk about running a successful open source project, how to make some money and keep your sanity, and a little bit about the future with Crystal. Also, have you heard about Pokemon Go?

We'll catch up on GraphQL Summit and talk about being a solo co-host.

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In this episode, Kyle is joined by Mike McQuaid, a maintainer on Homebrew, to talk about open source, how Homebrew works, and the hardest part of running a huge package manager for Macs. Let's give this new format a try!

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After many wonderful episodes, we're wishing Sean a fine farewell as he takes his leave from the podcast. We'll also catch up on what Sean's up to and how Kyle's release of the GitHub GraphQL API at Universe went.

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The boys are back in town! Coming off an early summer hiatus, Sean and Kyle catch up, chat about Rails 5, Kyle gives an update on his project, and we all recall the sound of Sean and Kyle's voices.

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Following up on Episode #214, Sean talks about his decision to follow no advice and go his own way by extracting a service from one of his projects. Hubris? Let's find out together.

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Recorded in the morning, with spunk.

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Fewer frogs, more programming, and an interview with Jay McGavren, author of "Head First Ruby". The waiting is the hardest part.

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Sean and Kyle cover all the topics. GraphQL, missing EmberConf, rupbyonrails.org demo app doubts, Echo v Siri, Moscow Mules, Tiki cups, when to ship, and so-much-more. Hold your piece!

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Sean, Kyle, and a chorus of small frogs discuss the Game Developers Conference, eating alone, atrophic organs, Slack vs Basecamp, the cost of abstractions, and tips for adding new team members.

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In this week's episode, Sean and Kyle discuss a teamwork seminar that Kyle recently attended, how to be a good coach, Fireball whiskey, and lumberjack style.

There's also a new segment of Shipped It!, our ongoing series about what it takes to manage an application after it's let loose in the wild. The series is produced in partnership with AppSignal, our favorite application monitoring solution. Use the promo code SHIPPEDIT and you'll receive an additional month free (beyond the standard free month) from AppSignal. This week's Shipped It! segment is about staging servers.

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In this week's episode, Sean and Kyle discuss Kyle's decision to finish his college degree.

There's also a new segment of Shipped It!, our ongoing series about what it takes to manage an application after it's let loose in the wild. The series is produced in partnership with AppSignal, our favorite application monitoring solution. Use the promo code SHIPPEDIT and you'll receive an additional month free (beyond the standard free month) from AppSignal. This week's Shipped It! segment is about unified notifications.

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Sean is falling apart! We talk about the physical challenges of programming and how to prevent and deal with wrist, hand, back, eye, leg, and other challenges.

No Shipped It! segment this week, but we'll be back with a new one next week. Shipped It! is an ongoing series about what it takes to manage an application after it's let loose in the wild. The series is produced in partnership with AppSignal, our favorite application monitoring solution. Use the promo code SHIPPEDIT and you'll receive an additional month free (beyond the standard free month) from AppSignal.

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Kyle and Sean talk about Kyle's trip to Dean Kamen's house/hanger and preview Rails 5. Plus, a new Shipped It! episode about Kyle's ongoing quest to removed a complicated serialized attribute.

Shipped It! is an ongoing series about what it takes to manage an application after it's let loose in the wild. The series is produced in partnership with AppSignal, our favorite application monitoring solution. Use the promo code SHIPPEDIT and you'll receive an additional month free (beyond the standard free month) from AppSignal.

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Sean and Kyle are back to talk about Sean's Little Professor replica in Ember, plus the debut of Shipped It!, a new segment about managing applications that have already been shipped. There's also a bit of time at the end for a good mailbag question.

Presented in partnership with AppSignal.

Links for this episode:

Recreating Little Professor in Ember
Little Professor Replica
github.com/barelyknown/little-professor
github.com/github/scientist
github.com/technoweenie/serialized_attributes

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Kyle and Sean talk about Sean's experience this week moving an application out of development and into production.

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Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub, joins Sean and Kyle to talk about how to choose the right systems for the job. The conversation gets interesting right quick!

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Sean and Kyle are stressed! In this episode, they talk through how they got there and try to come up with an inner peace game plan.

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Kyle teaches Sean some lessons about implementing and scaling webhook APIs.

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Sean and Kyle talk about the economics of open source software.

Squarespace: A better web starts with your website.

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Kyle returns from GitHub Universe and tells Sean all about the new GitHub Integrations Directory, a service that he's been working on this year that just shipped. Plus, a teeny sneak peak at the upcoming money-in-open-source-software conversation.

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AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast.

Mike Coutermarsh from Product Hunt joins Sean Devine as guest cohost to give a behind-the-scenes look at Product Hunt. Topics include Product Hunt's new features, its technical architecture and transition to an API-first development style, and their successful experience with Heroku.

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AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast.

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Sean and Kyle debrief on the successful (phew!) API-First training seminar, and talk about the upcoming GitHub Universe conference.

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Sean and Kyle talk about differences between enterprise applications and consumer applications, and treating the human UI as the exception state. They also answer a handful of questions from listener Colin Rubbert.

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Sean and Kyle discuss how to be an effective remote team member, and how to build an effective remote team. Plus a bit of a twins update.

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Two primary topics this week:

Overcoming legacy code. Kyle describes the lessons that he's learned being the primary maintainer of a legacy code base. (Lots of good advice here).
Building Rails Engines. Sean describes his experience building a Rails engine to interface with FancyHands.

Links for this episode:

github.com/togglepro/task_master

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Kyle and Sean discuss the unavoidable existence and importance of your personal brand as a programmer. Plus the usual follow up and dog barking.

