The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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 College Wealth Management Strategies, Inc. Aaron Kahn - Wealth Management Strategies, In...

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 Rails Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod Episode Introduction a...

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: TextUs Boulder Ruby Group (Boulder, CO) | Meetup Donut JT (@thetizzo) | Twitter Hiding Ruby 2.7 Depre...

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 Automation solnic.codes / Blog / My time with Rails is up Hanami | The web, with simplicity dry-rb ROM.rb Hanami 2.0 -...

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 @ Salesforce fluther.com getkuby / kuby-core: A convention over configuration approach for deploying Rails apps. Ruby Rogues: Rails Needs Active Deployme...

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 - Wikipedia ChaiOne | Powering Industrial Digitializ...

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: Gusto RoR 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton Chipping Away at a Monolith - Gusto Engineering yak shaving - Urban Dict...

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: TextUs Jobs at TextUs Chef: Enabling the Coded Enterprise through Infrastructure dry-rb Full Stack Ruby...

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 & Camping About RailsCasts - RailsCasts | Ryan Bates The B...

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: JazzHR Introduction to FDM 3D printing | Hubs Makerbot Thingiverse estruyf / unicorn-busy-server puppeteer / puppeteer Michael's Personal Site I hate...

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 H...

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 Survey Maintainable Podcast Planet Argon: Design & Development with Ruby on Rails Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springe...

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 Zsh Planet Argon: Design &...

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 Podcast All my best programming tips | Jason's Blog Code with Jason Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod...

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 #39282 CodeTriage: Get Started Contributing to Open Source Projects Fortnite Chapt...

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 JetBrains JetBrains RubyMine (@rubymine) | Twitte...

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

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 Gem Google Pay for Passes Demo Site The Ruby Blend Podcast Panelist | Andrew Mason Panelist | Nat...

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 Consultancy Erlang Programming Language anycable / anycable palkan / test-prof Ra...

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 Chef Chef InSpec Zeitwerk: A new code loader for Ruby Stack Overflow's 2020 Developer Survey rail...

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: Gusto Kent Beck Test Desiderata From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline Buildkite Kelly S...

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 gems Working Towards Bundler 3 | RubyKaigi 2019 Ruby API Ruby...

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 Podcast The Ruby Blend Pod...

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 - XBE XBE Announces "Gap Here" Program For Graduating High School Seniors Sean Devine...

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: SOCi How to Read and Resolve Common Error Codes in Ruby by Gabbie Piraino BetterErrors/better_errors: Better error page for Rack | GitHub banister/binding_of_caller: Retrieve the b...