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

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 fractaledmind.github.io (https://fractaledmind.github.io/) You can find Stephen on Twitter or Mastodon @fractaledmind. pd_loader - https://pgloader.io/ 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 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!

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 (https://youtu.be/zsGloAjneX0?si=CFR48kl3Ke0sShyh) A Brewer’s Guide to Filtering Out Complexity & Churn (https://youtu.be/RJRSosxtzbU?si=zkha6RrUoIReuPT3) Resources: The Code Gardener (https://the.codegardener.com) First Try! Software (https://firsttry.software) 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 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!

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/

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

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@therubyonrailspodcast.com. You can send text or record a comment using Voice Memos or Google Recorder on your phone and we’ll respond to some of them in a future show.  Show Notes Talk from RubyConf 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFCoWsO3HxM&pp=ygURa2F0eWEgZHJleWVyLU9yZW4%3D Katya's Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdreyeroren/ https://twitter.com/kdreyeroren https://bsky.app/profile/kdreyeroren.bsky.social

Our cohost Jemma Issroff joined me to talk about my tenure as host so far, Jemma's work on Prism, fostering communities, building habits, how to be lucky, and we reveal our New Year's Resolutions! What are your New Years Resolutions? If you'd like to share them, send an email to comments@therubyonrailspodcast.com. You can send text or record a short clip with Voice Memos or Recorder and attach it to the email. We'll respond to some of these comments in the future. Show Notes 2023 New Years Resolutions Episode (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/452) 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 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!

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 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!

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 comments@therubyonrailspodcast.com and we'll respond to your comments in an upcoming episode. 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 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!

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 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! Discourse (http://discourse.org/rorp) This episode of The Ruby on Rails Podcast is brought to you by Discourse, the online home for your community. For over a decade, Discourse has made it their mission to make the Internet a better place for online communities. Discourse is open source and is trusted by more than 20,000 online communities including some of the largest companies in the world By harnessing the power of discussion, real-time chat, and AI, Discourse makes it easy to have meaningful conversations and collaborate with your community anytime and anywhere. Are you ready to create a community? Visit ~discourse.org/rorp (http://discourse.org/rorp)~  to get one month free on all self-serve plans. Whether you’re just starting out or want to take your community to the next level, there’s a plan for you. A Basic Plan for a private invite only community. A Standard Plan if you want unlimited members and a public presence A Business Plan for active customer support communities. Plus, one of the biggest advantages to creating your own community with Discourse is that you own your data. You will always have access to all of your conversation history, and Discourse will never sell your data to advertisers. Discourse gives you everything you need in one place. Make Discourse the online home for your community.

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 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!

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, 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! ScoutAPM (http://scoutapm.com) This episode of The Ruby on Rails podcast is brought to you by Scout APM. Scout APM is a leading Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring tool that helps you identify and solve performance abnormalities faster. As a tool built for developers, by developers Scout makes it easy to get your APM setup and delivering insights in less than 4 minutes. Learn more at scoutapm.com (https://scoutapm.com/)

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 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! ScoutAPM (http://scoutapm.com) This episode of The Ruby on Rails podcast is brought to you by Scout APM. Scout APM is a leading Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring tool that helps you identify and solve performance abnormalities faster. As a tool built for developers, by developers Scout makes it easy to get your APM setup and delivering insights in less than 4 minutes. Learn more at scoutapm.com (https://scoutapm.com/)

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 episode, we talk about Packwerk, it's challenges and benefits, and how Doximity was able to modularize their monolith. Show Notes Packwerk Github - https://github.com/Shopify/packwerk Ruby At Scale - https://github.com/rubyatscale Marc Reynolds - https://github.com/marcreynolds Episode 492 with Vladimir Dementyev - https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/492 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 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! Discourse (http://discourse.org/rorp) Discourse is open source and is trusted by more than 20,000 online communities including some of the largest companies in the world By harnessing the power of discussion, real-time chat, and AI, Discourse makes it easy to have meaningful conversations and collaborate with your community anytime and anywhere. Are you ready to create a community? Visit ~discourse.org/rorp (http://discourse.org/rorp)~  to get one month free on all self-serve plans. Whether you’re just starting out or want to take your community to the next level, there’s a plan for you.

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 Rails and are active in supporting the community. Start podcasting today with Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/). 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!

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 with promotion, and take the hassel out of starting a podcast. They're built on Rails and are active in supporting the community. Start podcasting today with Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/). 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!

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 Buy Layered Design(Amazon) - https://www.amazon.com/promocode/A1F9CL9CYX3GLM 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!

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-Shirts: In the show we said we'd include a link, but then found out there is a minimum order quantity. If you didn't get a shirt and would like one, reach out to Bekki on LinkedIn and she'll try to get a group order together.

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.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!

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 Podcast | 379: MEGA Crossover Episode (The Bike Shed x Rails with Jason x Remote Ruby x The Ruby on Rails Podcast) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/379) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 454: Rubyconf @ Home: Hanami Core Team (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/454) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live! (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/469) Connect with Elise on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliseshaffer/) Elise's Personal Site (https://eliseshaffer.com/) Contact Brittany at brittany.jill.martin@gmail.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!

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://daydreamsinruby.com/) Chelsea Kaufman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelskaufman/) Kevin Murphy's website (https://kevinjmurphy.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!

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/)

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 Book (https://twitter.com/andatki/status/1696933498219569615) Andrew's Personal blog on Postgres/Rails/general topics (https://andyatkinson.com/) Rideshare Rails API app used for book examples/exercises (https://github.com/andyatkinson/rideshare) Pg_scripts repo (https://github.com/andyatkinson/pg_scripts) Andrew’s Postgres and Rails presentations and podcast appearances on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@andatki/playlists) Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) / X (https://twitter.com/andatki?lang=en) Andrew on GitHub (https://github.com/andyatkinson) Pat on Github (https://github.com/pjb4752) 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 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) joshmn /ahoy_captain (https://github.com/joshmn/ahoy_captain) 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).

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 Platform Guide (https://thoughtbot.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/APG/overview) mrsked / mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) thoughtbot Incubator (https://thoughtbot.com/incubator) victori_ousg - Victoria Guido / Twitter (https://twitter.com/victori_ousg?lang=en) Victoria Guido (@vguido@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@vguido) Joe Ferris (@joeferris) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/joeferris?lang=en) Joe Ferris (@jferris@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@jferris) 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!

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://jvns.ca/juliasections/rbspy/) 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 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.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!

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://twitter.com/searls?lang=en) Guest #4: Voted on by the community live at this session: Britni Alexander, Senior Software Engineer (https://twitter.com/TwitniTheGirl) Our Vanna White of Guest Selection: Danielle Greaves, Lead Web Developer, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (https://twitter.com/danigirl329) Show Notes: A Ruby Community Podcast Live! | Railsconf 2023 (https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/471526) Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/meet-paul) Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw) Keynote - Aaron Patterson | Railsconf 2023 (https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/471439) Rails as a piece of birthday cake | Railsconf 2023 (https://railsconf2023.sessionize.com/session/452834) Evil Martians (https://evilmartians.com/) N.E.A.T. (Not Everything's About Technology) (https://testdouble.com/neat) Justin's Field Report from RubyKaiji (https://testdouble.com/field) Hire Britni! | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/britnia) 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!

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 Central Memberships (https://dev.to/baweaver/in-favor-of-ruby-central-memberships-15gl) 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! 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).

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/this.week.in.rails) The Rails Changelog Podcast (https://www.railschangelog.com/) Suggestion Form to send ideas to the Rails Foundation (https://app.todohelpers.com/forms/4758b5b0-d6f9-4f41-8041-992cc9b748fb) the Tightly Coupled Book Club (https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/) Amanda Brooke Perino (@AmandaBPerino) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/amandabperino?lang=en) Amanda Perino on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandabrookeperino/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger is the application health monitoring tool built for you, the developer who cares about a quality product and happy customers. Start monitoring today at https://www.honeybadger.io/ (https://www.honeybadger.io/). Honeybadger is free for small teams, and setup takes as little as five minutes. Visit https://www.honeybadger.io/ (https://www.honeybadger.io/). 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).

