
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

Jun 21, 2023 • 29min
Episode 475: The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby with Spike Ilacqua
Rocky Mountain Ruby is baaaaaack! Conference organizer, Spike Ilacqua, joined Brittany to discuss why he was bringing the conference back to life in Boulder, CO on October 5th and 6th, 2023. They talk about the advice he has gotten, the open CFP and funding the conference. The wrap up talking about how Spike finds AI kinda cool and kinda scary.
Show Notes:
The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby
Sponsor Rocky Mountain Ruby
Rocky Mountain Ruby CFP
Blue Ridge Ruby
Spike's Blog
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
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FastRuby.io
Operating on an old version of Rails is like wearing an old pair of shoes—sure they get the job done (for now) but you want to replace them before you wear a hole in them.
See the full breakdown of our monthly maintenance services and schedule a call with us here.

Jun 14, 2023 • 44min
Episode 474: Ship to Learn (GitHub and AI) with Kyle Daigle
Former host of this podcast, Kyle Daigle is the Chief Operating Officer at GitHub. Kyle joined GitHub in 2013 and built and scaled the Ecosystem Engineering teams and worked on the acquisitions of Semmle, npm, and others. He now oversees culture, operations, and communications for the business. He fills Brittany in on all of the exciting initiatives happening at GitHub: GitHub Accelerator, GitHub Fund, GitHub Sponsors and their new research on developer workflow and productivity with AI.
Show Notes:
344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle
GitHub Copilot
Arctic Code Vault
GitHub Accelerator
GitHub Fund
GitHub Sponsors
Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
Wakefield Research
Kyle Daigle (@kdaigle) · Twitter
Kyle Daigle on LinkedIn
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Honeybadger
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FastRuby.io
Operating on an old version of Rails is like wearing an old pair of shoes—sure they get the job done (for now) but you want to replace them before you wear a hole in them.
See the full breakdown of our monthly maintenance services and schedule a call with us here.

Jun 7, 2023 • 32min
Episode 473: Personal Branding & Strongly Held BBQ Opinions with Cody Norman
Making his podcast debut, Cody Norman is a former Loan Officer and current Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. He enjoys mentoring, working with early career developers and is an Engineering Mentor at The Agency of Learning. He joins Brittany to discuss personal branding, the importance of showing up every day and how he approaches mentoring early career developers.
Show Notes:
Cody Norman's Blog
First Ruby Friend: Find a mentor in the Ruby community
The Agency of Learning
cnorm35 - Cody Norman - Twitter
Cody Norman on LinkedIn
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.
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May 31, 2023 • 30min
Episode 472: All I Wanted Was An Environment Variable (thoughtbot) with Victoria Guido and Joe Ferris
Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program.
Show Notes:
thoughtbot
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Mission Control's AWS Platform Guide
mrsked / mrsk
thoughtbot Incubator
victori_ousg - Victoria Guido / Twitter
Victoria Guido (@vguido@thoughtbot.social)
Joe Ferris (@joeferris) / Twitter
Joe Ferris (@jferris@thoughtbot.social)
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
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May 24, 2023 • 27min
Episode 471: RubyKaigi 2023 Recap (Brittany + Jemma)
The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP.
Show Notes:
RubyKaigi 2023
Field Report: RubyKaigi
Shopify/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser
Stan Lo
Rbspy
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!

May 17, 2023 • 33min
Episode 470: A Smorgasbord of Topics (Brittany + Nick)
Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat.
Show Notes:
Shogun
Geekbot - Run standup meetings in Slack
scarpe-team / scarpe
ChatGPT
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!

May 10, 2023 • 37min
Episode 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live!
Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA.
Guest #1: Aaron Patterson, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Guest #2: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians
Guest #3: Voted on by the community in an online poll: Justin Searls, Meta Programmer at Test Double
Guest #4: Voted on by the community live at this session: Britni Alexander, Senior Software Engineer
Our Vanna White of Guest Selection: Danielle Greaves, Lead Web Developer, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Show Notes:
A Ruby Community Podcast Live! | Railsconf 2023
Peachtree Sound
Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele - YouTube
Keynote - Aaron Patterson | Railsconf 2023
Rails as a piece of birthday cake | Railsconf 2023
Evil Martians
N.E.A.T. (Not Everything's About Technology)
Justin's Field Report from RubyKaiji
Hire Britni! | LinkedIn
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger
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Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free!

May 3, 2023 • 38min
Episode 468: Railsconf 2023 Recap with Drew Bragg and Joël Quenneville
Joël and Drew join Brittany post-conference to discuss their experience at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The trio thank the organizers, share tales from speaking and discuss their favorite talks. They wrap by discussing the new Ruby Central individual memberships and their conference plans for the rest of the year.
Show Notes:
The Bikeshed
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Railsconf
In Favor of Ruby Central Memberships
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!
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.

Apr 26, 2023 • 33min
Episode 467: The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino
Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities.
Show Notes:
The Rails Foundation
Rails World
This Week in Rails newsletter
The Rails Changelog Podcast
Suggestion Form to send ideas to the Rails Foundation
the Tightly Coupled Book Club
Amanda Brooke Perino (@AmandaBPerino) / Twitter
Amanda Perino on LinkedIn
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Atlantis Technology
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Apr 19, 2023 • 32min
Episode 466: Pairing on Code and Conference Talks with Selena Small and Michael Milewski
Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community.
Show Notes:
Failure Driven
Failure Driven on Twitch
Selena Small (@selenasmall88) / Twitter
Michael Milewski (@saramic) · Twitter
Selena on Sessionize
Michael on Sessionize
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!
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.
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