The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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 Design TextUs WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) on Twitter tayjames (Tay James) · GitHub Tay DeHerrera on LinkedIn Episode Introduct...

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 LinkedIn Email Daiane Souza...

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 Shopify How to use Hotwire in Rails (Example) | GoRails Schwad4HD14 (@Schwad4HD14) | Twitter Episode Introduct...

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: XBE Sean Devine on Twitter (@barelyknown) Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Brought to you by: Expre...

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 Weekly Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fast Boring Rails | Feature Flags: The st...

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 API rails / rails Pull Request: Model...

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 us...

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 Technology Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby Code School: Rails for Zombies | Pluralsight Jack Colli...

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 Automation karafka/karaf...

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 LinkedIn Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Epi...

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 - brightwheel Utah Kate Newman (@TheUtahKate) | Twitter Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer Episode Music: "Funkora...

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 Springer Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod...

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 Learners Turing School TextUs Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way Deep Work by Cal Newport JF's Person...

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 devs Letters to a New Developer Letters To a New Developer: The Book Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder...

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: Plataformatec Simple Form: Forms made easy for Rails Rails Core Team Rails 6.1 Release Notes Hotwire rafaelfranca (Rafael...

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: Hanami hanami/hanami: The web, with simplicity. - GitHub Hanami 2.0 - Trello Hanami Forum...

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 | Wikipedia Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets Veue Live Streaming Haml's Main Site haml / haml on Github haml | A Surprise Visit Natalie Weizenbaum | Github (...

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 company The Complete Guide to Rails Performance The Rails Performance Workshop 5by5 Ruby on Ra...

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 Develope...

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 Rails Internship - Planet Argon Email John @ john@planetargon.com Episode...

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 Software Hacker News | Ryan Bates & Digital Ocean Digital Ocean Makes Amends | Stimulus Reflex Donation...

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 Upload Backblaze RailsConf 2019 - How to migrate to Active Storage without losing your mind by Colleen Schnettler Colleen Schnett...

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 Company Phoenix Framework phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view - GitHub JesseHerrick (Je...

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 - GitHub fxn/zeitwerk: Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby - GitHub Maple Ong - Software...

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: Dependabot Semmle - Code Analysis Platform for Securing Software GitHub Archive...