Remote Ruby Rails Business with Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch
Nov 21, 2025
Brendan Buckingham, co-host of the Rails Business Podcast, and Ryan Frisch, CTO at LocalBull, dive into their Ruby on Rails journeys. They explore how personal frustrations can spark innovative product ideas and discuss managing Stripe APIs for seamless transactions. The duo also shares insights on upgrading Rails and leveraging modern JavaScript tools like Turbo Streams for better user experiences. They emphasize the importance of community events and how their podcast originated from a passion for combining Rails with business.
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From Marketing To Rails Developer
- Ryan described how he learned Rails by fixing bugs in an outsourced app and gradually became the in-house developer.
- He shifted from marketing to full-time development after gaining confidence and replacing outsourced work.
Rails Encourages Product-First Thinking
- Rails frames developers as product builders rather than just coders, emphasizing shipping and product thinking.
- That philosophy, embodied by Basecamp and DHH, shaped Rails' tooling and developer culture.
Sync Payments With Webhooks And Background Jobs
- Use webhooks to keep payment data in sync and minimize direct API-dependent logic in request flows.
- Store incoming webhook payloads quickly, return 200, then fetch the canonical API object in a background job to reconcile state.