Links for this episode:

Kyle Daigle is a GitHubber!
barelyknown/linotype (Sean's letterpress solver)
Tracking holidaybullshit.com Orders With Google Sheets
Daily Fantasy Sports (FanDuel) NBA Optimization Model

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Sean and Kyle talk mostly about programming-related employment and labor topics including recruiters, bootcamps, 10X developers, and technocrats. You'll either love it or hate it!

Links for this episode:

barelyknown/casper_pets
Tweet with stats from casper.com about cosleeping with pets
http://apifirst.training

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Sean Devine and Kyle Daigle prognosticate on the future of Rails, discuss Sean's experience thus far with the FancyHands API for outbound call automation, talk about README cultures, and announce Sean's API-first development training seminar.

Links for this episode:

Lotus - A complete web framework in Ruby
Phoenix Framework
FancyHands API
Sean becomes core team member of jsonapi-resources
apifirst.training - Sean's API-first development seminar - online Sep 16-18th

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Sean Devine and Kyle Daigle talk about the recently completed GitHub Summit, conference/dinner strategies, the github/scientist library, a potential Elixir codecation, and so much more. And Kyle sounds a bit better ;)

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Sean Devine and Kyle Daigle talk about the GitHub Summit (this week) & outage (last week), working in silence, ActionCable (tests, collaboration, copyright), Sean's JSON API talk at Boston Ember, and SELF HELP.

Links for this episode:

GitHub Status - 2015-07-06
rails/actioncable
JSON API 1.0 talk at Boston Ember
Configure exception class whitelist to be reraised by operations processors. Pull Request #290 · cerebris/jsonapi-resources

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Kyle Daigle joins Sean Devine as cohost to kick off a new season of the Ruby on Rails Podcasts (woohoo!). Topics include Atom 1.0, RSpec 3.3, API documentation, OS contributions, and "Who Moved my Cheese?". You're gonna like-it-a-lot.

Links for this episode:

@kdaigle
Atom 1.0
RSpec 3.3 has been released!
github.com/zipmark/rspec_api_documentation
atom: Add "Copy Permalink" based on SHA
ice_cube: Parse time zones when creating schedules from ICAL; fix DST test bug
jsonapi-resources: Add support for creating resources with polymorphic has one and has many.

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Chris Ball joins Sean Devine to talk about his great website, fromrailstoember.com.

Links for this episode:

fromrailstoember.com
@cball_
echobind.com

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Toran Billups provides Sean Devine with some Ember counseling.

Links for this episode:

toranbillups.com
toranb/ember-cli-simple-store
EMBERCONF 2015 - TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT BY EXAMPLE
@toranb
stackoverflow: How can I avoid scrolling to top of viewport when adding record using pushPayload?

Eric Steele joins Sean Devine to discuss @dhh's RailsConf 2015 keynote.

Links for this episode:

@genericsteele
RailsConf Keynote (~23 minutes in)
EmberConf 2015 Keynote

Eric Steele joins Sean Devine to preview Railsconf 2015. Whether you're going (like Eric) or not (like Sean), you'll like this episode.

Links for this episode:

@genericsteele
railsconf.com

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Dan Gebhardt joins Sean Devine to talk about json-api, jsonapi-resources, orbit.js, and Ember Data.

Links for this episode:

@dgeb
json-api/json-api
jsonapi.org
cerebris/jsonapi-resources
orbitjs/orbit.js
@larrygebhardt

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Darrell Silver, CEO of Thinkful, joins Sean to talk about professional education, programming schools, spreadsheet programming, on-demand assistance, and more.

Links for this episode:

darrellsilver.com
@darrellsilver
thinkful.com
DeVry University

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Justin Weiss, author of Practicing Rails and justinweiss.com, joins Sean to talk about developing a learning plan, small test apps, testing, interacting with the community, finding time to build your skills and more.

Links for this episode:

justinweiss.com
Practicing Rails
Emberconf 2015 Keynote
Toran Billups Live Coding TDD at Emberconf 2015
@justinweiss

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Sean Devine was interviewed on the Descriptive Podcast with Kahlil Lechelt. Topics include Sean's career as a programmer, TDD, DHH, API-first development, JSON API, Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.

Links for this episode:

Descriptive 11: I Probably Wrote 70 Tests Today or Something with Sean Devine

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This is an interview from Full Stack Radio.

In this episode, Adam talks with Sean Devine, host of the Ruby on Rails podcast. Sean gives Adam an introduction to building applications with Ember, and how it's different than the way you might sprinkle AngularJS into a mostly server-side app. They talk about why your Ember apps shouldn't be mixed in with your server-side code, and the advantages that come along with building a server-side API with no front end of it's own.

Links for this episode:

Full Stack Radio Episode 8

Toggle: Quick and efficient solutions to technical problems using a global network of professionals carefully selected for each project.

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Rigel St. Pierre joins Sean Devine and preview the new format of the podcast for 2015. This episode is a return to mostly Ruby and Rails topics, with a bit of Ember and gibber jabbering.

Links for this episode:

@rigelstpierre
epicurrence.com
Bandsintown
robots.thoughtbot.com
cerebris/jsonapi-resources
clearbit

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Brian Cardarella of the software consultancy DockYard joins Sean Devine to talk about some of the lessons that he's learned growing their business. Other topics include Ember (including ember-cli and ember-data) and DockYard's focus on client-side applications, the business of Ruby on Rails development, the JSON:API standard, and more.

