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The Ruby on Rails Podcast

882 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★ - 35 ratings

The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Co-hosted by Elise Shaffer, Brian Mariani, Jemma Issroff and Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.

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Episodes

Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook

March 06, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes - 63.2 MB

Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked from the increased demands of the smaller teams. I know some of my listeners have experienced burnout. I myself have had a recent experience with burnout that took months to recover from. Dr. Katy Cook joins the show to teach us more about Burnout. Show Notes The Psychology of Silicon Valley (2019) (https://a.co/d/66EmOXL) APA Studies on Bur...

Episode 509: The Future Of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit

February 28, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes - 62.1 MB

Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing conferences and contributing to the community. The recent changes in governance have led t some exciting things on the horizon. Adarsh joined the show to talk about what's going to happen with Ruby Central in 2024. Show Notes Ruby Central Website - https://rubycentral.org/ Ruby Conf Musical Number Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhbX6dS6x0 Ru...

Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

February 21, 2024 13:00 - 23 minutes - 43 MB

Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT inside Shopify. YJIT is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby written in Rust. Dr. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert joined the show to talk about YJIT Show Notes YJIT Website Maxime on X https://twitter.com/Love2Code (❤️→ λ) Maxime’s Github https://github.com/maximecb

Episode 507: Stephen Margheim on SQLite in Ruby on Rails Applications

February 14, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes - 57.4 MB

If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might be using MySQL. But Rails ships with support for SQLite, a lightweight SQL database. Can that lightweight database be used to make production-ready software? Stephen Margheim joins the show to help us answer that question. Show Notes Stephen's blog post about SQLite - https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite Stephen's website fractaledmin...

Episode 506: Unwinding Flakey Tests with Alan Ridlehoover & Fito von Zastrow

February 07, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes - 59.2 MB

Fito and Alan are frequent RubyConf and RailsConf speakers on topics ranging from software complexity to resolving flaky specs. They joined the how to discuss strategies for dealing with unreliable tests and complex code. Show Notes Cisco Meraki: Careers (https://meraki.com/careers) Alan Ridlehoover’s LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/aridlehoover) Fito von Zastrow’s LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/fitovz) Talks: The Secret Ingredient: How to Understand & Resolve Just about Any Flaky Test...

Episode 505: RailsConf CFP with Andy Croll

January 31, 2024 13:00 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MB

RailsConf is coming up fast and I can’t wait to see you all there! The CFP is open and the program committee is accepting proposals for talks for the conference. Andy Croll joined the show to talk with us about the CFP process and how you can present at RailsConf ** Show Notes** Rails Conf Detroit - https://railsconf.org/ RailsConf CFP - https://sessionize.com/railsconf2024/ Speakerline.io - https://speakerline.io/

Episode 504: Kaja Santro on Managing The WNB.rb Slack workspace

January 24, 2024 13:00 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MB

Kaja is the Slack Administrator for WNB.rb, a group of women and non-binary rubyists. She joined the show to talk about becoming the Slack Administrator. She fills us in on what the job entails, how she became the slack administrator, and some of the big things she learned from contributing to WNB.rb Show Notes Twitter: @alizenero Mastodon: @[email protected] Other podcasts with Kaja: Artsy Engineering Radio & The Introspective Developer

Episode 503: Katya Dreyer-Oren on Ethical Software Development

January 17, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes - 58.1 MB

What do we owe to each other? Over the last several years, the tech industry has had a reckoning about ethics within our industry. Katya Dreyer-Oren gave a excellent talk and workshop at RubyConf in San Diego about how to ethically build software. She joined the show to share her thoughts and ideas from her experience as a student of philosophy. We’re starting something new on the podcast. We’d love to hear from you! If you have comments about this episode, send an email to comments@therubyon...

Episode 502: New Years Resolutions with Jemma Issroff

January 10, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutes - 48.3 MB

Our cohost Jemma Issroff joined me to talk about my tenure as host so far, Jemma's work on Prism, fostering communities, building habits, how to be lucky, and we reveal our New Year's Resolutions! What are your New Years Resolutions? If you'd like to share them, send an email to [email protected]. You can send text or record a short clip with Voice Memos or Recorder and attach it to the email. We'll respond to some of these comments in the future. Show Notes 2023 New Years Re...

