
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

Dec 8, 2021 • 31min
Episode 395: The Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany & Nick)
It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts.
Brittany's Picks
Code & Supply Coding Pennants
Jumpstart Pro
Chill Pill V4
LL Bean Tech Tote
Monolisa Font
Scribd
Nick's Picks
SKÅDIS (IKEA)
Wired Magazine Subscription
Ergodox EZ
Tailwind UI Components
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.

Dec 1, 2021 • 30min
Episode 394: Rubyconf 2021 Recap: Live + Virtual (Brittany & Jemma)
Brittany and Jemma record right after Rubyconf 2021 so they could share their experiences and favorite talks both in-person and virtual. Oh, also, this is now a running podcast.
Show Notes & Links:
Rubyconf 2021
Introducing: MemoWise
Talks Discussed:
Achieving fast method metaprogramming: lessons from MemoWise by Jemma Issroff, Jacob Evelyn
Minimize Your Circus Factor: Building Resilient Teams by Mercedes Bernard
Managing Up: Strategies for Leveling Up by Mina Slater
On Being an Early Career Dev in Your 30s by Ben Greenbug
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.

Nov 24, 2021 • 51min
Episode 393: The Rubyconf 2021 Live Podcast Panel
Recorded live from Rubyconf 2021 in Denver, CO with an audience! Panelists from The Ruby on Rails Podcast, Code with Jason and Remote Ruby gathered to chat about why they were excited to attend Rubyconf, favorite episodes and to field listener questions.
Moderated By:
Jemma Issroff, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Panelists:
Andrew Mason, Remote Ruby
Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby
Jason Swett, Code with Jason
Emily Giurleo, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Nick Schwaderer, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes & Links:
Rubyconf 2021
WNB.rb
Ruby5: A Twice-Weekly 5 Minute Ruby News Podcast
Ruby Weekly
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.

Nov 17, 2021 • 29min
Episode 392: I'm Actually Totally Happy (Brittany & Brian)
No holiday break on the recruiting front! Brittany and Brian catch up on the Rails recruiting trends. They discuss how companies need to up the ante now that so many are remote first, how interviews should be structured and whether it is worth getting in the door, if it is not for the role you want.
Show Notes & Links:
Mirror Placement
Rubyconf 2021 Job Fair
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.

Nov 10, 2021 • 39min
Episode 391: Announcing Mocktail with Justin Searls
Justin Searls helped start Test Double—a software agency of experienced developers who work with clients to build great software together, as a team. He gave Brittany the scoop on Mocktail, an opinionated alternative to minitest's mocks, rr, mocha, and rspec-mocks. As a bonus: he offers his insights and advice on being a confident speaker.
Show Notes & Links:
testdouble/mocktail
Test Double | An Agency Improving the World's Software
Mockito framework site
Jim Weirich's Tweet
searls/gimme
jimweirich/flexmock
Please don't mock me - Justin Searls - JSConf US 2018
VCR - GitHub
How to Make a Gem of a Gem
Justin Searls (@searls) · 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.

Nov 3, 2021 • 32min
Episode 390: Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker
Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of OmbuLabs, the Ruby on Rails development shop behind FastRuby.io. He comes back to the podcast to talk about code quality: what it is, what it is perceived to be and what its like to maintain a few Ruby code quality gems, including ruby-critic and skunk.
Show Notes & Links:
OmbuLabs :: The Lean Software Boutique
FastRuby.io
309: Upgrading Rails & Skunk for Scoring with Ernesto Tagwerker
rails_stats
rubycritic
skunk
metric_fu
Eight Dimensions of Quality
The Code Quality Challenge - Tuple.app
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.

Oct 27, 2021 • 26min
Episode 389: Dev Ops Lead with Jason Taylor
Jason Taylor returns! Together, Brittany and Jason discuss his recent promotion to Dev Ops Lead at TextUs, how fluent in the stack you need to be to make operational decisions and the Rubyconf sessions they are excited to attend.
Show Notes & Links:
OpenTelemetry
Rubyconf Program
Careers at TextUs
JT (@thetizzo) | 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.

Oct 20, 2021 • 36min
Episode 388: Ruby is Still a Diamond with Emma Hyde
After Emma's blog post, "Ruby is Still a Diamond", took the software engineering world by storm, Brittany and Jemma invited Emma on to the show (her podcast debut!) to ruminate why she continues to be excited about Ruby, why you should invest the effort into upgrading to Ruby 3.0, the differences between parallelism & concurrency and an introduction to Ractors.
Show Notes & Links:
Ruby is Still a Diamond by Emma Hyde
Dockwa
Retention Science
Emma Hyde on Medium
Emma Hyde (@emmahyde) | 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.

Oct 13, 2021 • 35min
Episode 387: From Architect to VP of Engineering with Bruno Miranda
Bruno Miranda is responsible for leading Doximity’s engineering teams across the areas of data, mobile, infrastructure, and web engineering. Bruno architected the earliest versions of the company’s core software platform and lead efforts to build out a highly resilient technology stack. Brian and Brittany inquire what the responsibilities of a VP of Engineering are, the proper way to onboard a new engineer and how to approach building distributed engineering teams. Rails can scale.
Show Notes & Links:
Doximity, Inc. - GitHub
Work @ Doximity
Bruno's Personal Site
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.

Oct 6, 2021 • 30min
Episode 386: Marginally Wiser (Product Management) with Danny Issroff
It's a family affair! Danny Issroff, Jemma's older brother, visited the show to discuss all things product management. Jemma and Brittany quizzed him about how developers can understand product, advice for aspiring PMs and why developers are a precious resource.
Show Notes & Links:
[Special Discount for Ruby Garbage Collection in Under Two Hours](jemma.dev/book/therubyonrailspodcast)
Contact Jemma to talk to Danny
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.
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