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.twitch.tv/failure_driven) Selena Small (@selenasmall88) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/selenasmall88) Michael Milewski (@saramic) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/saramic) Selena on Sessionize (https://sessionize.com/selena-small/) Michael on Sessionize (https://sessionize.com/michael-milewski/) 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! 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).

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 learn more about working at Workforce.com, reach out to: Chicago - Stacey McKnight - smcknight@workforce.com London - Phil Fraser - philip@workforce.com Brisbane - Austin Wilshire - austin@tanda.co For non-junior roles, they will consider folks who don’t live in those places but can commute to them occasionally. 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! 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).

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) NormConf Talk: Data Driven Promotions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gzEKQnFSCA) Alex Terrasa’s talk, "Here be dragons" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7DOSoXICMo) ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups (https://review.firstround.com/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups) Rose W (@rose_w) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/rose_w?lang=en) rose (@rose@ruby.social) (https://ruby.social/@rose) Rose's Blog (https://rosew.blog/) 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! Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

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: Episode 431: For the Love of Consulting and the Cloud with Mina Slater (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/431) Ruby on Rails Guides (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/) the Tightly Coupled Book Club (https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/) Ruby Book Club Podcast (http://rubybookclub.com/episodes) Mina Slater (@mina@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@mina) Aji Slater (@aji@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@aji) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger is the application health monitoring tool built for you, the developer who cares about a quality product and happy customers. Start monitoring today at https://www.honeybadger.io/ (https://www.honeybadger.io/). Honeybadger is free for small teams, and setup takes as little as five minutes. Visit https://www.honeybadger.io/ (https://www.honeybadger.io/). Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

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://github.com/whymirror/why-archive/blob/master/shoes/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf) Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.26.0.1 - GitHub (https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-swt) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) schwad (@schwad_rb) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/schwad_rb?lang=en) Hackety Hack - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack) Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template (https://bullettrain.co/) CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails (https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan) Sandi Metz (https://sandimetz.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

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/_colleenleonard?lang=en) * Colleen Leonard on (@ccleonard ) / Mastodon (https://ruby.social/@ccleonard) You can follow Test Double on the following platforms: Read the latest at https://blog.testdouble.com/ (https://blog.testdouble.com/) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble (https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble) Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@testdouble (https://mastodon.world/@testdouble) Sponsored By: Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! 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.

In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market. Show Notes & Links: Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/419) Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) 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. 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.

Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting Blue Ridge Ruby, a two-day, single-track conference featuring ten speakers, plus lightning talks. The conference will be held at the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th. Show Notes: Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/) Sponsor Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/sponsorship/) HYBRD (https://hybrd.co/) IndieRails Podcast (https://www.indierails.com/) Jeremy Smith (@jeremysmithco) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/jeremysmithco) Mark Locklear (@marklocklear@techhub.social) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/marklocklear) Mark's Personal Site (http://locklear.me/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. They dive deeper into their internship program and how an internship is one of the most accessible ways to start bringing juniors into the team. Show Notes & Links: LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/intensive-bootcamp/) 3-Day Jumpstart Bootcamp | LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/jumpstart/) Partners | LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/partners/) Adam Cuppy on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcuppy/) Sarah Proctor on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-proctor-sd/) Chelsea Kaufman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelskaufman/) 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) Get the best of both worlds with Scout APM. Quick and effective performance monitoring designed specifically for Rails developers, it helps you fix issues fast with a developer-friendly UI and tracing logic. Resolve abnormalities like N+1 queries and memory bloat in real-time and prevent customer impact with real-time alerting. Try it now with a free 14-day trial and get started at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) . Then, take your skills to the next level at SPOTcon 2023. Experience the future of performance monitoring alongside Scout APM and other industry leaders. Stay ahead of the game with innovative solutions at SPOTCon 2023 a virtual event on March 2nd, 2023 - Register Now! www.spotcon.io (https://event.spotcon.io/2023/).

Emmanuel Hayford is an independent Rails Consultant and a co-editor of "The Weeks in Rails". He excitedly tells Brittany his favorite upcoming features for Rails 7.1 and his favorite features that shipped with Ruby 3.2. They wrap the episode discussing why community content is so important. Show Notes & Links: This Week in Rails (https://world.hey.com/this.week.in.rails) TryRuby: Learn programming with Ruby (https://try.ruby-lang.org/) An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part I (https://manny.codes/this-week-in-rails-wrapped-an-overview-of-rails-7-1-features-part-i/) Ruby 3.2.0 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/) Rad Ruby (https://manny.codes/radruby) Emmanuel Hayford on Twitter (@siaw23) (https://twitter.com/siaw23) Sponsored By: Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! 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.

Kevin Murphy is a software developer in the Boston area, currently working at Bookbub. After discussing Kevin's first commit into Ruby(!), he and Brittany discuss the long-term benefits and effects of community involvement, including speaking. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kevin's tour promo at the end of the episode! Show Notes & Links: Contributing to Ruby Docs (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/contributing_md.html) Ruby's Coverage Module (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Coverage.html) Kevin Murphy's website (https://kevinjmurphy.com/) Kevin Murphy on Mastodon (https://ruby.social/@kevin_j_m) Kevin's Blog Post Series about having an MBA (https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/situational-leadership/) Kevin's contribution to Ruby (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b3d330c39ebbf27cefc2d83109dad9e0b3b0e94f) 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. Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

After taking a moment to talk about Chris Seaton's impact on the community, Nick tells Brittany about his adventures in TruffleRuby and Hatchbox. They also discuss how Shopify removed all recurring meetings with more than two people in perpetuity to encourage more focus time. Show Notes & Links: Chris Seaton (https://chrisseaton.com/) oracle/truffleruby - GitHub (https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby) postmodern/chruby: Changes the current Ruby - GitHub (https://github.com/postmodern/chruby) Hatchbox.io (https://hatchbox.io/) Roda: Routing Tree Web Toolkit - Jeremy Evans (https://roda.jeremyevans.net/) Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/shopify-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings/) Workplace from Meta (https://www.workplace.com/) 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. 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.

Captured live from Rubyconf 2022 Home Edition on January 11th, 2023, this is a special episode recorded with the Hanami Core Team: Luca Guidi, Tim Riley and Peter Solnica. Co-moderated by Jason Charnes and Brittany Martin. Moderated By: Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.com/) Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/) Panelists: Luca Guidi (https://lucaguidi.com/) Tim Riley (https://timriley.info/) Peter Solnica (https://solnic.codes/) A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf @ Home for making this happen! Show Notes: Hanami (https://hanamirb.org/) dry-rb (https://dry-rb.org/) ROM (https://rom-rb.org/) Roda (https://roda.jeremyevans.net/) decafsucks / decafsucks (https://github.com/decafsucks/decafsucks) Sponsor Hanami (https://hanamirb.org/donate/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

Brittany guested on Ruby for All this week! She joins Julie J to talk about why integrations are important to developers and why integration knowledge can give Juniors a leg up in hiring. They also discuss the differences between APIs and webhooks and review a real world example. Show Notes & Links: Ruby for All (https://www.rubyforall.com/) 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. Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

After reflecting on their 2022 resolutions, Brittany and Jemma talk about their resolutions for 2023. Afterwards, Brittany congratulates Jemma on shipping Object Shapes in Ruby 3.2, asks what is in store for her next and why everyone should upgrade to Ruby 3.2. They wrap up the episode talking about team changes at TextUs. Show Notes & Links: Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/399) Ruby 3.2.0 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/) Shopify/yjit: Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby - GitHub (https://github.com/Shopify/yjit) 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. 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.

The podcast voice is back! Andy Croll is starting 2023 off right by joining Brittany to discuss the process they went through at CoverageBook to hire a junior developer. The timing is perfect because TextUs was also hiring a Junior developer so Brittany cons Andy into sharing a bunch of free advice. Happy New Year, listeners! Show Notes & Links: CoverageBook (https://coveragebook.com/) Episode 384 - The TextUs Junior Trio with Saundra Catalina, Jeff Golden and Luke Mason (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/384) My First Ruby Friend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll (https://andycroll.com/ruby/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) 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. 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).

