The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Rails World needed a website! Did you want to be on the small team that helps build it? Shami Tomita and Eric Halverson certainly did and so they came on to the show to talk about their experience and the tech stack behind the conferencing app. Backed by Daniel Rassiner and Cody Norman, the crew talked about supporting Juniors and conference tips. Show Notes: Rails World CasaVolunteerTracking.org The Agency of Learning Eric Halverson (@elhalvers) / Twitter Eric on Github Eric on LinkedIn Shami (@Shami941) / Twitter Shami on Github Shami on LinkedIn Daniel on Github Daniel on LinkedIn Cody's Personal Site Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Rocky Mountain Ruby The Rocky Mountain Ruby conference returns to Boulder, Colorado on October 5th and 6th. Join them for two days of insightful talks from experienced Ruby developers with plenty of opportunities to connect with your Ruby community. Experience a great Ruby conference in a great city! Get you tickets today at Rocky Mountain Ruby

If you love taking about databases, this is the episode for you. Ahead of the launch of his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Andrew Atkinson joined the show with special guest co-host, Pat Bair, to talk about why he wrote a book, why he focused on PostgreSQL and his favorite feature from the upcoming 7.1 release. Show Notes: Landing page and newsletter signup for the book “High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails” Andrew's Tweet Announcing Beta for the Book Andrew's Personal blog on Postgres/Rails/general topics Rideshare Rails API app used for book examples/exercises Pg_scripts repo Andrew’s Postgres and Rails presentations and podcast appearances on YouTube Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) / X Andrew on GitHub Pat on Github Sponsored By: Honeybadger You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Scout APM Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Nick is heading to Rails World to represent the show and he has a ticket to giveaway to a lucky listener! The pair talk about doing hard things first, the renaming of MRSK to Kamal and then a random deep dive on our show's archives. Check out the show notes for giveaway details! Show Notes: The Ruby on Rails Podcast RailsWorld Ticket Contest | Complete by September 2nd, 2023 scarpe-team / scarpe scarpe-diem Discord Server Github | Rename project to Kamal The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 3: Tobias Luettke Sponsored By: Honeybadger As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io Don’t lose 25% of your efficiency to technical debt. Sign up for FastRuby’s tech debt remediation service, Bonsai and gradually upgrade core dependencies and refactor costly files — starting at $2k/month 🚀 Learn more here.

Ariel Fogel, a software engineer, discusses leveling up in learning with Brittany. They talk about their immersive experience at Dev Bootcamp, involvement with the agency of learning and Rails Hackathon, and building a custom visualization feature for Hawaii. They also share their love for the Rails community and excitement about hot wire and strata.

After celebrating Jemma's newly established status as a Ruby core member, Brittany and Jemma discuss what is happening with Brittany at work, including taking some customer calls. The two hosts also talk about the important skill of being able to know your audience and how to communicate to non-technical stakeholders. They wrap up discussing AI fitness. Show Notes: Ruby: Propose Kevin Newton and Jemma Issroff as core committers ruby/yarp on Github Fitbod Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io Don’t lose 25% of your efficiency to technical debt. Sign up for FastRuby’s tech debt remediation service, Bonsai and gradually upgrade core dependencies and refactor costly files — starting at $2k/month 🚀 Learn more here.

Even though not a ton has changed in the last 4 months since Brittany and Brian last recorded the State of Rails Hiring, this hiring market is both awful and awesome depending on who you talk to. The duo dig into AI generated cover letters, the good and bad symptoms of what is happening in the economy and specific tactics to help get engineers and employers over the hump. Show Notes: Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian) Mirror Placement Sponsored By: Honeybadger As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! 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.

There comes a time in almost every software application when it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Robby Russell, CEO of Planet Argon, joins the show to guide Brittany on the steps to take to decommission a Ruby on Rails application. The pair also touch on the idea of how small dev teams would benefit from periodically bringing in "guests" to their codebase. Show Notes: Planet Argon The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell How to Decommission Your Ruby on Rails Application | Planet Argon Sunset A Rails Application | Planet Argon Robby on Rails Robby on Mastodon Robby on Twitter Sponsored By: Honeybadger You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication libraries, and front-end JavaScript. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Scout APM Experience the perfect blend of efficiency and accuracy with Scout APM. Our performance monitoring solution is tailor-made for Rails developers, providing fast and effective troubleshooting with an intuitive UI and advanced tracing logic. With real-time anomaly detection and instant alerts, you can swiftly resolve issues like N+1 queries and memory bloat, and prevent customer impact. Don't wait any longer to optimize your Rails app performance - sign up for our free 14-day trial today at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Nick Maloney is co-founder of The Gnar Company, a full service product consulting shop. Nick and Brittany discuss Gnar's project for the State of Massachusetts to build out an automated background check system. Nick shares why Rails is their default stack and why he is particularly impressed with the direction of the front-end happening in Rails 7. Show Notes: The Gnar Company The Gnar Company Blog Nick Maloney on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free!

Brittany and Nick sync up after Nick's one-night-only talk at Brighton Ruby 2023. It wouldn't be a recap without the conference organizer so they were lucky to find Andy Croll free to fill them in on why he continues to run the event and his thoughts on the uptick on conference attendance. Show Notes: Brighton Ruby Conference Andy Croll's personal site scarpe-diem Discord Server Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free!

Andrew Culver is a long-time Rails developer and creator of Bullet Train, a SaaS framework for Rails, and the organizer of The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece. Brittany was excited to have him on the show to talk about his hacker origins, his latest event in Athens, and to discuss why Rails World sold out in 45 minutes. Show Notes: Bullet Train: The Open Source Ruby on Rails SaaS Framework The Rails SaaS Conference Laravel Spark Photos from Andrew's Hacker Phase Indie Rails: Michael Buckbee - Balancing Marketing & Development While Building Wafris Rails World - 2023 — October 5 & 6 Andrew Culver (@andrewculver) / Twitter Sponsored By: Honeybadger As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Mirror Placement Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here.