Episode 501: Ruby For All Crossover!

January 03, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutes - 49.3 MB

I joined Julie and Andrew from Ruby For All to talk about Test Driven Development, attending conferences, and using TDD as a thinking tool.. This episode was recorded at RubyConf in San Diego. Show Notes [Ruby For All] - https://www.rubyforall.com/ Sponsors Honeybadger (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 put...

Episode 500: Episode 500 Bonanza!

December 20, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 55 MB

Can you believe its been 500 Episodes? What a wild ride. It's been so much fun to take over the show and to get to be a part of this history. Our co-host Nick Schwaderer sat down with me to talk about the history of the show, what it's been like taking over, and some ideas for things we might experiment with in the future. I hope you enjoy it. Have a comment on this episode? Email [email protected] and we'll respond to your comments in an upcoming episode. Sponsors Honeybad...

Episode 499: The Ruby on Rails Podcast X Coding Coders

December 13, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 67.6 MB

Drew Bragg is the host of Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It. We caught up to bring this special collaboration. Show Notes Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It - https://podcast.drbragg.dev/ Sponsors Honeybadger (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...

Episode 498: Remote Ruby X The Ruby on Rails Podcast

December 06, 2023 13:00 - 50 minutes - 91.8 MB

I joined Chris and Jason on Remote Ruby to talk about podcasting, the beauty of the Ruby language, Ruby outside of Rails, and why you should probably be using a state machine. It was so fun getting to talk with them and I hope you enjoy this conversation. And, be sure to subscribe to Remote Ruby! Show Notes Remote Ruby - https://www.remoteruby.com/ Sponsors Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime is...

Episode 497: Rachel Moser on The Odin Project

November 29, 2023 13:00 - 23 minutes - 54.2 MB

Rachel is a core contributor to The Odin Project, an open source education project that helps people learn Ruby and Javascript. She joined me on the show to talk about the project, how she became involved, and her role with the team. Show Notes The Odin Project - https://www.theodinproject.com/ Rachel's Github - https://github.com/rlmoser99 Sponsors Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, t...

Episode 496: Live From The RubyConf Hallway Track

November 22, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 48.2 MB

I attended Ruby Conf and took the opportunity to chat with some attendees about their experience at the conference. This was a super fun experiment and getting to hear from new voices in the community was such a treat. I hope you enjoy it! Sponsors Honeybadger (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 ...

Episode 495: Marc Reynolds on Packwerk

November 08, 2023 15:00 - 32 minutes - 59.2 MB

Marc has been building software for more than two decades, with a particular focus on the medical industry. He’s currently working with Doximity to create tools that make doctors’ lives easier. As an Engineering Manager, one of his primary focuses over the last couple years has been to figure out how to reduce unnecessary code coupling and make the lives of Doximity developers easier. He recently shared his experience with rails modularization at the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. In this ep...

Episode 494: Rails World Live! Pt 2 with Nick Schwaderer and Rafael França

November 01, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 69.8 MB

Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Rafael França about his work on the Rails Core team and releasing a new version of Rails. Sponsored By: Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/) If you are looking to start a podcast, there's never been a better time. Especially in the Ruby world. If you wanna join that world, use Buzzsprout. They provide hosting for your podcast, help with promotion, and take the hassel out of starting a podcast. They're built on Rai...

Episode 493: Rails World Live! Pt.1 With Nick Schwaderer and Andrew Mason

October 25, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 57.9 MB

Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Andrew Mason about podcasting, engaging with the Ruby community, how interest rates impact the tech industry, Turbo , and some of the new things announced at Rails World. Sponsored By: Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/) If you are looking to start a podcast, there's never been a better time. Especially in the Ruby world. If you wanna join that world, use Buzzsprout. They provide hosting for your podcast, help wi...

Episode 492: Vladimir Dementyev on Layered Design

October 18, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MB

Vladimir is a backend engineer from Mars, or Evil Martians, a consultancy specialized in product development for startups and developer tools. Vladimir is known for his work on many open-source projects in the Ruby on Rails world, such as AnyCable, Action Policy, TestProf and many more. He recently published the book Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications. Show Notes Buy Layered Design(Pakt) - https://www.packtpub.com/product/layered-design-for-ruby-on-rails-applications/9781801813785 ...