Adam Pallozzi has been a professional musician, business owner and software developer. Now, he has co-founded SleepHQ, a CPAP support community where users can upload, review and share their therapy data with anyone. Ahead of his (spoiler: successful) launch of the Pro version, Adam sits down with Brittany to discuss his journey to finding Rails, his appreciation of Bullet Train, working on hardware (magic!) and finding community from AU. Show Notes & Links: SleepHQ (https://www.sleephq.com/) Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template (https://bullettrain.co/) Adam Pallozzi (@adampallozzi) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/adampallozzi) Adam Pallozzi on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFjsJxOnr4mL2fXFphJgyQ) 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).

Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo are back on the show as new maintainers of the Faker gem! The trio discuss what they have learned in OSS so far, when to declare bankruptcy and how to market a project for new contributors. Does Hacktoberfest make a difference? Show Notes & Links: Episode 407 | Get to Senior with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo (hexdevs) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/407) Get to Senior | hexdevs (https://academy.hexdevs.com/view/courses/get-to-senior) faker-ruby / faker (https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker) How to Open Source with Richard Schneeman | hexdevs Podcast (https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/how-to-open-source-with-richard-schneeman-schneems/) Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/stefannibrasil) Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/thdaraujo) 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).

Joe Masilotti of both Turbo Native and railsdevs fame, joined Brittany to talk about his upcoming Turbo Native workshop. They discuss why he is conducting the workshop(s), whether he is happy with the current state of Turbo Native (with a cool OSS reveal) and of course, an update on how railsdevs is progressing. Show Notes & Links: Episode 413 - Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/413) Turbo Native Workshop (https://masilotti.com/turbo-native-workshop/) hotwired / turbo-ios (https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios) railsdevs (https://railsdevs.com/) Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti) (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti) 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).

Brittany is joined by the co-organizers of Rubyconf Mini: co-host, Jemma, and Emily Samp. The trio discussed how inclusivity was laced into the event, their futures as conference planners and the adoration of Jemma's Nana. In the back half of the episode, they discuss their expectations and reaction to the announcement of The Rails Foundation. Show Notes & Links: Episode 434 All Things RubyConf Mini (Brittany + Jemma) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/434) The Rails Foundation](https://rubyonrails.org/foundation) The Ruby on Rails Podcast Listener Feedback Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdira0SzpFYUWkfZJzk5yloi6sKUGxcTPLE3V70RDjQOfwppw/viewform) 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.

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).

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 CentralRailsConf 2021RubyConf 2021 | Denver & Virtual November 8-10!Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developersMarty Haught (@mghaught) | TwitterMx. Evan Phoenix (@evanphx) | TwitterRubyConf (@rubyconf) | TwitterRailsConf (@railsconf) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 PlatformEngineering Careers @ Trainual Donut | Slack App DirectoryZach Stradling on LinkedIn Zach Stradling (@zachstradling) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 productSamvera Community · GitHubsamvera/hyrax: Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails EngineWNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | TwitterLea Ann Bradford (@LeaABradford) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode:Veue Live StreamingThe Odin Project: Your Career in Web Development Starts HereParamagicDev (Konnor Rogers) · GitHubSource-to-source compiler - WikipediaWebpacker is the new default in Rails 6 | Saeloun BlogThe Asset Pipeline — Ruby on Rails GuidesAndrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) · TwitterElMassimo/vite_ruby: Vite.js in Ruby - GitHubParamagicDev/snowpacker: A gem to help use Rails with Snowpack - GitHubtestdouble / standard - GithubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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. Links for this episode:Turing School Of Software And DesignTextUsWNB.rb (@wnb_rb) on Twittertayjames (Tay James) · GitHubTay DeHerrera on LinkedInEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode: Daiane Souza on LinkedInEmail Daiane Souza at daiane.souzas@icloud.comDaiane Souza on Github (@daiaventureira)Mobile Engagement Platform - VibesHelix: Native Ruby Extensions Without Feardanielpclark/rutie: “The Tie Between Ruby and Rust.” - GitHubffi/ffi: Ruby FFI - GitHubAmy (@whimsical_amy) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

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. Links for this episode:Careers and Jobs at ShopifyHow to use Hotwire in Rails (Example) | GoRailsSchwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodRandy Steele's LinkedInEmail Randy Steele at steelerx155@gmail.comBrought to you by: Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode:XBESean Devine on Twitter (@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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. Links for this episode:Ruby WeeklyBoring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fastBoring Rails | Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releasesmatt swanson (@_swanson) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

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. Links for this episode:ActiveModel::Errors - Ruby on Rails APIrails / rails Pull Request: Model error as objectlulalala / adequate_errorsRails 6.1's ActiveModel Errors Revamp | All talk but no codeA Place Further than the Universelulalala_it (@lulalala_it) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode:Jemma Issroff's Personal Site Ruby Garbage Collection Deep DiveRuby WeeklyWNB.rb March 2021 Meetup Details and TicketingJemma Issroff (@JemmaIssroff) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Mint Mobile As the first company to sell premium wireless service online-only, Mint Mobile lets you maximize your savings with plans starting at JUST $15 a month. To get your new unlimited wireless plan and get the plan shipped to your door for free, go to https://mintmobile.com/ruby.

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. Links for this episode:Atlantis TechnologyWhy's (Poignant) Guide to RubyCode School: Rails for Zombies | PluralsightJack Collier on Twitter (@imnotquitejack)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode:Castle.io - Castle - Security Automationkarafka/karafka: Framework for Apache KafkaDiffend Running with RubyHow requiring a gem can mess up your already running applicationMicrosoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack techniqueMaciej Mensfeld (@maciejmensfeld) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

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. Links for this episode:Evie Zawada on LinkedInEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

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. Links for this episode:Careers - brightwheelUtah Kate Newman (@TheUtahKate) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Mint Mobile As the first company to sell premium wireless service online-only, Mint Mobile lets you maximize your savings with plans starting at JUST $15 a month. To get your new unlimited wireless plan and get the plan shipped to your door for free, go to https://mintmobile.com/ruby.

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. Links for this episode:Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try today with a free 14-day trial, and experience firsthand why Rails developers worldwide call Scout their best friend. 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 scoutapm.com/rubyonrails. Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month. Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

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. Links for this episode:HTML & JavaScript for Visual LearnersTuring SchoolTextUsGuide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp WayDeep Work by Cal NewportJF's Personal SiteJF-Lalonde (JF Lalonde) · GitHubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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". Links for this episode:FusionAuth: Authentication and Authorization built for devsLetters to a New DeveloperLetters To a New Developer: The BookBoulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | MeetupDan Moore (@mooreds) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. Linode Simplify your infrastructure and cut your cloud bills in half with Linode’s Linux virtual machines.Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of 5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast. Visit https://linode.com/rubyonrails and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.

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. Links for this episode:PlataformatecSimple Form: Forms made easy for RailsRails Core Team Rails 6.1 Release NotesHotwirerafaelfranca (Rafael França) · GitHubRafael França (@rafaelfranca) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. Linode Simplify your infrastructure and cut your cloud bills in half with Linode’s Linux virtual machines.Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of 5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast. Visit https://linode.com/rubyonrails and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Mint Mobile As the first company to sell premium wireless service online-only, Mint Mobile lets you maximize your savings with plans starting at JUST $15 a month. To get your new unlimited wireless plan and get the plan shipped to your door for free, go to https://mintmobile.com/ruby.

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. Links for this episode:Hanamihanami/hanami: The web, with simplicity. - GitHubHanami 2.0 - TrelloHanami ForumTim's Open Source Status UpdatesTim Riley (@timriley) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy. Linode Simplify your infrastructure and cut your cloud bills in half with Linode’s Linux virtual machines.Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of 5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast. Visit https://linode.com/rubyonrails and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.

