The Ruby on Rails Podcast
884 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe 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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Episode 342: 343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn
November 04, 2020 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBAaron 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 Episode Introduction and O...
343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn
November 04, 2020 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBAaron 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.
342: [Maintainable] Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands
October 28, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes - 52.6 MBBrittany 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.
Episode 341: 342: [Maintainable] Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands
October 28, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes - 52.6 MBBrittany 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. Links for this episode: Maintainable Podcast Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Brought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free tod...
Episode 340: 341: Fearless Principles with Jason Taylor
October 21, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBJason 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 Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Spri...
341: Fearless Principles with Jason Taylor
October 21, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBJason 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.
Episode 339: 340: dry-rb, ROM.rb & “My Time with Rails is Up” with Piotr Solnica
October 14, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBRuby 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 - ...
340: dry-rb, ROM.rb & “My Time with Rails is Up” with Piotr Solnica
October 14, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBRuby 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.
Episode 338: 339: kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
October 07, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBCameron 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 y...
339: kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
October 07, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBCameron 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.
Episode 337: 338: Learn Someday & Tech for Good with Rachel Green
September 30, 2020 11:30 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBRachel 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 Episode Intr...
338: Learn Someday & Tech for Good with Rachel Green
September 30, 2020 11:30 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBRachel 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.
Episode 336: 337: Chipping Away at a Monolith with Tori Huang
September 23, 2020 11:30 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBTori 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 – M...
337: Chipping Away at a Monolith with Tori Huang
September 23, 2020 11:30 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBTori 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.
336: Brittany Has A New Job(!) && Co-Host Catchup
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIt'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.
Episode 335: 336: Brittany Has A New Job(!) && Co-Host Catchup
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIt'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. Links for this episode: 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...
Episode 334: 335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham
September 09, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBAs 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 Al...
335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham
September 09, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBAs 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.
334: Simple Lovable Complete with Michael Springer
September 02, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThe 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.
Episode 333: 334: Simple Lovable Complete with Michael Springer
September 02, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThe 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. Links for this episode: JazzHR Introduction to FDM 3D printing | Hubs Makerbot Thingiverse estruyf / unicorn-busy-server puppeteer / puppeteer Michael's Personal Site I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. by Jason Cohen sprngr (Michael Spring...
333: Logic That Serverless Logic with Ken Collins
August 26, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBKen 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.
Episode 332: 333: Logic That Serverless Logic with Ken Collins
August 26, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBKen 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 In...
332: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell
August 19, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBRobby 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.
Episode 331: 332: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell
August 19, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBRobby 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 Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Brought to you by: FusionAuth FusionAuth pro...
Episode 330: 330: Oh My Zsh & Maintainable Rails with Robby Russell
August 12, 2020 11:30 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBMaking 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. Links for this episode: 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 Der...
330: Oh My Zsh & Maintainable Rails with Robby Russell
August 12, 2020 11:30 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBMaking 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.
329: All My Best Programming Tips with Jason Swett
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBJason 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".
Episode 329: 329: All My Best Programming Tips with Jason Swett
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBJason 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". Links for this episode: The Rails with Jason Podcast All my best programming tips | Jason's Blog Code with Jason Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 328: 328: rails new cool_app --minimal with Haroon Ahmed
July 29, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThis 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 (@iamharoon...
328: rails new cool_app --minimal with Haroon Ahmed
July 29, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThis 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.
327: JetBrains & RubyMine with Natalie Kudanova
July 22, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBNatalie 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.
Episode 327: 327: JetBrains & RubyMine with Natalie Kudanova
July 22, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBNatalie 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 Natu (@NatuNuarat) | Twitter Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episod...
Episode 326: 326: Job Searching and Hiring Advice During the Pandemic with Brian Mariani
July 15, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBA 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. Links for this episode: Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!) Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Brought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experie...
326: Job Searching and Hiring Advice During the Pandemic with Brian Mariani
July 15, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBA 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.
325: [REPOST] Ruby Blend: Open Sourcing a Ruby Gem with Brittany Martin
July 08, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBBrittany 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.
Episode 325: 325: [REPOST] Ruby Blend: Open Sourcing a Ruby Gem with Brittany Martin
July 08, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBBrittany 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 Ma...
324: Rails::Engine with Vladimir Dementyev
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBVladimir 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.
Episode 324: 324: Rails::Engine with Vladimir Dementyev
July 01, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBVladimir 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...
323: Keen to Keeping Using Ruby with Nick Schwaderer
June 24, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBThe 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.
Episode 323: 323: Keen to Keeping Using Ruby with Nick Schwaderer
June 24, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBThe 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...
322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
June 17, 2020 11:30 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBKelly 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".
Episode 322: 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
June 17, 2020 11:30 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBKelly 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 Epis...
321: Ruby API and Bundler with Colby Swandale
June 10, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBColby 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!
Episode 321: 321: Ruby API and Bundler with Colby Swandale
June 10, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBColby 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 Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael ...
320: ViewComponents in Action with Andrew Mason
May 27, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBAndrew 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.
Episode 320: 320: ViewComponents in Action with Andrew Mason
May 27, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBAndrew 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 (@...
319: Gap Here and 10x Customers with Sean Devine
May 20, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBSean 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!
Episode 319: 319: Gap Here and 10x Customers with Sean Devine
May 20, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBSean 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) Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episode Music...
318: Error Messages Are Your Friends with Gina Verrastro
May 13, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBGina 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.
Episode 318: 318: Error Messages Are Your Friends with Gina Verrastro
May 13, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBGina 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...