The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Brittany is on the road in NYC! Her company is a new client with thoughtbot, a creative studio that helps clients build applications. Brittany took a coffee break to chat with Sarah Dawson, their newest apprentice about thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, the thin line between junior developer and established developer and her initial reaction to Rails. Links for this episode:thoughtbotthoughtbot's Opensource Librariesthoughtbot on TwitterStoryboarding at thoughtbot Episode Music: "Happy Rock" by bensound Brought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course).

Emily is the CEO of Shine Registry, a startup built on Rails that’s working on reshaping tradition to increase gender equity in entrepreneurship. Brittany has been consulting on the project so she invited Emily on to discuss prototyping an application quickly in RoR, being a non-technical founder and how our listeners can get involved with Shine Registry. Links for this episode:Shine RegistryProject OlympusShine Registry on Instagraminfo@shineregistry.com for interest in joining Shine RegistryEmily Wazlak on TwitterEpisode Music: "Keep Dancing" by Podington BearBrought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course). Ruby on Ice (Use the code 5by5 before January 31st to receive a 10% discount on your ticket).

On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions. Links for this episode:Railsconf 2019 CFPRuby CentralBoulder Ruby GroupRailsconf WebsiteConfreaks TV | RailsConfMarty Haught on TwitterRailsconf on TwitterEpisode Music: "Positive and Fun" by Scott Holmes

Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime. Links for this episode:AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby Support for AWS LambdaAWS Blog: Announcing Ruby build support for AWS SAM CLIThe official AWS SDK for RubyOfficial repository for the aws-record gem, an abstraction for Amazon DynamoDB.AWS Record Generator RailsAlex Wood on TwitterJingyi Chen on TwitterIntroduction by Michael SpringerEpisode Music: "Carefree Melody" by Twin MusicomBandwidth sponsored by: CacheFly

Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community. Links for this episode:Jets Ruby Serverless FrameworkBoltOpsBoltOps Nuts and Bolts BlogAWS LambdaServerless FrameworkZappaChaliceApexTung's LinkedInTung's TwitterTung's YouTube ChannelSupport JetsEpisode Music: Jetstar Rollercoaster by Roger PlexicoBrought to you by: One Month (For a limited time visit onemonth.com/rubyonrails to get 10% off any coding course).

Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint. Links for this episode:RSpecMinitestTest Driven Development: By Example by Kent BeckXUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard MeszarosWorking Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. FeathersRefactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin FowlerJason Swett's BlogRubyConf IndiaThe Ruby Testing Podcast | Brittany GuestsEpisode Music: "Cinematic" by Purple Planet Music

Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee where she has been working on transitioning honestbee's monolith to smaller services. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application. Links for this episode:honestbeehonestbee's GraphQL AppSlide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with RailsGraphQL Batch by ShopifyAnkita on Twitter (@gazubi)Episode Music: "Please Wake Up" by Meydan

William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices. Links for this episode:FinagleHow Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity FairLinkerdLinkerd on GithubLinkerd on Twitter (@linkerd)BuoyantBrittany on Twitter (@brittjmartin)William on Twitter (@wm)Episode Music: "Robot Cowboy" by Scanglobe

On August 15th, GitHub celebrated a major milestone: their main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! Upgrading Rails on an application as large and as trafficked as GitHub is no small task. Eileen M. Uchitelle, better known as @eileencodes, came on to the show to discuss the upgrade and supporting multiple databases in Rails 6. Links for this episode:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2Multi-Database Support in Rails 6@eileencodes on TwitterEileen's BlogRuby on IceEpisode Music: "Creative Minds" by BENSOUND

Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly. Links for this episode:Ruby WeeklyCooperpressRuby InsideBeginning RubyPeter Cooper on TwitterJulia Evan's BlogEpisode Music: Karaoke Mouse - "Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side's Alternate Take)"