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. Links for this episode:Hampton Catlin | WikipediaSass: Syntactically Awesome Style SheetsVeue Live StreamingHaml's Main Sitehaml / haml on Githubhaml | A Surprise VisitNatalie Weizenbaum | Github (@nex3)Hampton Catlin (@HamptonMakes) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Speedshop - the Ruby on Rails peformance companyThe Complete Guide to Rails PerformanceThe Rails Performance Workshop5by5 Ruby on Rails Podcast #260: Rails Performance with Nate Berkopecpuma/puma: A Ruby/Rack web server built for concurrency - GitHubSpeedshop Ruby Performance NewsletterNate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Honeybadger | Exception and Uptime Monitoring for Application DevelopersThe Honeybadger Developer BlogWrite For Us | Honeybadger Developer BlogOpening The Ruby Concurrency Toolbox - Honeybadger.ioFounderQuestStarr (@StarrHorne) | TwitterHoneybadger.io (@honeybadgerapp) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Planet Argon: Software Development with Ruby on RailsInternship - Planet ArgonEmail John @ john@planetargon.com Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is a podcast that tells the epic true tales of developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels who are revolutionizing the technology landscape. Listen to Season 6 here. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress SoftwareHacker News | Ryan Bates & Digital OceanDigital Ocean Makes Amends | Stimulus Reflex DonationEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Simple File UploadBackblazeRailsConf 2019 - How to migrate to Active Storage without losing your mind by Colleen SchnettlerColleen Schnettler (@leenyburger) | TwitterSoftware Social PodcastEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is a podcast that tells the epic true tales of developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels who are revolutionizing the technology landscape. Listen to Season 6 here. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 CompanyPhoenix Frameworkphoenixframework/phoenix_live_view - GitHubJesseHerrick (Jesse Herrick) · GitHubJesse's SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 - GitHubfxn/zeitwerk: Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby - GitHubMaple Ong - Software Developer - Shopify | LinkedInmpj (@OngMaple) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Headspace You deserve to feel happier, and Headspace is meditation made simple. That’s headspace.com/rails for a free one month trial with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:DependabotSemmle - Code Analysis Platform for Securing SoftwareGitHub Archive Program - Arctic Code VaultSoftware HeritageWayback Machine - Internet ArchiveGithub Universe 2020Rails 6.1 RC1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements and more!Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 CollegeWealth Management Strategies, Inc.Aaron Kahn - Wealth Management Strategies, Inc. - LinkedInEmail Brittany if you want more financial contentEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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. Links for this episode:Maintainable Podcast Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on RailsEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout APM a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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:TextUsBoulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | MeetupDonutJT (@thetizzo) | TwitterHiding Ruby 2.7 Deprecation Warnings in Rails 6 | Andrew Mason Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 Automationsolnic.codes / Blog / My time with Rails is upHanami | The web, with simplicitydry-rbROM.rbHanami 2.0 - Trellodry-rb/dry-transaction: Business transaction DSL - GitHubData Mapper Pattern - WikipediaPiotr Solnica (@_solnic_) | Twittersolnic (Piotr Solnica) · GitHubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 @ Salesforcefluther.comgetkuby / kuby-core: A convention over configuration approach for deploying Rails apps.Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyerkirillian / shiplane: Convert your development docker-compose yaml filescamertron (Cameron Dutro) · GitHubCameron on Twitter (@camertron)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Scout APM Give Scout a try for free today and Scout will donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy.

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 - WikipediaChaiOne | Powering Industrial DigitializationRuby on Rails Link - A Slack CommunityEBWikiRachel Green on LinkedInEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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:GustoRoR 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly SuttonChipping Away at a Monolith - Gusto Engineeringyak shaving - Urban Dictionaryunused-code / unused | A tool to identify potentially unused code. Tori Huang – MediumTori Huang - Senior Software Engineer - Gusto | LinkedInEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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. Links for this episode:TextUsJobs at TextUsChef: Enabling the Coded Enterprise through Infrastructure dry-rbFull Stack Ruby on Rails Developer – The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust#NoRuKo Videos99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi MetzPast RubiesPast Rubies: Language Trends on GitHub [2015]Past Rubies: Slashdot Interview with DHH [2006]Schwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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 & CampingAbout RailsCasts - RailsCasts | Ryan BatesThe Bakery Model for Building Container Imagestaskrabbit/makara: A Read-Write Proxy for ConnectionsAllTrails CareersAnsible Tower | Ansible.comEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Do you have an app in production that is slower than you like? Is its performance all over the place (sometimes fast, sometimes slow)? Do you know why? With Datadog, you will. You can troubleshoot your app's performance with Datadog's end-to-end tracing and in one click correlate those Ruby traces with related logs and metrics. Use their detailed flame graphs to identify bottlenecks and latency in that app of yours. Start tracking the performance of your apps with a free trial at datadog.com/rubyrailspodcast. If you sign up for a trial and install the agent, Datadog will send you a free t-shirt!

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. Links for this episode:JazzHRIntroduction to FDM 3D printing | HubsMakerbot Thingiverseestruyf / unicorn-busy-serverpuppeteer / puppeteerMichael's Personal SiteI hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. by Jason Cohensprngr (Michael Springer) · GitHubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

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 Herocustomink / lambyAtomic Design | Brad FrostKen Collins (@metaskills) · TwitterCustom Ink Technology (@CustomInkTech) | TwitterKen Collins on DEV.toKen Collins (@metaskills) · GithubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 SurveyMaintainable Podcast Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on RailsEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: FusionAuth FusionAuth provides authentication, authorization, and user management for any app. It’s a complete identity and access management tool that saves your team time and resources. For a limited time, they’re offering Ruby on Rails listeners 25% off using promo code RUBY. Visit fusionauth.io/podcast to learn more.

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. Links for this episode:Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for ZshPlanet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on RailsCD Baby: Digital Music Distribution - Sell & Promote Your MusicDerek SiversMaintainable Podcast Maintainable Rails Email Course - Planet ArgonLegacy Code Rocks Podcast Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Portway This episode is brought to you by Portway, a new markdown notes app developed by BonkeyBong, a small, indie development shop based in Portland, OR. Sign up for a free 30-day trial – no credit card required – by visiting getportway.com/ror. Datadog Do you have an app in production that is slower than you like? Is its performance all over the place (sometimes fast, sometimes slow)? Do you know why? Start tracking the performance of your apps with a free trial at datadog.com/rubyrailspodcast. If you sign up for a trial and install the agent, Datadog will send you a free t-shirt!

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". Links for this episode:The Rails with Jason PodcastAll my best programming tips | Jason's BlogCode with JasonEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer

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 #39282CodeTriage: Get Started Contributing to Open Source ProjectsFortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 - Splash Down - Epic Gameshahmed (Haroon Ahmed) · GitHubharoon (@iamharoon9) | TwitterHaroon's Personal SiteEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN makes sure your ISP can’t see what sites you visit. Instead, your internet connection is rerouted through ExpressVPN’s secure servers. Each ExpressVPN server has an IP Address that’s shared among thousands of users.That means everything you do is anonymized and can’t be traced back to you. Protect your online activity today. Visit https://www.expressvpn.com/ruby and you can get an extra three months FREE on a one-year package.

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 JetBrainsJetBrains RubyMine (@rubymine) | TwitterNatu (@NatuNuarat) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Do you have an app in production that is slower than you like? Is its performance all over the place (sometimes fast, sometimes slow)? Do you know why? With Datadog, you will. You can troubleshoot your app's performance with Datadog's end-to-end tracing and in one click correlate those Ruby traces with related logs and metrics. Use their detailed flame graphs to identify bottlenecks and latency in that app of yours. Start tracking the performance of your apps with a free trial at datadog.com/rubyrailspodcast. If you sign up for a trial and install the agent, Datadog will send you a free t-shirt!

