The Ruby on Rails Podcast

RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript. Links for this episode: RubyMotion: Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby Mountaineers on Slack 6 Pack Ap...

Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications. Links for this episode: A Cloud Guru Linux Academy AWS Certification Canonical | T...

Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs. Links for this episode: Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Edouard Chin on Github Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations Shopify's Deprecation Toolki...

Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small. Links for this episode: Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Higher Pixels Buzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout) Episode Music: "Fun...

Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist. Links for this episode: Abstractions CFP How to come up with conference proposal ideas Sarah's Site global div...

Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers. Links for this episode: Depfu with 5 by 5 Promotion Jan on Mastodon Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episode Music: "Funkorama" by...

Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place. Links for this episode: Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14) Stealth Lita: ChatOps TelegramBot José Albornoz on Twitter (eljojo) Episode Mus...

Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community. Links for this episode: Speedshop - Ruby on Rails performance consulting Speedshop Blog The Complete Guide to Rails Performance Tune Rails Performance Workshop...

Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI. Links for this episode: Charles Nutter on Github Tom Enebo on Github dpl Konstantin Haase on Github Deployment on TravisCI Martin Fowler's Thoughts on Continuous Integration Hiro Asari on Twitter (@hi...

Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. After discussing their mutual love of Ruby, Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community. Links for this episode: run.rb Southeast Ruby Remote Ruby Remote Ruby with Brittany as Guest Generalized Anxiety Dis...

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

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

On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions. Links for this episode: Railsconf 2019 CFP Ruby Central Boulder Ruby Group Railsconf Website Confreaks TV | RailsConf Marty Haught on Twitter Railsconf on Twitter...

Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime. Links for this episode: AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby build support for AWS SAM CLI The official AWS SDK for Ruby Official repository for...

Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community. Links for this episode: Jets Ruby Serverless Framework BoltOps BoltOps Nuts and Bolts Blog AWS Lambda Serverless Framework Zappa Chalice Apex Tung's LinkedIn Tung's Twitter Tung's...

Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint. Links for this episode: RSpec Minitest Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros Working Effecti...

Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee where she has been working on transitioning honestbee's monolith to smaller services. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application. Links for this episode: honestbee honestbee's GraphQL App Slide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with Rails GraphQL Batch by S...

William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices. Links for this episode: Finagle How Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair Linkerd Linkerd on Github Linkerd on Twitter (@linkerd) Buoyant Brittany on Twit...

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...

Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly. Links for this episode: Ruby Weekly Cooperpress Ruby Inside Beginning Ruby Peter Cooper on Twitter Julia Evan's Blog Episode Music: Karaoke Mouse - "Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side's Alternate Take)"

Action Text is a new framework coming to Rails 6 to make it easier to create, edit, and display rich text content within an app. Brittany invited Javan Makhmali, programmer at Basecamp, on to the show to get the scoop. Links for this episode: Action Text on Github Trix on Github Trix Homepage Javan on Twitter (@javan) Javan on Github Episode Music: "Oxalis Triangularis" by Known Ocean

Brittany put her tickets aside to invite her web team at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Patrick FitzGerald (Director of eCommerce) and Danielle Greaves (Frontend Developer) on to the show. They discuss their origin stories, their team dynamics and their favorite aspects of Rails. Links for this episode: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Web Team The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Site Queue-it Sidekiq John...

Brittany's official debut as the host of the podcast! Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core. Links for this episode: Nick Schwaderer's Blog The Yak Shave Podcast Nick's Rails Contribution Code Triage Art of Product Podcast Epis...

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.