The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub, joins Sean and Kyle to talk about how to choose the right systems for the job. The conversation gets interesting right quick! DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Casper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS. Terms and Conditions Apply. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial.

Sean and Kyle are stressed! In this episode, they talk through how they got there and try to come up with an inner peace game plan. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Kyle teaches Sean some lessons about implementing and scaling webhook APIs. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

Sean and Kyle talk about the economics of open source software. Squarespace: A better web starts with your website. AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Kyle returns from GitHub Universe and tells Sean all about the new GitHub Integrations Directory, a service that he's been working on this year that just shipped. Plus, a teeny sneak peak at the upcoming money-in-open-source-software conversation. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast.

Mike Coutermarsh from Product Hunt joins Sean Devine as guest cohost to give a behind-the-scenes look at Product Hunt. Topics include Product Hunt's new features, its technical architecture and transition to an API-first development style, and their successful experience with Heroku. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Dotblock is the place to get scalable Solid State Drive based cloud VPS hosting with root access in under a minute. To learn more about Dotblock just visit dotblock.com and use the code RUPBYONRAILS to get your first trial month for just $1. AppSignal is a monitoring tool for Ruby applications. Unlike other tools they provide both performance and exception / error monitoring for your web actions and background jobs. You can start a free trial and try AppSignal for 30 days without entering a credit card. Pricing starts at 19 dollars for monthly plans. Use code 5by5 for a 10% discount or the first year! They'll also send a pack of stroopwafels to every new customers that starts pushing data and lets us know that they've come through the podcast. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial.

Sean and Kyle debrief on the successful (phew!) API-First training seminar, and talk about the upcoming GitHub Universe conference. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Casper: Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/rubyonrails and use the code RUBYONRAILS. Terms and Conditions Apply. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit.

Sean and Kyle talk about differences between enterprise applications and consumer applications, and treating the human UI as the exception state. They also answer a handful of questions from listener Colin Rubbert. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.

Sean and Kyle discuss how to be an effective remote team member, and how to build an effective remote team. Plus a bit of a twins update. lynda.com: Your lynda.com membership will give you unlimited access to training on hundreds of topics--all for one flat rate. Whether you’re looking to become an industry expert, you’re passionate about a hobby, or you just want to learn something new, I want you to visit lynda.com/rubyonrails and sign up for your FREE 10-day trial. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.

Two primary topics this week: Overcoming legacy code. Kyle describes the lessons that he's learned being the primary maintainer of a legacy code base. (Lots of good advice here). Building Rails Engines. Sean describes his experience building a Rails engine to interface with FancyHands. Links for this episode:github.com/togglepro/task_masterDigitalOcean: DigitalOcean provides simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Create a cloud server in 55 seconds--and for as little as $5 per month! Use code RubyPodcast and receive a $10 credit. Codeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months. Braintree: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/railspodcast.