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. Links for this episode:Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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 GemGoogle Pay for Passes Demo SiteThe Ruby Blend PodcastPanelist | Andrew MasonPanelist | Nate HopkinsPanelist | Ron CookeWriting a Ruby Gem Specification | Piotr MurachEvil Martians | Keeping OSS documentation in check with docsify, Lefthook, and friendsCombustion | Rails Engine Testing Helperdkubb / yardstickEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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 ConsultancyErlang Programming Languageanycable / anycablepalkan / test-profRailsconf: Between monoliths and microservicesGetting Started with Engines — Ruby on Rails GuidesVladimir Dementyev (@palkan) on GithubVladimir Dementyev (@palkan_tula) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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 ChefChef InSpecZeitwerk: A new code loader for Ruby Stack Overflow's 2020 Developer Surveyrails new --minimal: A Minimal Rails App Skeleton GeneratorBe a Guest on the 5 by 5 Ruby on Rails PodcastSchwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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:GustoKent BeckTest Desiderata From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI PipelineBuildkiteKelly Sutton (@KellySutton) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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 gemsWorking Towards Bundler 3 | RubyKaigi 2019Ruby APIRuby TogetherColby Swandale (@oceanicpanda) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Raygun is thrilled to launch the next chapter in their ongoing support for Application Performance Monitoring: Ruby support for Raygun APM. Don’t wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end-users. They have end to end monitoring with features like detailed trace transactions, dashboards, user experience monitoring and more. Raygun APM offers a seamless integration with the Heroku platform via buildpack, so you can get all the benefits of APM for your Rails app.  To start your free 14 day trial, go check it out by visiting Raygun.com/apm today. 

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 PodcastThe Ruby Blend PodcastRuby Meetup: Onlinegithub / view_componentAndrew's Personal SiteAndrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 400 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place. Distributed tracing for Ruby applications and APM provide end-to-end visibility into requests wherever they go, across hosts, containers, and service boundaries. With rich dashboards, algorithmic alerts, and collaboration tools, Datadog provides your team with the tools they need to quickly troubleshoot and optimize modern applications. See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Visit datadog.com/rubyrailspodcast to get started.

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 - XBEXBE Announces "Gap Here" Program For Graduating High School SeniorsSean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN protects your privacy and security online but you can also use ExpressVPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries! If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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:SOCiHow to Read and Resolve Common Error Codes in Ruby by Gabbie PirainoBetterErrors/better_errors: Better error page for Rack | GitHubbanister/binding_of_caller: Retrieve the binding of a method's caller in MRI 1.9.2+ | GitHubCode Copy Coffee | Gina's Personal SiteGina Verrastro (@codecopycoffee) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 400 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place. Distributed tracing for Ruby applications and APM provide end-to-end visibility into requests wherever they go, across hosts, containers, and service boundaries. With rich dashboards, algorithmic alerts, and collaboration tools, Datadog provides your team with the tools they need to quickly troubleshoot and optimize modern applications. See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Visit datadog.com/rubyrailspodcast to get started.

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 RescueSpiceworks: Software, Forums & Tools for IT Pros412 Food Rescue (@412FoodRescue) · TwitterRuby on Rails Link - A Slack CommunityEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 CodeMongoDBRailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition FreeFromRagtagEmily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) · TwitterEmily Giurleo's Personal SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 DevelopmentMadison Women in TechRailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition Hilary's Personal SiteHilary Stohs-Krause (@hilarysk) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN protects your privacy and security online but you can also use ExpressVPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries! If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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 | GoogleLighthouse | GoogleMoving towards a faster web | Google See How Images Affect Your Page Speed | imgixTest a website's performance | Web Page TestGoogleChrome / 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) #35926Mark's Personal SiteMark Hutter (@mrkhutter) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 DegreeRefactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig PatternPolly want a message | Sandi Metzseattlerb/flog | GitHubStranglerFigApplication - Martin FowlerShopify Engineering (@ShopifyEng) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 CancellationNick's PR into Rails: WIP: Ensure rails new . --master builds a complete bleeding edge application (not just core gems) Google Pay API | Google DevelopersEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 organisationUnderstanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)Deep Work - Cal Newportpootsbook (Philip Poots) · GitHubPhil's Blog | Crossing the Rubicon Episode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN protects your privacy and security online but you can also use ExpressVPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries! If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.

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 2020Andy Croll's Personal SiteOne Ruby ThingAndy Croll (@andycroll) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 BoutiqueFast Ruby - Ruby on Rails Upgrades by Ombu Labsfastruby / skunk | A StinkScore Calculator for Ruby Code Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 | GitHubThe Hippocratic License 2.0: An Ethical License for Open Source ProjectsOpen Collective - Make your community sustainableKurtis Rainbolt-Greene's Web Logk. rainbolt-greene (@krainboltgreene) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 Developmentgithub / actionview-componentSam Stephenson (@sstephenson) | TwitterJellyswitch - Coworking Space Management App Dave Paola (@dpaola2) | Twitterjellyswitch (@jellyswitchapp) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 MarianiEmail Brian Mariani (brian@mirrorplacement.com)Episode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 wayRailsbridgeSquare: Solutions & Tools to Grow Your BusinessSquare Tutorials | YoutubeRails Camp WestEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBobbilee Hartman (@bobbilee19) | TwitterRails Camp USA (@railscampusa) | TwitterEpisode 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:JetThoughtsJetThoughts · GitHubJTWay by JetThoughtsJetThoughts (@JetThoughts) | TwitterBrittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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:DEVElasticsearchRedisMolly Struve (@mollystruve) | TwitterBrittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 RubyRuby CentralWhat is Processor? Conference Talk penelopezone/rubyfmt: Ruby Autoformatter! - GitHubUpcoming NYCrb Meetup with PenelopePenelope's Personal SitePenelope Phippen (@penelopezone) on TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 2020DEV Community · GitHubHow to Play Chess | Rules + 7 Steps to Begin - Chess.comBODYPUMP – Group Barbell Workouts – Les Mills USNick Schwaderer (@Schwad4HD14) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Mirror Placement 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!

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 | SchwadParisRB Conf 2020The world's best way to learn French - DuolingoBrittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | TwitterNick Schwaderer (@Schwad4HD14) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Mirror Placement 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 AuthorizationBlueJeans: Video Conferencing, Screen Sharing, Video CallsOpen Positions | Careers | CoverMyMedsAlex Miller (@apmiller108) | TwitterAnne Richardson (@lortz) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Mirror Placement 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 LavinderASCII | WikipediaEndianness | WikipediaDeeDee Lavinder (@ddlavinder) | TwitterRaleigh/Durham | Women Who CodeEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Kensington Kensington's Universal Docking Stations give you access to more ports so your slim Chromebook can be as powerful as a Desktop. With plug and play functionality without having to install drivers, you will enjoy dual 4K display with HDMI and displaylink video connectors. Interested? Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program. Visit kensington.com/ruby to learn more!

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. Links for this episode:Def MethodThe Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third EditionThe Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 SlidesPartial Function Application | Joe Leo on Ruby TapasJoe Leo III (@jleo3) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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".

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 BlogRuby WeeklyRuby 3x3Ivy Coding StudyConscious Coding Practice: The Three Concrete Steps SlidesNoah's Book: Mastering Software Technique: Conscious Practice for Writing SoftwareConcurrency in Ruby 3 with GuildsAn explanation of fibers and autofibers from Samuel WilliamsNoah Gibbs (@codefolio) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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".

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:RigUpCareers @ RigUpBindiya on LinkedInAndrew on LinkedInEpisode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought 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 AssemblyLadybug PodcastLadybug Podcast | All About Technical PortfoliosThe Career Advice I Wish I Had · We Learn CodeSandi Metz' Rules For Developers - ThoughtbotAli's BlogAli's NewsletterAli Spittel on Twitter(@ASpittel)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Kensington Kensington's Universal Docking Stations give you access to more ports so your slim Chromebook can be as powerful as a Desktop. With plug and play functionality without having to install drivers, you will enjoy dual 4K display with HDMI and displaylink video connectors. Interested? Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program. Visit kensington.com/ruby to learn more!

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 timeHow to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails by Gannon McGibbonGannon on Github (@gmcgibbon)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 PodcastRubyConf 2019 - Hire Me: I'm Excellent at QuittingBikeshedding with Steph ViccariTN Inspire! "Ramping Up With Roller Derby"Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS CodeRubyConf MY - Rails Against the MachineAmazon Aurora ServerlessNate Berkopec - Speed Shop@SViccari - Steph on Twitter@BrittJMartin - Brittany on TwitterEdited by Thom Obarski (thoughtbot)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 HealthRubyconf 2019Introducing my Schwad Performance Logger gemSchwad/schwad_performance_loggerDROP DSA ASTROLOKEYS KEYCAPS BY SAILORHG & CASSIDOONick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Brittany Martin on Twitter (@brittjmartin)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Kensington Kensington's Universal Docking Stations give you access to more ports so your slim Chromebook can be as powerful as a Desktop. With plug and play functionality without having to install drivers, you will enjoy dual 4K display with HDMI and displaylink video connectors. Interested? Test drive a docking solution today with the Kensington Pro C program. Visit kensington.com/ruby to learn more!