Links for this episode:

@bcardarella
github.com/bcardarella
Lessons Learned - Three years of running a software consultancy
emberjs.com
jsonapi.org
cerebris/jsonapi-resources

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Josh Smith joins Sean Devine to talk about when and why to separate server applications from their clients, when you should roll your own authentication solution (never), and the precise location of Sean's mother-in-law.

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Trek Glowacki joins Sean Devine to talk about learning Ember, creating effective guides and documentation, and purchasing Skymall gift certificates on Groupon.

Links for this episode:

@trek
Ember Guides
Skymall on Groupon

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Steve Robinson from rubynow.com joins Sean to talk about recruiting, recruiters, and solar panel junk mail.

Links for this episode:

rubynow.com
Representing Programmers as if They Were Celebrities - nighttime.com
@sdrphd

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Dayswork: Dayswork makes it easy for freelancers and teams to record what they’ve worked on and invoice their clients quickly and accurately.

The team from RefactorCop joins Sean Devine to talk about their excellent project that won the 2014 Rails Rumble.

Links for this episode:

RefactorCop
rubocop on GitHub
RefactorCop Rails Rumble Entry Details

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Flora Saramago joins Sean Devine to talk about winning the solo award in the 2014 Rails Rumble for Pack Pal.

Links for this episode:

packpal.co
Pack Pal's Rails Rumble entry
florasaramago.com

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Carlos Souza from Code School joins Sean Devine to discuss programming education, the open source software community, and Code School's courses and screencasts.

Links for this episode:

Code School
@caike

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Sean talks with Brittany and Risa from Ninefold's customer support team about his experience using Ninefold on a new application.

Links for this episode:

ninefold.com

Ninefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps.

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Sean Devine reviews the 2014 Rails Rumble entries, points out some highlights, and reveals who he would pick as the winner.

Links for this episode:

Rails Rumble Entries

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Nick Mango joins Sean Devine to talk about Swell, his new service that let's you know instantly when something exciting is happening on your website. Also, they share some final thoughts about the upcoming Rails Rumble.

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Sean Devine recorded his first solo podcast to talk about his first solo hackathon entry. This episode is chock full of advice about how to compete in a hackathon, especially if you're on a small/solo team and/or are old.

Links for this episode:

Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon
callforpractice.com
Twilio
Rails Rumble 2014

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Reid Carlberg joins Sean Devine to preview another! October hackathon - the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon at Dreamforce 2014 in San Francisco, CA from October 10th - 12th. Since one of the categories is Heroku, Rails developers are a great match for the event.

Links for this episode:

SALESFORCE $1 MILLION HACKATHON
@reidcarlberg
heroku.com

Imran Raja and Shah Sikder, two of the three team members that built Caller Key - the winner of the 2013 Rails Rumble, join Sean Devine to discuss their victory.

Links for this episode:

CallerKey Rails Rumble Entry Page
callerkey.com
twilio.com
imranraja.com
Kuju

Ninefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps.

SmartThings: Control your home using your smartphone…from anywhere.

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Josh Owens, Meteor developer and former winner of the Rails Rumble, talks to Sean Devine about the entry that won and some others that didn't. He also gives an overview of the basics of Meteor because Sean knows nothing.

Links for this episode:

@joshowens
Meteor
railsrumble.com

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Kelli Shaver, winner of the 2013 Rails Rumble solo division, joins Sean Devine to talk about her many Rails Rumble entries and last year's VICTORY.

Links for this episode:

Itemize - Rails Rumble winning entry
github.com/kellishaver
@kellishaver
kellishaver.com
Nitch Podcast
StickyAlbums
railsrumble.com

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Tom & Nick Mango - organizers of the Rails Rumble - join Sean Devine to preview the this year's competition. This is the first in a series of episodes about the Rails Rumble (a 48 hour application development competition in October). If you've participated in the past or are thinking about participating this year, you should definitely listen to this episode.

Links for this episode:

railsrumble.com
@tsmango
@Alternate1985
Earmarkd - Sean's 2012 Entry
Kayla's Tour - Sean's 2013 Entry

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Jim Chevalier, creator of citystrides.com, joins Sean Devine in person! to talk about the creation of his great run-every-street-in-my-city website.

Links for this episode:

@jameschevalier
citystrides.com
k-d tree Wikipedia entry
kdtree Ruby gem GitHub repository
PostGIS - Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL
RunKeeper
CityStrides map of Jim and Sean's run

MailChimp.com means easy email newsletters. MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.

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Jim Remsik, organizer of Madison+ Ruby, joins Sean Devine to talk about the history of the Madison+ Ruby conference and what to expect at the event this weekend.

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Justin Weiss (@justinweiss) joins Sean Devine to talk about his Rails-focused blog at http://www.justinweiss.com and his upcoming book.

Links for this episode:

justinweiss.com
justinweiss.com weekly newsletter
github.com/justinweiss
@justinweiss
A Guide to Choosing the Best Gems for Your Ruby Project
Search and Filter Rails Models Without Bloating Your Controller
seanwes podcast
beeminder.com
Don’t Fave This Post: How to REALLY Launch in 2014
rubyflow.com

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Olga Raskina joins Sean Devine to discuss her journey from secondary school in Soviet Russia to her undergraduate degree at Moscow State University to her PhD at Columbia University in NYC to her professional career in Operations Research and programming. They discuss formal vs informal education and the upside of each approach along with lots of related topics.