Episode 491: Reflecting on Rocky Mountain Ruby with Bekki Freeman

October 11, 2023 18:00 - 24 minutes - 55.7 MB

Bekki Freeman has been working with Ruby and Rails for 8 years. Recently, she helped organize the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. She joins Elise this week to reflect on the conference, talk about what it was like organizing, and make some karaoke plans with Elise Show Notes Bekki's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekki-freeman/ Tech Friend's: https://www.gettechfriends.com/ Episode 475 - The Return Of Rocky Mountain Ruby: https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/475 Rocky Mountain Ruby T-...

Episode 490: Ruby On Rails As A Career Choice with Olly Headey

October 04, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MB

Olly Headey joined the show to talk with Elise about his recent blog post concerning the future of Ruby on Rails as a career. We discuss his post, some survey data, and talk about software developers might want to think about this question. Show Notes: Ruby on Rails as a career choice in 2023 (https://world.hey.com/olly/ruby-on-rails-as-a-career-choice-in-2023-fe4582f5) Olly Headey (https://headey.net/) Olly's Twitter (https://twitter.com/lylo) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadg...

Episode 489: Hello, Elise! Goodbye, Brittany.

September 27, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 36.5 MB

Elise Shaffer is a trans woman and Staff Software Engineer who loves Ruby and Ruby on Rails. She is also the new host of this podcast! Brittany announces her retirement from the show after a five year run as the host. In this special episode, the pair discuss Brittany's favorite moments from her run, get to know Elise and discuss any upcoming changes for the show. Show Notes: The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 228: From the ashes... (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/228) The Ruby on Rails Podc...

Episode 488: Rubyconf 2023 Preview with Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman

September 20, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MB

Special co-host Kevin Murphy joined Brittany this week to interview Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman, co-chairs of the upcoming Rubyconf 2023 happening in San Diego. The quartet discussed lessons learned from Railsconf 2023, the approach to thinking about and planning this year's Rubyconf and what is new and different at the event. Show Notes: Buy Tickets to Rubyconf 2023 (https://rubyconf.org/register) Ruby Central (https://rubycentral.org/) Allison McMillan's website (https://daydreams...

Episode 487: Building the Rails World Application with Shami Tomita and Eric Halverson

September 13, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MB

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 (http...

Episode 486: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails with Andrew Atkinson

September 06, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MB

If you love taking about databases, this is the episode for you. Ahead of the launch of his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Andrew Atkinson joined the show with special guest co-host, Pat Bair, to talk about why he wrote a book, why he focused on PostgreSQL and his favorite feature from the upcoming 7.1 release. Show Notes: Landing page and newsletter signup for the book “High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails” (https://pgrailsbook.com/) Andrew's Tweet Announcing Beta for the...

Episode 485: A Ticket Giveaway and Kamal / Kemal (Brittany + Nick)

August 30, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MB

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 / sc...

Episode 484: Level Up in Learning with Ariel Fogel

August 23, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes - 47 MB

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.l...

Episode 483: Minimum Viable Answer (Brittany + Jemma)

August 16, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 40.8 MB

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 (h...

Episode 482: Everything is Awe(ful)some! (Brittany + Brian)

August 09, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 55.2 MB

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...

Episode 481: Advice on Sunsetting a Rails Application with Robby Russell

August 02, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 62 MB

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 Rai...

Episode 480: Gnarly Rails with Nick Maloney

July 26, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 51.4 MB

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://ww...

Episode 479: Create What You Want to Exist: Brighton Ruby (Brittany + Nick + Andy)

July 19, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 64.3 MB

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: Honeyba...

Episode 478: The Rails SaaS Conference Recap with Andrew Culver

July 12, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 67.4 MB

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://railssa...

Episode 477: YARP has been merged!! (Brittany + Jemma + Kevin)

July 05, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MB

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) M...

Episode 476: Career Ladders with Megan Marquardt-Ray

June 28, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 61.2 MB

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 H...

Episode 475: The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby with Spike Ilacqua

June 21, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 53.1 MB

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 M...