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 gooderWeCamp 2019Extreme ProgrammingU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)Ruby for Good on Github DiaperBasePolly Schandorf on Twitter (@n3rdyteacher)Ruby for Good on Twitter (@rubyforgood)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 SolutionFewer and Faster - Measure, Improve and RepeatSpeaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Messjnunemaker/httparty: Makes http fun again! jnunemaker/flipper: feature flipping for rubyEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

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 websites5by5 - Broadcasts for Geeks, Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs.Fireside - podcast hosting and analytics by podcasters, for podcastersDan Benjamin on Twitter (@danbenjamin)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! Datadog Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place. See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

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 MirrorHistory of Dev BootcampContact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)Brian Mariani on LinkedInEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place. See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails. Print Peppermint Print Peppermint offers beautiful letterpress business cards with free custom design service. With a 100% Money-Back Guarantee, visit www.printpeppermint.com and enter the code: "railabiglineofcode" at checkout for 10% off your order!

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 SecuritySQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL StairwaySQL PASS local and virtual groupsItzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third EditionSQL SaturdaysBrent Ozar's SiteBrent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database AdministrationBrent Ozar | DBA Training PlanRBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Datadog Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place. See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit datadoghq.com/rubyonrails.

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:thoughtbotBlocLaunch AcademyRuby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes — Ruby on Rails GuidesThe Bike Shed PodcastSociety of Grownups | Financial Wellness Courses & ToolsSteph Viccari on Twitter (@sviccari)The Bike Shed on Twitter (@bikeshed)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 - NYCdevise on Githubfilterrific on Github simplecalendar on Githubnewsanctuaryasylum on GithubNew Sanctuary Coalition (@NewSanctuaryNYC) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 SlidesMutation TestingCodosaurus, LLCMutant Gem on GithubMutest on GithubHeckle on GithubDave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

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, AuthorRuby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS CodeInstall Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic BeaverFirst Timers OnlyScott on Twitter (@shanselman)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

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 DevineSean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/ruby.

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 RubiesAbout Google Pay API for PassesHow We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking JavascriptRemote Ruby PodcastNick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)Brittany Martin's SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/rubyonrails.

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 architectureConfreaks TV | EventsCover's BlogCover on Twitter (@cover)Cover on FacebookCareers @ CoverEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/ruby.

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?SorbetSorbet PlaygroundRDL (research project for ruby typing)Hack (typechecker for PHP)MyPy (typechecker for Python)TypeScript (typechecker for JavaScript)Paul's Favorite Juggling LibraryVideo of Paul JugglingPaul Tarjan on Twitter (@paultarjan)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

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:StackSharegraphql-ruby on Githubgraphql-cache on GithubMichael Kelly on Github (@thebadmonkeydev)StackShare on Github (@stackshareio)StackShare on Twitter (@stackshareio)StackShare NewsletterStackShare CareersEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Indeed Prime Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to www.indeedprime.com/ruby.

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:GalvanizeMojoTechPR to Introduce Support for ActionView::ComponentNatasha Umer on Github (@natashau)joelhawksley/actionview-component-demoTrailblazer Gemdry-view Gemkomponent GemIntroducing Project Paper CutsJoel Hawksley's BlogJoel Hawksley on Github (@joelhawksley)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Hoefler&Co A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout! 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 2019ITP 2.1 And Web AnalyticsPast Rubies #1: Ruby Celebrity Free-For-AllPull Panda is joining GitHub!Jumping to the definition of a function or method on GithubErgoDox EZ KeyboardNick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)Brittany Martin's SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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.

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 NationDefinition of MultitenancySpoiled Techie | Scott's Blog MakerlogEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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?ProtobuffersGraphqlRuby GemGraphoid GemShawnee Gao on Twitter (@gaoshawnee)Shawnee Gao on Github (@shawneegao)Square Developer on Twitter (@squaredev)Square Developers Landing SiteSquare Developers Slack ChanneSquare Developers BlogEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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:XBEJSON:API — A specification for building APIs in JSONtailwindcss | A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designscorber | CLI for building hybrid apps with Ember/Vue/Glimmer/Cordova Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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:GoRailsHatchboxRailsconf 2019Remote Ruby PodcastSchedule from Railsconf 2006(Unofficial) DHH Keynote @ RailsConf 2019Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release NotesChris Oliver on Twitter (@excid3)Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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 Inkcustomink/lambyRuby on Jets | The Ruby Serverless FrameworkAWS CloudformationKen Collins on Twitter (@metaskills)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought 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:DevotedHealthBookBubThe Go Programming LanguageFixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective @ RailsConf 2019The Practical Test PyramidTana French's BooksThe 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonRobert Galbraith's BooksSonja Peterson on Twitter (@sonjabpeterson)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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 BlogDiscourseminiracer | Minimal embedded v8Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing DiscourseSam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought 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.

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 RubyMountaineers on Slack6 Pack AppsRubyMotion JumpstartRuby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori OlsonRedPotionThe Sleeping Dragon Has Awoken, And Is Filled With A Terrible ResolveAmir 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 GuruLinux AcademyAWS CertificationCanonical | The company behind UbuntuUbuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of LifeAmazon EC2 Reserved InstancesAWS Auto ScalingJustin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox CloudPostfix - Ubuntu DocumentationWindows RADIUS serverAWS CodeDeployAmazon CloudWatchAWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera Justin Snair on Linked InJustin Snair on UpworkEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodEpisode 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 MacLeodEdouard Chin on Github Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 DeprecationsShopify's Deprecation ToolkitShopify's BootbootEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: Blockstack The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.

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 SpringerHigher PixelsBuzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout)Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Blockstack The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.

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 CFPHow to come up with conference proposal ideasSarah's Siteglobal diversity CFP daySarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Blockstack The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.

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 PromotionJan on Mastodon Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode 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)StealthLita: ChatOpsTelegramBotJosé 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 consultingSpeedshop BlogThe Complete Guide to Rails PerformanceTuneRails Performance Workshop after Railsconf (Minneapolis)Speedshop Ruby Performance NewsletterNate 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 GithubTom Enebo on GithubdplKonstantin Haase on GithubDeployment on TravisCIMartin Fowler's Thoughts on Continuous IntegrationHiro 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.rbSoutheast Ruby Remote Ruby Remote Ruby with Brittany as GuestGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)Jason Charnes on Twitter (@jmcharnes)PodiaEpisode 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:thoughtbotthoughtbot's Opensource Librariesthoughtbot on TwitterStoryboarding at thoughtbot Episode Music: "Happy Rock" by bensound Brought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course).

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 RegistryProject OlympusShine Registry on Instagraminfo@shineregistry.com for interest in joining Shine RegistryEmily Wazlak on TwitterEpisode Music: "Keep Dancing" by Podington BearBrought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course). Ruby on Ice (Use the code 5by5 before January 31st to receive a 10% discount on your ticket).

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 CFPRuby CentralBoulder Ruby GroupRailsconf WebsiteConfreaks TV | RailsConfMarty Haught on TwitterRailsconf on TwitterEpisode 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 LambdaAWS Blog: Announcing Ruby build support for AWS SAM CLIThe official AWS SDK for RubyOfficial repository for the aws-record gem, an abstraction for Amazon DynamoDB.AWS Record Generator RailsAlex Wood on TwitterJingyi Chen on TwitterIntroduction by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Carefree Melody" by Twin MusicomBandwidth 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 FrameworkBoltOpsBoltOps Nuts and Bolts BlogAWS LambdaServerless FrameworkZappaChaliceApexTung's LinkedInTung's TwitterTung's YouTube ChannelSupport JetsEpisode Music: Jetstar Rollercoaster by Roger PlexicoBrought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course).