Links for this episode:

Madison+ Ruby
@jremsikjr
@MadisonRuby
Adorable.io

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Raygun - Get notified about your software's bugs as they happen. Raygun was built by Mindscape, the development tools company, and is trusted by thousands of organizations, big and small. It integrates in minutes with your Ruby on Rails application (or any other programming language or framework too). Get started for free today at raygun.io/5by5 and receive a $50 account credit by using the discount code 5BY5.

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Find Codeship on codeship.io/5by5ruby and use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Peter Cooper (@peterc) - publisher of Cooper Press - discusses his email newsletter empire (including Ruby Weekly) with lots of side trips along the way.

Links for this episode:

@peterc on Twitter
@CooperPress on Twitter
Cooper Press
Ruby Weekly Newsletter
peterc.org

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Sean Devine is the interviewee and Eric Steele plays host. Topics include how Sean started to program, web scraping via Mechanize and Watir, the Ruby Quiz as therapy, the evolution of Ruby's testing culture and much much more.

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Sean Devine is joined by Flo Motlik from Codeship to discuss continuous delivery, the history of Codeship and some of the biggest challenges involved in running a CI service. Plus coconuts and peaches.

Links for this episode:

@flomotlik on Twitter
github.com/flomotlik
codeship.io
Kendo on Wikipedia
One Reason Cross-Cultural Small Talk Is So Tricky - Coconut vs Peach

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Sean Devine talks with Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) about why he develops software for the Apple ecosystem (mostly OS X) and how that experience compares and contrasts to developing software in an OSS environment like Ruby on Rails.

Links for this episode:

@danielpunkass on Twitter
Red Sweater Software
Core Intuition podcast
github.com/danielpunkass
MarsEdit - Desktop blog editing for Mac OS X

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Sean Devine talks to Lex Friedman, the EVP Sales and Development of Midroll, a large podcast ad sales network. Lex describes the full time Ruby on Rails programming position that they are looking to fill. There's also plenty of behind-the-scenes stories about the podcasting world.

If you want to apply for the Ruby on Rails position at Midroll, email lex@midroll.com.

Links for this episode:

@lexfri on Twitter
Midroll - Podcast advertising network
Turning This Car Around podcast
Your Daily Lex podcast

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous delivery simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Eric Steele talks about releasing his new book, "What Do I Test?".

Links for this episode:

@genericsteele
Dub Side of the Moon
Pitchfork
What Do I Test?
Fuck you Jobu! I do it myself!

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Nick tells Sean about his rubygems fantasies, ranks his noteworthiness, clarifies the contents of concert balloons, and provides free parenting advice.

Links for this episode:

rubygems.org
@qrush on Twitter
CoworkBuffalo
Nickel City Ruby
Basecamp
AqueousBand.net
RUSH
Phish
Bourbon (and friends)
Heroku Postgres

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Sean Devine learns about Twilio from Greg Baugues.

Links for this episode:

@greggyb on Twitter
twilio.com
github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby
github.com/ZestFinance/zestphone

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code RAILS at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

Sean Devine learns about elasticsearch from Ben Hundley of Qbox.

Links for this episode:

elasticsearch.org
Qbox

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code RAILS at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

Sean Devine talks with Oren Dobzinski of Desk.com about service oriented architecture, elasticsearch, immutability, working remotely and much, much more.

Links for this episode:

The desk.com api
@orend on Twitter
Oren's blog - re-factor.com
Blog post => Slow Tests are the Symptom Not the Cause
Datomic
elasticsearch
Desk.com

Codeship - Codeship makes continuous deployment simple. Start out with Codeship’s free plan; setup only takes three minutes. Find Codeship on codeship.io/5by5ruby and use the offer code 5BY5RUBY to get 20% off ANY plan for 3 months.

Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code SPRING at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

Sean Devine talks with Ross Penman, a 15 year old programmer from Scotland, about what it's like to learn to program as a kid, opportunities to improve technical education, and the Scottish independence referendum.

Links for this episode:

@PenmanRoss on Twitter
penman on GitHub
rosspenman.com
On Computing Education - The Windows Movie Maker Problem
Google Map of Scotland
Scottish independence Wikipedia page

Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code SPRING at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at www.codeship.io and check out their blog at blog.codeship.io.

Sean Devine talks with Jamis Buck about his new fantasy blog/book about algorithms - "Basil & Fabian" and his history with Rails and 37signals.

lynda.com - lynda.com offers thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills—everything from productivity and collaboration to photography and video editing. Access unlimited courses for $25 per month. Try out lynda.com for free for 7 days at lynda.com/rubyonrails.

Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at www.codeship.io and check out their blog at blog.codeship.io.

Sean Devine talks with Chad Fowler about the early days of Ruby and Rails and the heterogeneous architecture of Wunderlist.

Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at www.codeship.io and check out their blog at blog.codeship.io.

lynda.com - lynda.com offers thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills—everything from productivity and collaboration to photography and video editing. Access unlimited courses for $25 per month. Try out lynda.com for free for 7 days at lynda.com/rubyonrails.

Sean Devine and Chad Pytel discuss @dhh's controversial RailsConf 2014 keynote and the current state of thoughtbot.

Links for this episode:

Justin.tv - Confreaks - Live Streaming - RailsConf 2014 Opening Keynote Part 1

Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at www.codeship.io and check out their blog at blog.codeship.io.

lynda.com - lynda.com offers thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills—everything from productivity and collaboration to photography and video editing. Access unlimited courses for $25 per month. Try out lynda.com for free for 7 days at lynda.com/rubyonrails.

Sean Devine and Eric Steele preview RailsConf 2014.

