

The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Elise Shaffer
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.
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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
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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
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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.

Apr 27, 2022 • 29min
Episode 415: Respect & Retros with Andrew Strovers
Andrew Strovers is a Senior Software Engineer out of Omaha, Nebraska. Being that he has serious opinions on trust and communication in the workplace, he was the perfect guest to discuss retros: how to reward vulnerability, adjust to the remote components and incorporate fun.
Show Notes & Links:
UpDog
Nathan Knisley on LinkedIn
Andrew Strovers on LinkedIn
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.
mailtrap.io
mailtrap.io is an online tool for safe email testing in dev and staging environments. Set up in less than 5 minutes to assess the deliverability of an email and share results with team members, check if there are any mistakes with the HTML and CSS validation. Send Emails and monitor their performance with the new Sending Solution. Explore these and many other functions of Mailtrap. Get started for free at mailtrap.io.

Apr 20, 2022 • 44min
Episode 414: The RoR Podcast x Coders Coders Crossover Event with Drew Bragg
Brittany interviews Drew Bragg, the Staff Engineer at Within3 and the host of the new Code and the Coding Coders who Code it podcast about his origin, his love of the Ruby community and their experience at Sin City Ruby. The pair then switch host seats and Drew interviews Brittany about her love of burpees, what she is working on, her blockers and what she currently finds interesting.
Show Notes & Links:
With3
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Podcast
Remote Ruby | Its Always Sinny In Las Vegas aka Sin City Ruby
TextUs Careers
Framework Friends Podcast
Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) · Twitter
Brittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) / 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.
Atlantis Technology
Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career,
they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.

Apr 13, 2022 • 29min
Episode 413: Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti
Joe Masilotti is an independent developer who specializes in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and automated testing. He helps clients port their Rails apps to iOS with Turbo Native. Brittany and Brian talk with Joe about building railsdevs in public, the challenges he has faced and the technical decisions he is proud of. They wrap up by discussing Joe's upcoming "Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native" workshop he has been inspired to do.
Show Notes & Links:
railsdevs - The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers
railsdevs on Github
Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti) · Twitter
Hotwire dev newsletter
Joe's tweet about Porting your Rails app to iOS with Turbo Native workshop
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.

Apr 6, 2022 • 33min
Episode 412: Plant Killers (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
Emily is guesting as co-host this week with Jemma and Brittany! The trio celebrate Emily's new role at Shopify and discuss taking breaks between roles. Emily and Brittany just wrapped up reviewing CFPs for Railsconf so Jemma asks them about the patterns they observed. They wrap up by talking about their (not) green thumbs and home desk setups.
Show Notes & Links:
Sorbet · A static type checker for Ruby
Jemma's Tweet to Ruby Central
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.

Mar 30, 2022 • 32min
Episode 411: Sin City Reunion (Brittany + Nick)
Brittany and Nick gush about their long awaited reunion at Sin City Ruby in Las Vegas. They talk about talk prep, hype music, and even costume changes. After discussing how to pull off a company onsite and remote whiteboarding, they wrap by sharing their thoughts on "No Railsconf".
Show Notes & Links:
Sin City Ruby
Miro
Figjam
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
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.

Mar 23, 2022 • 31min
Episode 410: Ruby Loyalty and Engineering Management with Ufuk Kayserilioglu
Ufuk is the Engineering Manager of the Ruby Infrastructure team (Jemma's team!) at Shopify. After transitioning his career from physics to software development, Ufuk has had the fortune of working with lots of interesting technologies at various levels of the stack. He, Jemma and Brittany chat about management philosophies, why he remains excited about Ruby and what is the ideal role for Shopify in the larger Ruby ecosystem.
Show Notes & Links:
Shopify / maintenance_tasks
Shopify / yjit
Sorbet
Ufuk Kayserilioglu (@paracycle) / Twitter
Sponsored By:
Hook Relay
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Atlantis Technology
Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career,
they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.

Mar 16, 2022 • 34min
Episode 409: Ruby on Trails with Jennifer Konikowski
Jennifer Konikowski had been doing mostly Rails since 2012, though is currently taking a detour and working in Go at Splice. She and Brittany talk about what lead her to Pittsburgh, her fitness journey and tips.
Show Notes & Links:
Splice
Jaybird
PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells
The Peloton App
Strava
TrainingPeaks | Reclaim Your Race Day
Strong - Workout Tracker & Gym Log
Workout of the Day | Concept2 Rowing Machines
Jennifer Konikowski (@jenkoni) / Twitter
Jennifer’s Website
Sponsored By:
Hook Relay
Hook Relay is a service that makes sending and receiving webhooks reliable, secure, and transparent—automatically. Sign up now, and you can start receiving webhooks from integrations like GitHub, etc., even before you have an app to receive them.
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.

Mar 9, 2022 • 35min
Episode 408: Functionally Fit with Mike Coutermarsh
Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.
Show Notes & Links:
202: Behind the Scenes at Product Hunt with Mike Coutermarsh
PlanetScale - The Database for Developers
GitHub - vitessio/vitess
CrossFit Games: The Open
Rogue Stock Bot - Real Time Restock Alerts - YouTube
Brianna Lamb - Functional Bodybuilding
TrueCoach: #1 Personal Trainer Software
WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool
Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) · 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.