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:RSpecMinitestTest Driven Development: By Example by Kent BeckXUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard MeszarosWorking Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. FeathersRefactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin FowlerJason Swett's BlogRubyConf IndiaThe Ruby Testing Podcast | Brittany GuestsEpisode 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:honestbeehonestbee's GraphQL AppSlide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with RailsGraphQL Batch by ShopifyAnkita 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:FinagleHow Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity FairLinkerdLinkerd on GithubLinkerd on Twitter (@linkerd)BuoyantBrittany 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 5.2Multi-Database Support in Rails 6@eileencodes on TwitterEileen's BlogRuby on IceEpisode 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 WeeklyCooperpressRuby InsideBeginning RubyPeter Cooper on TwitterJulia Evan's BlogEpisode 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 GithubTrix on GithubTrix HomepageJavan on Twitter (@javan)Javan on GithubEpisode 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 TeamThe Pittsburgh Cultural Trust SiteQueue-itSidekiqJohnny: World's Cutest PuggleDanielle Greaves on TwitterEpisode 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 BlogThe Yak Shave PodcastNick's Rails ContributionCode TriageArt of Product PodcastEpisode Music: "Bust This Bust That" by Professor KliqAdmin

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. Rollbar With Rollbar’s error monitoring, you get the full stack trace, context, and user data to help you find and fix impactful errors super fast. Go to rollbar.com/ruby, signup, and get the Bootstrap Plan free.

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. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code RAILS30).

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. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code RAILS30).

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. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code RAILS30).

This week, Britt takes Kyle's spot and interviews Ben Orenstein about what he's been up to lately. Knight takes @r00k. Checkmate. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby).

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. Brought to you by: Rollbar: Sign up and get the Bootstrap Plan for free!

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. Brought to you by: Rollbar: Sign up and get the Bootstrap Plan for free! Linode (Visit the link to get a $20 Linode credit on a new account).

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. Brought to you by: Rollbar: Sign up and get the Bootstrap Plan for free! Linode (Visit the link to get a $20 Linode credit on a new account).

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. Brought to you by: Rollbar: Sign up and get the Bootstrap Plan for free!

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! Brought to you by: Rollbar: Sign up and get the Bootstrap Plan for free!

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. Brought to you by: Linode (Visit the link to get a $20 Linode credit on a new account).

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. Brought to you by: Casper (Visit Casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS for $50 towards your new mattress).

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. Brought to you by: Mobile Dev + Test Conference (Use the code 'rormobile' to receive $200 off your conference registration fee. That’s up to $600 off if you register by Feb 24. Learn more at https://well.tc/rormobiledev.

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. Brought to you by: Braintree (To learn more visit Braintreepayments.com/railspodcast) Hired (Visit Hired.com/rubyonrailspodcast to learn more and to DOUBLE the normal $1,000 hiring bonus.That’s right: earn $2,000 for finding your next chapter on Hired).

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! Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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. Brought to you by: DevBootcamp.com/ruby (Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers). Braintree (To learn more visit Braintreepayments.com/railspodcast)

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. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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. Brought to you by: DevBootcamp.com/ruby (Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers). Braintree (To learn more visit Braintreepayments.com/railspodcast)

Recorded in the morning, with spunk. Dev Bootcamp: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Fewer frogs, more programming, and an interview with Jay McGavren, author of "Head First Ruby". The waiting is the hardest part. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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! Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers.

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. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. Rollbar: Get the context, insights and control you need to find and fix bugs faster. With a lot less noise. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers.

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. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers. Rollbar: Get the context, insights and control you need to find and and fix bugs faster. With a lot less noise. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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. devbootcamp.com/ruby: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers.

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. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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 EmberLittle Professor Replicagithub.com/barelyknown/little-professorgithub.com/github/scientistgithub.com/technoweenie/serialized_attributesBraintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Kyle and Sean talk about Sean's experience this week moving an application out of development and into production. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website.

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! DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Casper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS. Terms and Conditions Apply. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial.

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. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Kyle teaches Sean some lessons about implementing and scaling webhook APIs. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. 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. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

Sean and Kyle talk about the economics of open source software. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. 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. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. 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. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Dotblock is the place to get scalable Solid State Drive based cloud VPS hosting with root access in under a minute. To learn more about Dotblock just visit dotblock.com and use the code RUPBYONRAILS to get your first trial month for just $1. 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. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial.

Sean and Kyle debrief on the successful (phew!) API-First training seminar, and talk about the upcoming GitHub Universe conference. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Casper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS. Terms and Conditions Apply. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit.

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. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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_masterDigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

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 SheetsDaily Fantasy Sports (FanDuel) NBA Optimization ModelBraintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit.

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_petsTweet with stats from casper.com about cosleeping with petshttp://apifirst.trainingCasper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS. Terms and Conditions Apply. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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 RubyPhoenix FrameworkFancyHands APISean becomes core team member of jsonapi-resourcesapifirst.training - Sean's API-first development seminar - online Sep 16-18thlynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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 ;) DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit.

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 - 2015-07-06rails/actioncableJSON API 1.0 talk at Boston EmberConfigure exception class whitelist to be reraised by operations processors. Pull Request #290 · cerebris/jsonapi-resourcesDigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial.

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:@kdaigleAtom 1.0RSpec 3.3 has been released!github.com/zipmark/rspec_api_documentationatom: Add "Copy Permalink" based on SHAice_cube: Parse time zones when creating schedules from ICAL; fix DST test bugjsonapi-resources: Add support for creating resources with polymorphic has one and has many.Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

Chris Ball joins Sean Devine to talk about his great website, fromrailstoember.com. Links for this episode:fromrailstoember.com@cball_echobind.comlynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit.

Toran Billups provides Sean Devine with some Ember counseling. Links for this episode:toranbillups.comtoranb/ember-cli-simple-storeEMBERCONF 2015 - TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT BY EXAMPLE@toranbstackoverflow: 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:@genericsteeleRailsConf 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:@genericsteelerailsconf.comlynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

Dan Gebhardt joins Sean Devine to talk about json-api, jsonapi-resources, orbit.js, and Ember Data. Links for this episode:@dgebjson-api/json-apijsonapi.orgcerebris/jsonapi-resourcesorbitjs/orbit.js@larrygebhardtlynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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@darrellsilverthinkful.comDeVry UniversityCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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.comPracticing RailsEmberconf 2015 KeynoteToran Billups Live Coding TDD at Emberconf 2015@justinweissCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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 DevineThinkful: Build your first Ruby on Rails application in 2 months. For 10% off, go to: www.thinkful.com/railspodcast. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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 8Toggle: Quick and efficient solutions to technical problems using a global network of professionals carefully selected for each project. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Thinkful: Build your first Ruby on Rails application in 2 months. For 10% off, go to: www.thinkful.com/railspodcast.

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:@rigelstpierreepicurrence.comBandsintownrobots.thoughtbot.comcerebris/jsonapi-resourcesclearbitToggle: Quick and efficient solutions to technical problems using a global network of professionals carefully selected for each project. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Thinkful: Build your first Ruby on Rails application in 2 months. For 10% off, go to: www.thinkful.com/railspodcast.

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:@bcardarellagithub.com/bcardarellaLessons Learned - Three years of running a software consultancyemberjs.comjsonapi.orgcerebris/jsonapi-resourcesCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Thinkful: Build your first Ruby on Rails application in 2 months. For 10% off, go to: www.thinkful.com/railspodcast.

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. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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:@trekEmber GuidesSkymall on GrouponCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Use offer code 5BY5 for 50,000 free emails per month for six months.

Steve Robinson from rubynow.com joins Sean to talk about recruiting, recruiters, and solar panel junk mail. Links for this episode:rubynow.comRepresenting Programmers as if They Were Celebrities - nighttime.com@sdrphdCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. 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:RefactorCoprubocop on GitHubRefactorCop Rails Rumble Entry DetailsMandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Use offer code 5BY5 for 50,000 free emails per month for six months. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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.coPack Pal's Rails Rumble entryflorasaramago.comCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

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@caikeCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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.comNinefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Use offer code 5BY5 for 50,000 free emails per month for six months.

