The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Vince Eberle is a Full Stack Developer at 412 Food Rescue. Over the last decade, he has worked on app development on-and-off using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS. He and Brittany discuss coming back to Rails and how powerful Rails can make a developer in a non-profit. Links for this episode: 412 Food Rescue Spiceworks: Software, Forums & Tools for IT Pros 412 Food Rescue (@412FoodRescue) · Twitter...

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. Li...

Hilary Stohs-Krause is a co-owner and full-stack software developer at Ten Forward Consulting. She joined Brittany to discuss her upcoming RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition session. Together, they explored the root causes of fear and anxiety and how we can start to deliberately rewrite our instincts. Links for this episode: Ten Forward Consulting: Custom Software Development Madison Women in Tech Rai...

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

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

Nick Schwaderer popped on to the show to talk about his recent job search (Ruby & Rails are thriving!) and his recent commit to Rails core. Brittany discussed how she is taking the opportunity to work on her Googlepay gem and the recent conference cancellations. Links for this episode: Railsconf Cancellation Nick's PR into Rails: WIP: Ensure rails new . --master builds a complete bleeding edge...

Philip Poots is the VP of Engineering at ClubCollect, a FinTech startup in Amsterdam. He is a Pareto product programmer, remote advocate and a self proclaimed dilettante. His recent talk, "Rediscovering Ruby" was a big point of discusssion between Brittany and him. Links for this episode: ClubCollect - have a financially healthy organisation Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule) Deep...

Andy Croll is CTO at CoverageBook & AnswerThePublic, Rubyist, conference organizer of Brighton Ruby, author, speaker, bootstrapper & twin dad. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Andy had to pivot this year's conference into a new experience. He and Brittany discuss the details and the potentially lasting effects on the community. Links for this episode: Brighton Ruby Conference 2020 Andy Croll'...

Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company dedicated to building lean code and reducing tech debt. He and Brittany enthusiastically discuss blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto's future plans for his code scoring library, Skunk. Links for this episode: Ombu Labs - The Lean Software Boutique Fast Ruby - Ruby on Rails Upgrades by Ombu Labs fastr...

Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. Brittany and he discuss the concept of important opinions and the steps he took to take over maintainership of the VCR gem. Links for this episode: vcr/vcr: Record your test suite's HTTP interactions | GitHub The...

Dave Paola was cofounder and CTO at Bloc. He is now the cofounder of Jellyswitch, unleashing the power of the distributed workforce. Dave and Brittany converse about choosing frameworks, bootcamps and frontend frameworks. Links for this episode: Bloc | Online Programs in Web Development github / actionview-component Sam Stephenson (@sstephenson) | Twitter Jellyswitch - Coworking Space Management A...

Back by popular demand, Brian is back! Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm, came back to share his wisdom on financial negotiations, what it is like to recruit from both the client and developer side and that one overlooked tip to get the job. Links for this episode: Mirror Placement 5by5 RoR 287: Recruitment on Rails with Brian Mariani Email Brian M...

Bobbilee Hartman is a Developer Advocate at Square. She is more widely known as the founder of Rails Camp West, the long-standing unplugged retreat for web developers in the United States. She pitches Brittany on attending this year and answers all of her questions about the getaway. Links for this episode: Learn HTML & CSS - a book that teaches you in a nicer way Railsbridge Square: Solutions...

Alexey Chernov is a Ruby on Rails consultant at JetThoughts. Over the years, he has built MVPs and consulted to improve legacy code, scale up the remote team and achieve an effective development process. He and Brittany dive deep into approaching legacy RoR projects. Links for this episode: JetThoughts JetThoughts · GitHub JTWay by JetThoughts JetThoughts (@JetThoughts) | Twitter Brittany Martin (...

Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at DEV, the company that runs the blogging website dev.to. She and Brittany unpack what site reliability means, Molly's fondness of Elasticsearch and how Molly creates all of her witty and educational content. Links for this episode: DEV Elasticsearch Redis Molly Struve (@molly_struve) | Twitter Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | Twitter Episode Intr...

Penelope Phippen makes Rubyfmt, and was previously a lead maintainer of the RSpec testing framework. She’s been writing Ruby for just about a decade, and still remembers 1.8.6. She and Brittany discuss Rspec, Ruby Central and her thoughts on the Ruby community. Links for this episode: RSpec: Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby Ruby Central What is Processor? Conference Talk penelopezone/rubyfmt:...

Brittany and Nick continue to celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 2 of the episode, they discuss Brittany's topic for ParisRB, setting up and contributing to dev.to and imposter syndrome training with chess and BodyPUMP. Happy New Year! Links for this episode: ParisRB Conf 2020 DEV Community · GitHub How to Play Chess | Rules + 7 Steps to Begin - Chess.com BODYPUMP – Group Barbell Workou...

Brittany and Nick celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 1 of the episode, they discuss New Years resolutions, switching back from Windows to MacOS and using Rubyfmt with Atom. A special thanks to you, the listeners, for helping make 300 episodes happen. Links for this episode: Using Rubyfmt with Atom | Schwad ParisRB Conf 2020 The world's best way to learn French - Duolingo Brittany Martin...

It's three's company! CoverMyMeds' engineers, Anne Richardson and Alex Miller, guested on the podcast to discuss CMM's remote developer culture, approach to microservices and commitment to the Ruby community. Links for this episode: CoverMyMeds, The Leader In Electronic Prior Authorization BlueJeans: Video Conferencing, Screen Sharing, Video Calls Open Positions | Careers | CoverMyMeds Alex Miller...

DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus. Links for this episode: RubyConf 2019 - How to Become an Encoding Champion by Deedee Lavinder ASCII | Wikipedia Endianness | Wikipedia DeeDee Lavi...

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 Method The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition The Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 Slides Partial Function...

Brittany is live from Rubyconf 2019! Noah Gibbs is a Ruby Fellow for AppFolio, working on the core Ruby language and related tooling. After over 30 years of communicating with computers, Noah now believes that communicating with humans may not be a passing fad, and he's trying it out. Links for this episode: Noah Gibb's Blog Ruby Weekly Ruby 3x3 Ivy Coding Study Conscious Coding Practice: The Thre...

Bindiya Mansharamani, Director of Engineering, & Andrew Derenge, Principal Engineer at RigUp joined Brittany to discuss RigUp's GraphQL design choices, engineering culture and the career path to achieve senior and director level. Links for this episode: RigUp Careers @ RigUp Bindiya on LinkedIn Andrew on LinkedIn Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod Episode Introduction and Outro by Mich...

Ali Spittel loves teaching people to code. She blogs a lot about code and her life as a developer. Brittany and Ali discuss the lessons behind Ali's blog post, "The Career Advice I Wish I Had". Links for this episode: General Assembly Ladybug Podcast Ladybug Podcast | All About Technical Portfolios The Career Advice I Wish I Had · We Learn Code Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers - Thoughtbot Ali's B...

Gannon McGibbon is a Software Developer at Shopify. He primarily works on improving codebase health of Shopify's monolithic Rails app. Gannon regularly contributes to open source with commits on Rails, Ruby, and Rubocop. He joined Brittany to discuss his latest blog post, "How to Write Fast Ruby on Rails code". Links for this episode: Rails Contributors | #59 Gannon McGibbon - All time How to Writ...