
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

Feb 16, 2022 • 39min
Episode 405: Dev Rel and Second Career Developers with Ben Greenberg
Ben Greenberg is a second career developer who previously spent a decade in the fields of adult education, community organizing, and non-profit management. He works as a lead developer relations engineer at New Relic by day and is building hirethePIVOT, a reverse job board for career changers, at night.
Show Notes & Links:
On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s by Ben Greenberg
hirethePIVOT
Hummus on Rails
Ben Greenberg (@RabbiGreenberg) · Twitter
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Feb 9, 2022 • 31min
Episode 404: 404: Developer Not Found (Brittany + Jemma)
After a campy true crime start, Brittany and Jemma recap Brittany's first full marathon, Brittany's promotion to Engineering Manager and Jemma brings up the exciting news of YJIT porting to Rust. They wrap up by discussing the tracks for the Railsconf 2022 CFP. Start applying!
Show Notes & Links:
Feature #18481: Porting YJIT to Rust (request for feedback)
Railsconf 2022 CFP
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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.

Feb 2, 2022 • 24min
Episode 403: Unlocking More Plasma Supply with Damian Galarza
Damian Galarza is the VP of Engineering at Buoy Software. Buoy is building software for good — connected intelligence that unlocks more plasma supply. Brittany, Brian and Damian discuss scaling engineering culture and reflect on technical decisions in a post Rails 7 world.
Show Notes & Links:
Buoy Software
Damian Galarza (@dgalarza) / Twitter
Buoy Software on Github
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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.

Jan 26, 2022 • 25min
Episode 402: UX Hot Takes with Pancakes (Nikki LeServe)
What is an Engineering Lead without her UX Designer? Nikki "Pancakes" LeServe, Senior UX Designer at Textus, joined Brittany to discuss her UX origin story and to respond to Brittany's controversial UX theories. Should design by committee die? Should Bootstrap ever be used? Should some stuff be designed to be difficult to use? Tune in.
Show Notes & Links:
How to Get to Senior | HexDevs | 10% Discount
How to avoid ‘design by committee’ and why you should at all costs
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Atlantis Technology
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they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.

Jan 19, 2022 • 29min
Episode 401: From Frontend to Fullstack with Shameel Abdullah
Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions.
Show Notes & Links:
Sin City Ruby
Get Your Conference Proposal Accepted - Schneems
Gusto/apollo-federation-ruby - GitHub
meeoh - GitHub
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Hook Relay
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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.

Jan 12, 2022 • 26min
Episode 400: Nothing But Gold Stars All The Way with Collin Jilbert
Joining Brittany to celebrate episode 400(!), Collin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails Developer at GoRails. They discuss why he committed to Rails so early in his career, his various ambitious projects (Ruby Radar, fleur de ruby), his love of the community and what his new role will entail.
Show Notes & Links:
fleur de ruby (@fleur_de_ruby)
Ruby Radar
GoRails
Jumpstart Pro
pay-rails/pay: Payments for Ruby on Rails apps - GitHub
Collin (@collin_jilbert)
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Jan 5, 2022 • 31min
Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma
Will Ruby 3.1 drop on Christmas (spoiler: it did!)? Jemma and Brittany catch up with the changes from this past year, talk about some resolutions they are planning for 2022 and whether the pursuit for mediocrity should be one of them. Oh yes, they also touch on the release of Rails 7.
Show Notes & Links:
Ruby 3.1.0 Released
WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) · Twitter
In Praise of Mediocrity
Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision
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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.

Dec 29, 2021 • 32min
Episode 398: Audiophile: The Meta Episode with Paul Bahr
It's a The Ruby on Rails Podcast x Remote Ruby collab! Brittany is joined with Jason Charnes and Andrew Mason so they can interview the editor of their shows, Paul Bahr, on how he got into podcast editing and the tools you need to get started. Find out the answers to fascinating questions such as: what is everyone's filler word? Is there really room for more podcasts? Are Ruby podcasts a great palate cleanser after editing true crime? A fun episode to record, we hope you enjoy listening.
Show Notes & Links:
Paul Bahr on LinkedIn
Peachtree Sound
Descript
How to Start a Podcast: Step by Step
Best Day/Time to Publish Your Podcast
Paul’s Favorite $100 Mics:
Rode NT-USB-Mini USB Microphone with Detachable Magnetic Stand
Blue Yeti USB Mic
Paul’s Favorite Online Recording Platforms:
Riverside
Zencastr
Zoom
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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.

Dec 22, 2021 • 25min
Episode 397: Game Development in Ruby (Super Bombinhas) with Victor David Santos
Victor David Santos is a fullstack Engineer at Tremendous and the creator of the Ruby platformer, Super Bombinhas. Victor joined Brittany to share insights on game development in Ruby, how to publish a game to Steam and how generous the gaming community can be.
Show Notes & Links:
Tremendous
The Ocra Gem
The Gosu Library
The MiniGL Library
MiniGL Tutorials
Super Bombinhas on Steam
victords / super-bombinhas
Victor's Itch Page
Victor on Github
Victor David Santos (@VictorDS92) / 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.

Dec 15, 2021 • 26min
Episode 396: Advice My Uncle Told Me with Zachery Hostens
Zachery Hostens is a Senior Rails Engineer at TextUs. He is a self taught techie to his core, who tries to have his hands in all the cookie jars. He and Brittany discuss what it was like working as Wells Fargo as a Rails engineer, how he landed at TextUs and some strategies on finding the hidden Rails developers out there.
Show Notes & Links:
Zachery Hostens on Github
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.
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