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 EntriesNinefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

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. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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 Hackathoncallforpractice.comTwilioRails Rumble 2014Ninefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Use offer code 5BY5 for 50,000 free emails per month for six months. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

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@reidcarlbergheroku.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 Pagecallerkey.comtwilio.comimranraja.comKujuNinefold: An easier way to deploy & host your Rails apps. SmartThings: Control your home using your smartphone…from anywhere. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple.

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:@joshowensMeteorrailsrumble.comSquarespace - 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website. 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. SOLARO is your online study guide, covering English, Math, and Science from 3rd to 12th grade and available 24/7. Pricing is $29.95/per month or $199.95/ per year, but 5by5 listeners get a special deal. Enter GEM at checkout to get 50% off for the entire life of your SOLARO subscription.

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 entrygithub.com/kellishaver@kellishaverkellishaver.comNitch PodcastStickyAlbumsrailsrumble.comCodeship - 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.

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@Alternate1985Earmarkd - Sean's 2012 EntryKayla's Tour - Sean's 2013 EntryCodeship - 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website.

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:@jameschevaliercitystrides.comk-d tree Wikipedia entrykdtree Ruby gem GitHub repositoryPostGIS - Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQLRunKeeperCityStrides map of Jim and Sean's runMailChimp.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. 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.

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. 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website. 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.

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.comjustinweiss.com weekly newslettergithub.com/justinweiss@justinweissA Guide to Choosing the Best Gems for Your Ruby ProjectSearch and Filter Rails Models Without Bloating Your Controllerseanwes podcastbeeminder.comDon’t Fave This Post: How to REALLY Launch in 2014rubyflow.comRaygun - 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.

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@MadisonRubyAdorable.ioSquarespace - 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 SEANSENTME at checkout. A better web starts with your website. 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 TwitterCooper PressRuby Weekly Newsletterpeterc.orgCodeship - 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 Twittergithub.com/flomotlikcodeship.ioKendo on WikipediaOne Reason Cross-Cultural Small Talk Is So Tricky - Coconut vs PeachCodeship - 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 TwitterRed Sweater SoftwareCore Intuition podcastgithub.com/danielpunkassMarsEdit - Desktop blog editing for Mac OS XCodeship - 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 TwitterMidroll - Podcast advertising networkTurning This Car Around podcastYour Daily Lex podcastCodeship - 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:@genericsteeleDub Side of the MoonPitchforkWhat Do I Test?Fuck you Jobu! I do it myself!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.

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 TwitterCoworkBuffaloNickel City RubyBasecampAqueousBand.netRUSHPhishBourbon (and friends)Heroku PostgresCodeship - 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.

Sean Devine learns about Twilio from Greg Baugues. Links for this episode:@greggyb on Twittertwilio.comgithub.com/twilio/twilio-rubygithub.com/ZestFinance/zestphoneCodeship - 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.orgQboxCodeship - 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 TwitterOren's blog - re-factor.comBlog post => Slow Tests are the Symptom Not the CauseDatomicelasticsearchDesk.comCodeship - 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 Twitterpenman on GitHubrosspenman.comOn Computing Education - The Windows Movie Maker ProblemGoogle Map of ScotlandScottish independence Wikipedia pageSquarespace - 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 1Codeship - 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. 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

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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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, 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). 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 18, 2007. Part II of a discussion with and about women in development. See also: Devchix 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 17, 2006. Newly knighted Rails blogger Josh Susser muses on database relationships and reliable apps. 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 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. 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 12, 2006. The RubyCentral co-founder talks about his new book, Ruby for 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 June 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam 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 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam 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 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam 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 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam. 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 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam 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 12, 2007. From Ruby en Rails, Amsterdam 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 7, 2008. Garrett Dimon talks about his new company Next Update and their bug tracker Sifter. 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 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 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 3, 2008. Ryan Singer of 37signals talks about Rails, design, and “touching the magic wand.” From RailsConf at the Heroku booth. 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 2, 2008. Several star developers from Powerset. 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 2, 2008. Garrett Dimon discusses his upcoming issue tracker. 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 2, 2008. The newest phenoms of the Rails community, Phusion their Passenger module for Apache. 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 2, 2008. New Relic, a performance tracking application. 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 2, 2008. Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preston-Werner talk about GitHub. 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 2, 2008. Apricado, a site for musicians. 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 2, 2008. Adam Keys interviews Geoffrey Grosenbach. 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 May 21, 2007. Alex demos his Javascript class library. 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 May 21, 2007. The Godfather of RejectConf rewrites ri. 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 May 21, 2007. Joannou from NYC demos a carousel Javascript effect. 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 May 21, 2007. Dr. Nic demos newgem. 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 May 21, 2007. Jamie Macey demos code coverage hack. 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 May 21, 2007. Luke Melia of NYC.rb hacks Mime::Type to do a separate mobile layout. 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 May 21, 2007. Sebastian Delmont of NYC.rb on his embedded_action 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 May 21, 2007. Tom Preston-Werner and Dave Fayram demo Fuzed, an Erlang and Rails server. 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 May 20, 2008. The founders of Biznik talk about business networking, their BizJam Conference, and 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 May 17, 2006. Take a tour of RubyForge with sysadmin Tom Copeland! 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 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 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 May 9, 2009. Interviews with Yehuda Katz, Ed Allan, Joe Fiorini, and Blue Box Hosting. Also Mentioned Yehuda Katz Joe Fiorini Blue Box Hosting 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 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 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 May 7, 2006. Obie Fernandez of ThoughtWorks gives a peek into how Ruby is making inroads into the enterprise. 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 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 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 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 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 May 2, 2007. Edited episode now live 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 May 2, 2007. Hampton Catlin, creator of the HAML templating library. 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 May 2, 2007. Jake Howerton on the NYC subway. 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 May 2, 2007. Paul Dix on natural language processing 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 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 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 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 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 April 25, 2006. Planet Argonites Robby Russell and Jeremy Voorhis team up on Rails deployment, refactoring, databases, and National Album Recording Month. 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 April 22, 2008. Nathan Sobo of Pivotal Labs talks about Treetop, a cutting-edge parser written in 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 April 20, 2009. Ruby veteran Rich Kilmer talks about MacRuby. 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 April 20, 2009. Aaron Quint on the Sinatra and gems that embed webapps. 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 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. 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 April 14, 2009. The developers of Intuit’s community site talk about building Rails applications. Also Mentioned Intuit Community Site Brian Morearty Thomas Hanley 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 April 6, 2007. The creator of Twitter talks about developing the popular messaging site. Also mentioned: Jack Dorsey Alex Payne 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 March 29, 2007. The serial entrepreneur talks about his latest startup. Also mentioned: Stikkit Michael Buffington Blosxom blog engine Heaven on Earth 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 March 28, 2008. Derek Haynes and Andre Lewis on consulting and their side projects Scout and Placeshout. 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 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 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 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. 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 March 17, 2008. Ian Mcfarland of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco talks about their internal project management app, pair programming, and company culture. 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 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 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 March 14, 2006. A bootleg of the Why the Lucky Stiff concert at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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.” 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 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) 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 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. 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 February 28, 2009. Ryan Bates of RailsCasts on his day job, bowling, and the Rails Activism team. 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 February 24, 2006. The Ruby pioneer on rake task automation and good code design. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 January 30, 2009. Giles Bowkett, Ruby Inside Top Presenter of 2008, talks about success, startups, goals, and music. 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 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 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 January 26, 2006. Sean Chittenden talks about his Rails re-design work with Penny-Arcade.com, server scalability, and the open source business model. 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 January 23, 2007. Tim Lucas, co-developer of Web Connections and godfather of the Sydney Ruby Brigade, talks about developing with REST and JSON. 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 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. 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 January 16, 2009. Jeremy McAnally talks about his open source projects, documentation, and productivity. 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 January 10, 2006. Scott Raymond, developer of Blinksale, Icon Buffet, and other wonderful Rails apps. 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 January 6, 2007. Obie Fernandez interviews the members of the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade in Denmark. workonrails.com: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs. bloc.io: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.