Codeship - The Codeship is continuous deployment made simple. You can set up continuous integration in a few steps and automatically deploy when all your tests have passed. It has great support for lots of languages and test frameworks. Integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. Deploy to cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Nodejitsu, Google App Engine or your own servers. Start with the free plan and setup only takes 3 minutes. Find The Codeship at www.codeship.io and check out their blog at blog.codeship.io.

lynda.com - lynda.com offers thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills—everything from productivity and collaboration to photography and video editing. Access unlimited courses for $25 per month. Try out lynda.com for free for 7 days at lynda.com/rubyonrails.

Sean Devine has a conversation with Horace Dediu of Asymco about open source software.

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workonrails.com - use code RELAUNCH to post your job for free

Eric Steele - Rails contractor and author of the upcoming book "What Do I Test?" - talks about growing up in rural Pennsylvania, his programming history, and his new book about learning to test.

Squarespace - the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code UNICORN at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

workonrails.com - use code RELAUNCH to post your job for free

Mike Perham - creator of Sidekiq and Sidekiq Pro - talks about the history of Sidekiq, the brand new 3.0 release, the Sidekiq Pro commercial add on, money in open source, and related topics.

workonrails.com Ruby on Rails job board. Use code RELAUNCH to post a job for free while supplies last.

Sean has a conversation with Terence Lee. Terence is known for his work at Heroku and his open source contributions to Ruby Core, Bundler and Resque.

workonrails.com Ruby on Rails job board. Use code RELAUNCH to post a job for free while supplies last.

A conversation with Michael Bernsten (@mrb_bk) from Code Climate.

workonrails.com Ruby on Rails job board. Use code RELAUNCH to post a job for free while supplies last.

This is the relaunch episode of the podcast after a nearly 5 year hiatus.

In this episode, Sean has a conversation with Dave Paola, the cofounder and CTO of Bloc.

workonrails.com Ruby on Rails job board. Use code RELAUNCH to post a job for free while supplies last.

bloc.io: Online apprenticeship program. Use code RAILS to save $100.

This episode was originally published on December 22, 2005.

The creator of the Seaside Smalltalk framework talks about the philosophy behind different web frameworks.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on December 17, 2005.

Rick Olson explains the Rails plugin system, RJS templates, and Rails-weenie.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on December 7, 2007.

James Cox, former PHP team member and current Rails consultant. From London.

Also mentioned:

Get the scoop on Rails 2.0 from Ryan Daigle’s PDF minibook at PeepCode.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on December 7, 2005.

A List Apart Systems Developer Dan Benjamin talks about developing a high traffic volume site with Rails.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on December 5, 2006.

The creator of Ruby.

From RubyConf in Denver, Colorado.

Translation by Stephen Munday.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 29, 2005.

Chad Fowler talks about his new book, RubyGems, and RailsConf.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 22, 2008.

Monty Williams of Gemstone recounts the history of the MagLev Ruby interpreter project.

From RubyConf 2008 in Orlando.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 21, 2007.

Ryan Daigle talks about his blog, the upcoming Rails 2.0, and freelancing with style.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 21, 2006.

A chat with the members of EdgeCase, a Ruby consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 17, 2007.

Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way.

From RubyConf in Charlotte, North Carolina.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

The Ruby Way

This episode was originally published on November 14, 2008.

Conversations from RubyConf 2008. With Matt Aimonetti of Merb, Blake Mizerany of Sinatra, and Josh Peek of Rails.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 9, 2007.

Robert Stevenson interviews Stuart Halloway at eRubyCon in Ohio.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on November 3, 2006.

Correspondent Robert Stevenson interviews two developers from investment banking company JPMorgan Chase.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 29, 2005.

ODEO’s lead developer talks about developing with agility and moving to Rails 1.0

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 26, 2007.

A London-based developer talks about keeping government accountable in New Zealand and around the world.

Also mentioned:

They Work For You NZ
The Sunlight Foundation

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 26, 2006.

A chat with Greg Edwards of EyeTools ( blog), a user interface research lab.

Elsewhere: Matz Keynote, Adam Keys USSRuby Sketch ( alt), and the Erlang promo video.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 24, 2008.

Jacqui Maher talks about the technical challenges involved in writing Rails apps for a medical team in Malawi. Pat Allan encourages Rails developers to volunteer their time and skills.

Developers from Intridea discuss hacking Rails internals, UI design, and mid-end development.

From RailsConf 2008 in Berlin.

Also mentioned: * Baobab Health

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 19, 2007.

Interviews with David Chelimsky, Dave Troy, Nick Sieger, and David Heinemeier Hansson.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 19, 2005.

Amy Hoy talks about learning Rails, website usability and her upcoming book.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 18, 2006.

The founders of BillMonk talk about building a community site with Rails, email as an API, and dynamically generated graphics.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 17, 2005.

Obie and Matt reflect on the whirlwind of long beards, huge slides, and curly brackets known as RubyConf.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 11, 2007.

Rails core member Michael Koziarski talks about Rails 2.0, the new patch process, and working on the core team.

From RailsConf in Berlin.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 9, 2006.

A member of the rSpec team talks about Behavior Driven Development. From the offices of Bekk in Oslo, Norway.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 8, 2008.

Wilson Bilkovich explains the recent rewrite of Rubinius.

Lars Pind discusses Coach TV, his new video blog on happiness and personal development for geeks.

Also mentioned * PeepCode CouchDB Screencast

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 6, 2007.

Martin Sadler of Working with Rails.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 6, 2007.

