The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Nick's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Nick tells Brittany about the ambitious project he and his Hack Day team took on at Shopify. Brittany updates Nick on her trip to Denver to meet the team at TextUs and how her junior team members are doing a month in. They wrap up by reflecting on how much hiring has changed since they discussed it in depth last spring. Show Notes & Links: kddnewton/regular_expression Viking Code School: Become a Web Developer Sponsored By: 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. 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.

Jemma's debut as a co-host on The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Brittany and Jemma discuss WNB.rb's upcoming Fireside Chats about Technical Speaking and how Jemma is approaching the event as a moderator. Brittany shares her experience onboarding three (!) new Junior developers at TextUs and they both discuss how the approach writing and submitting talks. Lastly, they talk about setting engineering cultures within teams. Show Notes & Links: Register for Fireside Chats about Technical Speaking Sponsored By: 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. 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.

Brittany and Brian are joined with Frank Lamantia, CTO for Bold Penguin. His background is in software engineering; he likes to call himself a recovering Java developer. He runs product management, software engineering, cloud & site-reliability engineering, information security, and internal IT. The trio discuss the recent Bold Penguin feature on the Stack Overflow Podcast and Bold Penguin's hiring practices. Show Notes & Links: Bold Penguin Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers? Frank Lamantia | LinkedIn Contact Brian Mariani at Mirror Placement Sponsored By: 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. 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.

Jared White is passionate about rolling back some of the complexity of the modern web and finding simpler paths forward using easy-to-understand tools and, of course, Ruby. He and Brittany discuss the origins and goals of Bridgetown, a Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era. Show Notes & Links: Bridgetown Bridgetown on Github Jared White (@jaredcwhite) | Twitter Jared's Personal Site Sponsored By: 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. 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.

It’s no secret that Brittany admires WNB.rb, a community and monthly Ruby meetup for women and non-binary folks. She welcomed the three organizers: Jemma Issroff, Emily Giurleo and Sylwia Vargas to discuss the origins and future initiatives of WNB.rb. Show Notes & Links: WNB.rb on Eventbrite WNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | Twitter Jemma Issroff (@JemmaIssroff) | Twitter Emily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) | Twitter Sylwia Vargas (@SylwiaVargas) | Twitter Sponsored By: 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.

It is the debut of The Ruby on Rails Podcast! Brittany and Mirror Placement have partnered on the next iteration of the podcast, with Brian Mariani joining as a regular co-host. They discuss the exciting changes coming and then dive into the current world of Ruby recruiting and hiring. Show Notes & Links: Mirror Placement Sponsored By: 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.Sponsored By:Scout APM

Marty Haught and Evan Phoenix, Directors of Ruby Central, guested on the show to explain Ruby Central's place in our community, how Railsconf 2021 came together and what we can expect from the upcoming Rubyconf 2021 as a dual virtual and in-person conference. Links for this episode:Ruby CentralRailsConf 2021RubyConf 2021 | Denver & Virtual November 8-10!Stack Overflow Podcast | Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developersMarty Haught (@mghaught) | TwitterMx. Evan Phoenix (@evanphx) | TwitterRubyConf (@rubyconf) | TwitterRailsConf (@railsconf) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Zach Stradling was the first Software Engineer on the original Trainual team. He joins Brittany to discuss how he grew an engineering team from 2 to 15 (spoiler: they are hiring!), how to define engineering culture and their use of service objects. Links for this episode:Trainual | All-In-One Training & Knowledge PlatformEngineering Careers @ Trainual Donut | Slack App DirectoryZach Stradling on LinkedIn Zach Stradling (@zachstradling) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod

Lea Ann Bradford is a senior software developer for Notch8, an agency that leverages the Samvera open source community. Lea Ann tells her story of learning to code after being a stay at home mom and she educates Brittany on all things Samvera. Links for this episode:Notch8 - Ruby on Rails Web Application Developers Samvera - Open-source digital repository software productSamvera Community · GitHubsamvera/hyrax: Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails EngineWNB.rb (@wnb_rb) | TwitterLea Ann Bradford (@LeaABradford) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: Raygun Save time, money, and sanity by visiting Raygun.com/ruby and join thousands of software teams who use Raygun every day to ship better quality code, faster. It takes just minutes to set up and starts from as little as $4 per month.

Konnor Rogers is a software developer for Veue Inc. He is also the creator of Snowpacker, and he has a deep love for open source. He breaks down Frontend bundlers for Brittany and the up and coming vite_ruby. Links for this episode:Veue Live StreamingThe Odin Project: Your Career in Web Development Starts HereParamagicDev (Konnor Rogers) · GitHubSource-to-source compiler - WikipediaWebpacker is the new default in Rails 6 | Saeloun BlogThe Asset Pipeline — Ruby on Rails GuidesAndrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) · TwitterElMassimo/vite_ruby: Vite.js in Ruby - GitHubParamagicDev/snowpacker: A gem to help use Rails with Snowpack - GitHubtestdouble / standard - GithubEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is an app that reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your ISP can’t see the sites you visit. If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.