Episode 474: Ship to Learn (GitHub and AI) with Kyle Daigle

June 14, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes - 79.9 MB

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. Sho...

Episode 473: Personal Branding & Strongly Held BBQ Opinions with Cody Norman

June 07, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 58.7 MB

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://...

Episode 472: All I Wanted Was An Environment Variable (thoughtbot) with Victoria Guido and Joe Ferris

May 31, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 55 MB

Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program. Show Notes: thoughtbot (https://thoughtbot.com/) Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots (https://www.giantrobots.fm/) Mission Control's AWS Pla...

Episode 471: RubyKaigi 2023 Recap (Brittany + Jemma)

May 24, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes - 49.6 MB

The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP. Show Notes: RubyKaigi 2023 (https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) Field Report: RubyKaigi (https://blog.testdouble.com/field-reports/ruby-kaigi/) Shopify/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Stan Lo (https://dev.to/st0012) Rbspy (https://jvn...

Episode 470: A Smorgasbord of Topics (Brittany + Nick)

May 17, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 61.2 MB

Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat. Show Notes: Shogun (https://getshogun.com/) Geekbot - Run standup meetings in Slack (https://geekbot.com) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) ChatGPT (https://openai.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadge...

Episode 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live!

May 10, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 68.4 MB

Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA. Guest #1: Aaron Patterson, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify (https://twitter.com/tenderlove) Guest #2: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians (https://twitter.com/inazarova) Guest #3: Voted on by the community in an online poll: Justin Searls, Meta Programmer at Test Double (https://twi...

Episode 468: Railsconf 2023 Recap with Drew Bragg and Joël Quenneville

May 03, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 70 MB

Joël and Drew join Brittany post-conference to discuss their experience at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The trio thank the organizers, share tales from speaking and discuss their favorite talks. They wrap by discussing the new Ruby Central individual memberships and their conference plans for the rest of the year. Show Notes: The Bikeshed (https://www.bikeshed.fm/) Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Railsconf (https://railsconf.org/) In Favor of Ruby...

Episode 467: The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino

April 26, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 61.2 MB

Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities. Show Notes: The Rails Foundation (https://rubyonrails.org/foundation) Rails World (https://rubyonrails.org/2023/4/6/rails-world-is-coming) This Week in Rails newsletter (https://world.hey.com/...

Episode 466: Pairing on Code and Conference Talks with Selena Small and Michael Milewski

April 19, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 59.4 MB

Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community. Show Notes: Failure Driven (https://failure-driven.com/) Failure Driven on Twitch (https://www.tw...

Episode 465: Why Companies Don't Hire Juniors with Alex Ghiculescu

April 12, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 62.2 MB

Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions. Show Notes: Workforce.com (https://workforce.com/) Why companies don't hire juniors by Alex Ghiculescu (https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/why-companies-dont-hire-juniors) If you want to l...

Episode 464: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify with Rose Wiegley

April 05, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 64.4 MB

Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at RubyConf Mini and her recent team switch at Shopify. Show Notes: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify by Rose Wiegley (https://shopify.engineering/what-being-a-staff-developer-means-at-shopify) RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote by Rose Wiegley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GorXHiB7nw) Norm...

Episode 463: The Tightly Coupled Book Club with Mina and Aji Slater

March 29, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 82.7 MB

Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen. Show Notes: E...

Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)

March 22, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MB

What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany. Show Notes: Shoes! The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby (http://shoesrb.com/) why-archive/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf at master - GitHub (https://gith...

Episode 461: ccyalater and Merge Conflict Hit the Track! with Colleen Leonard

March 15, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 77.4 MB

Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll. Show Notes & Links: You can follow Colleen on the following platforms: * Colleen Leonard / LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-carroll-leonard/) * Colleen Leonard (@_colleenleonard) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/_colle...

Guests

Sean Devine
12 Episodes
Andy Croll
2 Episodes
Lex Friedman
2 Episodes
Ali Spittel
1 Episode
David Black
1 Episode
Glenn Vanderburg
1 Episode
Greg Baugues
1 Episode
Jason Swett
1 Episode
Nate Berkopec
1 Episode
Noah Gibbs
1 Episode
Sam Lambert
1 Episode
Scott Hanselman
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