A chat with James Cox after the Future of Web Apps conference in London.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 6, 2007.

Rob Mckinnon talks about keeping citizens informed and politicians honest with They Work for You.

See also:

RailsConf Slides PDF

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on October 1, 2008.

Charles Nutter of JRuby, from erubycon.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

David Chelimsky, RSpec developer.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

Andrew Goundry.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

Soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

The author of the Hobo plugin.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

Kashif Rasul, http://nomad-labs.com

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

David Heinemeier Hansson.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2007.

Jay Fields, Thoughtworks developer.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 28, 2006.

The author of the Learn to Program website and book talks about learning and teaching Ruby.

Also check out the forum donated by core member Rick Olson and coding mastermind Josh Goebel.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 24, 2007.

Christian Neukirchen, Ruby veteran and inventor of the tumblelog.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 21, 2005.

Thomas Fuchs talks about writing the script.aculo.us libraries and changing the world with Ruby.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 20, 2006.

Charles Nutter of JRuby talks about his recent hiring by Sun Microsystems. Also features a report from the crowd with Damien Tanner and Max Williams of New Bamboo.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 16, 2008.

Jim Weirich, from erubycon.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on September 9, 2005.

Core developer Jamis Buck talks about Switchtower and working at 37signals.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 30, 2008.

Ian Dees talks about his new book on testing GUI applications. His company uses Ruby to test handheld devices.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 29, 2006.

A clarification of what it means for Rails to enter the enteprise, and a preview of the upcoming Rails Edge conferences.

Also mentioned:

Sydney, Australia workshop with Geoffrey Grosenbach this November

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 26, 2005.

Core developer and Typo blog creator Tobias Luettke tells about the history of the blog and how he designs beautiful software with Rails.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 24, 2007.

Robert Stevenson interviews Bruce Tate about Changing the Present and Ruby in the enterprise.

From eRubyCon in Columbus, OH.

Deploying Rails Applications
Previous interview with Bruce Tate in March, 2006

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 21, 2006.

The authors of the Softies on Rails blog talk about developing Rails apps on the Windows platform.

Also mentioned:

Portland, Oregon Rails workshop with Jeremy Voorhis
Sydney, Australia workshop with Geoffrey Grosenbach
PeepCode screencasts

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 6, 2008.

In person with Hampton Catlin, Anita Kuno, Wayne Seguin, and Nathan Weizenbaum, plus a cameo appearance by Jay Phillips.

From the RubyFringe conference in Toronto.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on August 3, 2006.

A report from RailsConf with Japanese developer Shugo Maeda. Translated by Stephen Munday.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 27, 2006.

The founder of the Rails Podcast muses about acts_as_state_machine, running a business, and keeping up your Rails face.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 23, 2008.

Consulting firm Contrast talks about their upcoming app, Exceptional. Mike Gilbert of XLCRS talks about using Rails to solve everyday problems.

From Dublin, Ireland.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 19, 2005.

Author Dave Thomas talks about the upcoming Rails book and how he started with Ruby.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 12, 2006.

The lead developer of the Django framework shares his perspectives on solving the problems of website development.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 12, 2008.

Interviews with the developers of Apricado, New Relic RPM and Phusion Passenger.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 11, 2005.

Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson talks about writing Rails.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 6, 2007.

Interviews from Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam.

Wakoopa
Eloy Duran
Slidez
Photos from Thijs van der Vossen

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 3, 2008.

Adam Keys interviews Geoffrey Grosenbach about his blog, PeepCode, and the bass.

We also introduce the term for 2008: show the whale.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 1, 2008.

David Coallier on the penny whistle, from Dublin, Ireland.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on July 1, 2008.

From Dublin, Ireland.

workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

This episode was originally published on June 28, 2006.

Hear about integration tests, optimization, and the tumblelog from Sam Stephenson (creator of Prototype, Rails core, 37signals) and Marcel Molina (Rails core, 37signals).

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This episode was originally published on June 18, 2007.

Part II of a discussion with and about women in development.

See also:

Devchix

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This episode was originally published on June 17, 2006.

Newly knighted Rails blogger Josh Susser muses on database relationships and reliable apps.

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This episode was originally published on June 13, 2008.

Developers from GitHub and Powerset with a short appearance by photographer James Duncan Davidson.

For even more about GitHub, check out their Gitsplosion! podcast.

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The RubyCentral co-founder talks about his new book, Ruby for Rails.

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam.

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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This episode was originally published on June 12, 2007.

From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam

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This episode was originally published on June 7, 2008.

Garrett Dimon talks about his new company Next Update and their bug tracker Sifter.

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This episode was originally published on June 6, 2009.

An entrepreneur talks about the scrum management process and a new site his company built in Rails to help companies and individuals manage projects.

Also Mentioned * ScrumNinja * Six Scrum Lessons Every Rails Developer Should Know

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This episode was originally published on June 3, 2008.

Ryan Singer of 37signals talks about Rails, design, and “touching the magic wand.”

From RailsConf at the Heroku booth.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Several star developers from Powerset.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preston-Werner talk about GitHub.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Garrett Dimon discusses his upcoming issue tracker.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Apricado, a site for musicians.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

The newest phenoms of the Rails community, Phusion their Passenger module for Apache.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

New Relic, a performance tracking application.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Adam Keys talks about the term “show the whale”, which we try to add to the terminology of the Rails community in 2008.

In 2007, we successfully introduced “duck punching,” which is now in wikipedia and was validated by why the lucky stiff.

