
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Co-hosted by Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.
Latest episodes

Jul 6, 2022 • 43min
Episode 425: The Railsconf At Home 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
Moderated By:
Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Panelists:
Aaron Francis, Framework Friends
Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard
Brian Mariani, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Drew Bragg, Coding Coders
Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby
Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes & Links:
Framework Friends
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Chats in the Cupboard
Remote Ruby
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Jun 29, 2022 • 29min
Episode 424: Women On Rails and VirtualCoffee.io with Aurelie Verrot
Enchanté. Aurelie Verrot is a developer originally from France who now lives in California. She is Software Engineer at Zendesk, working in the i18n team. She answers all of Brittany's questions about working at Zendesk, translating the beloved Women On Rails newsletter and VirtualCoffee.io.
Show Notes & Links:
General Assembly
Zendesk
Women On Rails Newsletter
VirtualCoffee.io
Hacktoberfest
Aurelie Verrot (@LiliVerrot) / Twitter
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Jun 22, 2022 • 32min
Episode 423: Featuring Some of the Nicest People in Rubydom (Brittany + Nick)
Brittany and Nick took a foray into handheld console gaming before celebrating Nick's new role at Shopify on the Ruby/Rails Infra team. They chatted about their favorite parts of Railsconf including Nick's Ruby Archaeology talk and Shopify's Railsconf Afterparty Twitter Space. Also, Past Rubies is back!
Show Notes & Links:
Unofficial RailsConf Afterparty today on Twitter Spaces | Shopify
Euruko 2022 CFP
RubyKaigi 2022 CFP
Ruby Weekly Issue 606 | Panel Feature
Past Rubies Subscription Signup
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Jun 15, 2022 • 31min
Episode 422: Object Shapes and Open Source (Brittany + Jemma)
Brittany had questions about how to contribute to Ruby but luckily, Jemma was here to explain the process and explain her most recent proposal: Object shapes for Ruby. Object shapes are a technique for representing properties of an object. The two then debate reaching sustainable open source software.
Show Notes & Links:
Feature #18776: Object Shapes
Stripe Press — Working in Public
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
Open Source is Not About You by Richard Hickey
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Jun 8, 2022 • 31min
Episode 421: I've Been Here For Awhile with David Hill
David Hill is a Staff Software Engineer with CareRev. He just gave his first ever conference presentation at RailsConf 2022, titled “React-ing to Hotwire”. He is thinking about starting a podcast (yes!) so he asks Brittany her thoughts on co-hosts and topics.
Show Notes & Links:
React-ing to Hotwire | Railsconf 2022
The Rails SaaS Conference
Framework Friends
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Railsconf Guide
David Hill on Twitter (@DavidEsmale)
Sponsored By:
AppSignal
Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast.
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

Jun 1, 2022 • 44min
Episode 420: The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel
Live from Portland, OR is the Ruby Podcast Panel recording from Railsconf 2022! The panelists discuss why they are loyal to podcasting, the state of the Ruby and Rails communities, opening doors for juniors into our industry and themes they noted from the conference.
Moderated By:
Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Panelists:
Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby
Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby
Chris Oliver, Remote Ruby
Andrew Culver, Framework Friends
Colleen Schnettler, Software Social Podcast
Robby Russell, Maintainable Podcast
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

May 25, 2022 • 25min
Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian)
Brian is back with his insights on how the Rails hiring market is fairing, the differences between JS and Rails recruiting, whether avoiding whiteboarding is a good sign and how companies can effectively evaluate potential developers.
Show Notes & Links:
Mirror Placement
poteto / hiring-without-whiteboards
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

May 18, 2022 • 31min
Episode 418: Flash Forward to Railsconf Day 2 with Andrea Fomera
Andrea Fomera is a Senior Software Developer at Podia who finds enjoyment in updating dependencies and crafting high quality, robust and maintainable code. She and Brittany flash forward to Railsconf Day 2 to discuss Andrea's talk, goals for the conference and an epic quest to find the best donut in Portland.
Show Notes & Links:
Andrea's Personal Site
Andrea Fomera (@afomera) · Twitter
Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum
Podia
WNB.rb
Sponsored By:
AppSignal
Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards for Sidekiq, Active Job, and other integrations. As a listener of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, you get a 10% discount and a box of sweet treats. Start your 30-day free trial at https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast.
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.

May 11, 2022 • 29min
Episode 417: Treading Water & Panel Planning (Brittany + Jemma)
Fresh off of treading water in a sweatsuit for a swim test, Brittany called up Jemma to do a live brainstorm for the Railsconf 2022 Podcast Panel. After discussing Jemma's team trip to London for Shopify, they go over the panel participants, moderation strategies and potential topics.
Show Notes & Links:
Railsconf 2022 COVID Policy
Ruby Podcast @ Railsconf 2022 on Day 1
Remote Ruby
Framework Friends
Maintainable
Software Social
WNB.rb
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution.
Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

May 4, 2022 • 35min
Episode 416: Tackling Technical Texts with Steve Lynch
Steve Lynch is an Engineering Manager at Root Insurance, working with a full-stack team on a Rails and React stack. Brittany invited Steve on to the show to discuss Engineering Management and his Rubyconf talk, "I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts" so she could tackle some texts on her bookshelf.
Show Notes & Links:
Voulez-Vous with Zach and Steve
I Read It But Don't Get It, or How to Tackle Technical Texts by Steve Lynch | Rubyconf 2021
Ruby Under a Microscope
Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
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Mirror Placement
Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here.
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