Embracing Rails for AI Development and Community Engagement

Rhiannon Payne and Justin Bowen are one of the very few couples working together in the Ruby and Rails ecosystem. Justin is a long-time Rails developer, consultant, and AI and computer vision specialist. Rhiannon runs Sea Foam Media and is the Marketing Director for Ruby Central. Together they are building Active Agents, an AI framework for Rails. We chat about their professional backgrounds (Justin's in software development, Rhiannon's in marketing), how they collaborate as a couple, the birth of Active Agents, and AI in the Ruby/Rails landscape. Oh, and we may have a cameo from a few cats!

Rhiannon
Twitter
Bluesky
The Remote Work Era Book

Justin
Twitter
Bluesky

Active Agents
Website
activeagent gem on GitHub (latest release: v0.4.0)
Documentation (new)
Discord Invite

Sea Foam Media
Website
Twitter