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This episode was originally published on June 2, 2008.

Adam Keys interviews Geoffrey Grosenbach.

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This episode was originally published on June 1, 2007.

Jen May Wu, Dr. Ana Nelson, Liz Summerfield, Sandy Metz, Carmelyne Thompson, Cynthia Kaiser, and Desi McAdam discuss the state of women in open source programming.

Relevant links:

Carmelyne Thompson
Desi McAdam
Ana Nelson
Devchix

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This episode was originally published on May 31, 2006.

The lead developer of StreetEasy talks about bridging web 1.0 and web 2.0 for the New York real estate market.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Interviews from RailsConf 2007 in Portland.

Joey Devilla
Mike Sax
Scott Becker ( asset_packager plugin)
Trotter Cashion ( Rails Refactoring to Resources)
Mark Mansour
Murray Steele ( also mentioned)
Dr. Nic Williams
Josh Goebel ( Beast, Pastie)
Adam Keys
Patrick Ewing
Rand Fitzpatrick ( Hackety Hack)
Uncut and Upcoming Rails Podcast Episodes

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

The Godfather of RejectConf rewrites ri.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Alex demos his Javascript class library.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Luke Melia of NYC.rb hacks Mime::Type to do a separate mobile layout.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Jamie Macey demos code coverage hack.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Dr. Nic demos newgem.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Joannou from NYC demos a carousel Javascript effect.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Sebastian Delmont of NYC.rb on his embedded_action plugin.

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This episode was originally published on May 21, 2007.

Tom Preston-Werner and Dave Fayram demo Fuzed, an Erlang and Rails server.

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This episode was originally published on May 20, 2008.

The founders of Biznik talk about business networking, their BizJam Conference, and Rails.

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This episode was originally published on May 17, 2006.

Take a tour of RubyForge with sysadmin Tom Copeland!

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This episode was originally published on May 14, 2007.

The author of HAML rants on markup, Macs, diversity, and tech writing.

Also mentioned

Unspace Interactive
Beginning Ruby on Rails book from Apress
PeepCode Press announcement

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This episode was originally published on May 9, 2009.

Interviews with Yehuda Katz, Ed Allan, Joe Fiorini, and Blue Box Hosting.

Also Mentioned * Yehuda Katz * Joe Fiorini * Blue Box Hosting

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This episode was originally published on May 9, 2008.

A Seattle-based entrepreneur and developer talks about starting businesses.

Also mentioned:

Ben Curtis blog
Catch the Best
RailsKits
Agile Web Development directory

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This episode was originally published on May 7, 2006.

Obie Fernandez of ThoughtWorks gives a peek into how Ruby is making inroads into the enterprise.

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This episode was originally published on May 7, 2007.

The author of the popular RubyInside blog talks about his new book and about entrepreneurship.

Listen to this podcast for a chance to win a copy of Peter’s book, Beginning Ruby!

Also mentioned

Beginning Ruby
Ruby Inside
Peter Cooper’s Personal Blog
Feed Digest

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This episode was originally published on May 3, 2008.

Consultant Ryan Norbauer talks about outsourcing vs. offshoring, social networks, and his RubyRags t-shirt site.

Also mentioned:

Ryan’s article on social networks at Vitamin

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This episode was originally published on May 2, 2007.

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This episode was originally published on May 2, 2007.

Hampton Catlin, creator of the HAML templating library.

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This episode was originally published on May 2, 2007.

Jake Howerton on the NYC subway.

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This episode was originally published on May 2, 2007.

Paul Dix on natural language processing with Ruby.

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This episode was originally published on April 28, 2009.

Rich Kilmer talks about MacRuby and Aaron Quint discusses Sinatra. From GoGaRuCo in San Francisco.

Also Mentioned * MacRuby * Rich Kilmer * Sinatra * Aaron Quint * GoGaRuCo

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This episode was originally published on April 26, 2007.

The author of Mongrel talks about its development and condemns HTTP while offering to save the internet with hate.

Also mentioned:

EastMedia
CityCliq
OpenID
Personal Software Process
Mongrel Book
PeepCode Screencast on webserver benchmarking, with Zed Shaw

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This episode was originally published on April 25, 2006.

Planet Argonites Robby Russell and Jeremy Voorhis team up on Rails deployment, refactoring, databases, and National Album Recording Month.

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This episode was originally published on April 22, 2008.

Nathan Sobo of Pivotal Labs talks about Treetop, a cutting-edge parser written in Ruby.

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This episode was originally published on April 20, 2009.

Aaron Quint on the Sinatra and gems that embed webapps.

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This episode was originally published on April 20, 2009.

Ruby veteran Rich Kilmer talks about MacRuby.

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This episode was originally published on April 17, 2006.

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, talks about the appeal of Ruby as a dynamic language and where Java might have a place in the future of Rails. Also features Obie Fernandez and Dave Astels.

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This episode was originally published on April 14, 2009.

The developers of Intuit’s community site talk about building Rails applications.

Also Mentioned * Intuit Community Site * Brian Morearty * Thomas Hanley

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This episode was originally published on April 6, 2007.

The creator of Twitter talks about developing the popular messaging site.

Also mentioned:

Jack Dorsey
Alex Payne

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This episode was originally published on March 29, 2007.

The serial entrepreneur

talks about his latest startup.

Also mentioned:

Stikkit
Michael Buffington
Blosxom blog engine
Heaven on Earth

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This episode was originally published on March 28, 2008.

Derek Haynes and Andre Lewis on consulting and their side projects Scout and Placeshout.

