The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions. Show Notes: Workforce.com Why companies don't hire juniors by Alex Ghiculescu If you want to learn more about working at Workforce.com, reach out to: Chicago - Stacey McKnight - smcknight@workforce.com London - Phil Fraser - philip@workforce.com Brisbane - Austin Wilshire - austin@tanda.co For non-junior roles, they will consider folks who don’t live in those places but can commute to them occasionally. 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! 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.

Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at RubyConf Mini and her recent team switch at Shopify. Show Notes: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify by Rose Wiegley RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote by Rose Wiegley NormConf Talk: Data Driven Promotions Alex Terrasa’s talk, "Here be dragons" ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups Rose W (@rose_w) / Twitter rose (@rose@ruby.social) Rose's Blog 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! Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen. Show Notes: Episode 431: For the Love of Consulting and the Cloud with Mina Slater Ruby on Rails Guides the Tightly Coupled Book Club Ruby Book Club Podcast Mina Slater (@mina@thoughtbot.social) Aji Slater (@aji@thoughtbot.social) Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeybadger is the application health monitoring tool built for you, the developer who cares about a quality product and happy customers. Start monitoring today at https://www.honeybadger.io/. Honeybadger is free for small teams, and setup takes as little as five minutes. Visit https://www.honeybadger.io/. Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany. Show Notes: Shoes! The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby why-archive/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf at master - GitHub Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.26.0.1 - GitHub scarpe-team / scarpe schwad (@schwad_rb) / Twitter Hackety Hack - Wikipedia Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails Sandi Metz Sponsored By: Honeybadger Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll. Show Notes & Links: You can follow Colleen on the following platforms: Colleen Leonard / LinkedIn Colleen Leonard (@_colleenleonard) / Twitter Colleen Leonard on (@ccleonard ) / Mastodon You can follow Test Double on the following platforms: Read the latest at https://blog.testdouble.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@testdouble Sponsored By: Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! Honeybadger Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days.

In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market. Show Notes & Links: Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian) Mirror Placement Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io to learn more. JetBrains RubyMine RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase. You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.

Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting Blue Ridge Ruby, a two-day, single-track conference featuring ten speakers, plus lightning talks. The conference will be held at the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th. Show Notes: Blue Ridge Ruby Sponsor Blue Ridge Ruby HYBRD IndieRails Podcast Jeremy Smith (@jeremysmithco) / Twitter Mark Locklear (@marklocklear@techhub.social) - Twitter Mark's Personal Site Sponsored By: Honeybadger Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's every single minute!  A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io with plans starting at free! Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!

Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. They dive deeper into their internship program and how an internship is one of the most accessible ways to start bringing juniors into the team. Show Notes & Links: LEARN academy 3-Day Jumpstart Bootcamp | LEARN academy Partners | LEARN academy Adam Cuppy on LinkedIn Sarah Proctor on LinkedIn Chelsea Kaufman on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io to learn more. Scout APM Get the best of both worlds with Scout APM. Quick and effective performance monitoring designed specifically for Rails developers, it helps you fix issues fast with a developer-friendly UI and tracing logic. Resolve abnormalities like N+1 queries and memory bloat in real-time and prevent customer impact with real-time alerting. Try it now with a free 14-day trial and get started at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails . Then, take your skills to the next level at SPOTcon 2023. Experience the future of performance monitoring alongside Scout APM and other industry leaders. Stay ahead of the game with innovative solutions at SPOTCon 2023 a virtual event on March 2nd, 2023 - Register Now! www.spotcon.io.

Emmanuel Hayford is an independent Rails Consultant and a co-editor of "The Weeks in Rails". He excitedly tells Brittany his favorite upcoming features for Rails 7.1 and his favorite features that shipped with Ruby 3.2. They wrap the episode discussing why community content is so important. Show Notes & Links: This Week in Rails TryRuby: Learn programming with Ruby An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part I Ruby 3.2.0 Released Rad Ruby Emmanuel Hayford on Twitter (@siaw23) Sponsored By: Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! Honeybadger Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days.

Kevin Murphy is a software developer in the Boston area, currently working at Bookbub. After discussing Kevin's first commit into Ruby(!), he and Brittany discuss the long-term benefits and effects of community involvement, including speaking. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kevin's tour promo at the end of the episode! Show Notes & Links: Contributing to Ruby Docs Ruby's Coverage Module Kevin Murphy's website Kevin Murphy on Mastodon Kevin's Blog Post Series about having an MBA Kevin's contribution to Ruby Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io to learn more. Miro Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!