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This episode was originally published on March 27, 2009.

The members of Highgroove Studios talk about the technical details behind an update to their Rails-based server monitoring application.

Also mentioned * Highgroove Studios * Scout * XMPP * Ara T. Howard

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This episode was originally published on March 21, 2008.

John Chaffee of BusyMac talks about how Rails helps their 2-man Mac development shop handle customer service easily. BusyMac received a MacWorld Best of Show award and recently passed the 10,000 sale mark.

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This episode was originally published on March 17, 2008.

Ian Mcfarland of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco talks about their internal project management app, pair programming, and company culture.

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This episode was originally published on March 16, 2007.

The stylishly sneakered leading proponent of unobtrusive Javascript gives advice about Rails freelancing and standards-based website development.

Also mentioned:

DanWebb.net
@media
Jeremy Keith on UJS
RailsConf London
Bape

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This episode was originally published on March 14, 2006.

A bootleg of the Why the Lucky Stiff concert at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

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This episode was originally published on March 13, 2009.

The Senior Software Architect in the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group talks about deploying time-sensitive news applications with Rails.

Sites mentioned * NYTimes Open Blog * Reconstruction * Votes * Election * Election Map * Election State Detail * Election Words * Madoff Claimants * Superbowl * Inauguration Photos * SXSW * Jacob Harris on GitHub * Jacob Harris on Twitter

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This episode was originally published on March 12, 2006.

Popular designer and PHP developer Shaun Inman tries Ruby and talks about developing Mint.

See him in Boston next month at a Carson Workshops seminar on developing extensible PHP web apps.

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This episode was originally published on March 10, 2006.

Bruce Tate has created a stir in the Java community by promoting Ruby.

His books include Beyond Java and the upcoming Ruby on Rails, Up and Running.

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This episode was originally published on March 10, 2007.

After a month, Camping Episode II!

Chris van Pelt on his cropper and presenter apps.
Manfred Stienstra talks about his HTTP authentication library for Camping and also UTF-8 encoding in “that other web framework.”

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This episode was originally published on March 8, 2008.

We follow Part I with a discussion of the brain in relation to sleep and gender.

Somewhere, I remember a mailing list post where Why the Lucky Stiff claimed to have a dream and subsequently changed the implementation of Shoes. Does anyone have the link to that?

Brain Rules website (Contains references and video samples from the DVD)
Brain Rules book (Amazon affiliate link)

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This episode was originally published on February 29, 2008.

Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina talks about his new book, Brain Rules. Learn about the need for exercise, attention-grabbing events, and our inability to multitask.

Brain Rules website (Contains references and video samples from the DVD)
Brain Rules book (Amazon affiliate link)

See also Part II.

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This episode was originally published on February 28, 2009.

Ryan Bates of RailsCasts on his day job, bowling, and the Rails Activism team.

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This episode was originally published on February 24, 2006.

The Ruby pioneer on rake task automation and good code design.

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This episode was originally published on February 18, 2008.

An eBay-funded microfinance company connects small investors with entrepreneurs in the developing world, powered by Rails.

MicroPlace
Muhammad Yunus
Pierre Omidyar

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This episode was originally published on February 16, 2009.

Rack and Sinatra committer Ryan Tomayko talks about the benefits of Rails, the value of middleware, and the future of deployment.

Also Mentioned * Ryan Tomayko * Rack * Sinatra * Heroku

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This episode was originally published on February 8, 2008.

What if your server resources were metered like your electric bill? Heroku has set out to build a metered cloud computing deployment solution for Rails.

Stick around for the last 10 minutes where we talk about the economics of startups.

Heroku
Y Combinator
Trust Commerce

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This episode was originally published on February 6, 2006.

Glenn Vanderburg on metaprogramming. Formatted as MP3 this time…enhanced MPEG-4 versions will be available in a separate feed starting next episode.

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This episode was originally published on February 3, 2007.

Three interviews with developers who use why the lucky stiff’s Camping framework.

See also

Presenter and DCSS by Myles Byrne
Cheat by Chris Wanstrath
Fog Creek Software
Dream Ledger by Michael Gorsuch
Mountain West Ruby Conference

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This episode was originally published on January 30, 2009.

Giles Bowkett, Ruby Inside Top Presenter of 2008, talks about success, startups, goals, and music.

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This episode was originally published on January 30, 2008.

A conversation with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett of Err Free consulting in San Francisco. We talk about starting a profitable side project, sending and receiving email, git source code control, using JQuery, and code interfaces to databases.

Also mentioned:

Err the Blog
FamSpam
github
god
ambition
JQuery

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This episode was originally published on January 26, 2006.

Sean Chittenden talks about his Rails re-design work with Penny-Arcade.com, server scalability, and the open source business model.

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This episode was originally published on January 23, 2007.

Tim Lucas, co-developer of Web Connections and godfather of the Sydney Ruby Brigade, talks about developing with REST and JSON.

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This episode was originally published on January 23, 2008.

The co-founder of Engine Yard and author of the upcoming book on Rails Deployment talks about Engine Yard’s recent $3.5 million funding for open source Ruby projects such as Rubinius.

From San Francisco.

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This episode was originally published on January 16, 2009.

Jeremy McAnally talks about his open source projects, documentation, and productivity.

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This episode was originally published on January 10, 2006.

Scott Raymond, developer of Blinksale, Icon Buffet, and other wonderful Rails apps.

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This episode was originally published on January 6, 2007.

Obie Fernandez interviews the members of the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade in Denmark.

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