
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

Feb 1, 2023 • 31min
Episode 455: Adventures in TruffleRuby (Brittany + Nick)
After taking a moment to talk about Chris Seaton's impact on the community, Nick tells Brittany about his adventures in TruffleRuby and Hatchbox. They also discuss how Shopify removed all recurring meetings with more than two people in perpetuity to encourage more focus time.
Show Notes & Links:
Chris Seaton
oracle/truffleruby - GitHub
postmodern/chruby: Changes the current Ruby - GitHub
Hatchbox.io
Roda: Routing Tree Web Toolkit - Jeremy Evans
Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings
Workplace from Meta
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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.
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Jan 25, 2023 • 50min
Episode 454: Rubyconf @ Home: Hanami Core Team
Captured live from Rubyconf 2022 Home Edition on January 11th, 2023, this is a special episode recorded with the Hanami Core Team: Luca Guidi, Tim Riley and Peter Solnica. Co-moderated by Jason Charnes and Brittany Martin.
Moderated By:
Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby
Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Panelists:
Luca Guidi
Tim Riley
Peter Solnica
A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf @ Home for making this happen!
Show Notes:
Hanami
dry-rb
ROM
Roda
decafsucks / decafsucks
Sponsor Hanami
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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!

Jan 18, 2023 • 31min
Episode 453: Ruby for All Crossover: Integrations
Brittany guested on Ruby for All this week! She joins Julie J to talk about why integrations are important to developers and why integration knowledge can give Juniors a leg up in hiring. They also discuss the differences between APIs and webhooks and review a real world example.
Show Notes & Links:
Ruby for All
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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!

Jan 11, 2023 • 26min
Episode 452: 2023 with Finesse (Brittany + Jemma)
After reflecting on their 2022 resolutions, Brittany and Jemma talk about their resolutions for 2023. Afterwards, Brittany congratulates Jemma on shipping Object Shapes in Ruby 3.2, asks what is in store for her next and why everyone should upgrade to Ruby 3.2. They wrap up the episode talking about team changes at TextUs.
Show Notes & Links:
Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma
Ruby 3.2.0 Released
Shopify/yjit: Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby - GitHub
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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.

Jan 4, 2023 • 34min
Episode 451: How We Hire Junior Developers with Andy Croll
The podcast voice is back! Andy Croll is starting 2023 off right by joining Brittany to discuss the process they went through at CoverageBook to hire a junior developer. The timing is perfect because TextUs was also hiring a Junior developer so Brittany cons Andy into sharing a bunch of free advice. Happy New Year, listeners!
Show Notes & Links:
CoverageBook
Episode 384 - The TextUs Junior Trio with Saundra Catalina, Jeff Golden and Luke Mason
My First Ruby Friend
One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll
Chats in the Cupboard
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Atlantis Technology
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Dec 28, 2022 • 35min
Episode 450: Bootstrapping SaaS on Rails + Finding Community with Adam Pallozzi
Adam Pallozzi has been a professional musician, business owner and software developer. Now, he has co-founded SleepHQ, a CPAP support community where users can upload, review and share their therapy data with anyone. Ahead of his (spoiler: successful) launch of the Pro version, Adam sits down with Brittany to discuss his journey to finding Rails, his appreciation of Bullet Train, working on hardware (magic!) and finding community from AU.
Show Notes & Links:
SleepHQ
Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template
Adam Pallozzi (@adampallozzi) / Twitter
Adam Pallozzi on Youtube
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Dec 21, 2022 • 29min
Episode 449: New OSS Maintainers with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo
Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo are back on the show as new maintainers of the Faker gem! The trio discuss what they have learned in OSS so far, when to declare bankruptcy and how to market a project for new contributors. Does Hacktoberfest make a difference?
Show Notes & Links:
Episode 407 | Get to Senior with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo (hexdevs)
Get to Senior | hexdevs
faker-ruby / faker
How to Open Source with Richard Schneeman | hexdevs Podcast
Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter
Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter
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they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here.

Dec 14, 2022 • 31min
Episode 448: Turbo Native Workshop with Joe Masilotti
Joe Masilotti of both Turbo Native and railsdevs fame, joined Brittany to talk about his upcoming Turbo Native workshop. They discuss why he is conducting the workshop(s), whether he is happy with the current state of Turbo Native (with a cool OSS reveal) and of course, an update on how railsdevs is progressing.
Show Notes & Links:
Episode 413 - Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti
Turbo Native Workshop
hotwired / turbo-ios
railsdevs
Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti)
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Dec 7, 2022 • 37min
Episode 447: Rubyconf Mini Recap + The Rails Foundation (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
Brittany is joined by the co-organizers of Rubyconf Mini: co-host, Jemma, and Emily Samp. The trio discussed how inclusivity was laced into the event, their futures as conference planners and the adoration of Jemma's Nana. In the back half of the episode, they discuss their expectations and reaction to the announcement of The Rails Foundation.
Show Notes & Links:
Episode 434 All Things RubyConf Mini (Brittany + Jemma)
The Rails Foundation](https://rubyonrails.org/foundation)
The Ruby on Rails Podcast Listener Feedback Form
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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.

Nov 30, 2022 • 43min
Episode 446: I'm Giving A Talk on Thursday (The Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel)
Live from Providence, RI, it is the Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel! Panelists from different community podcasts come together to discuss their experiences at the conference, field questions from the audience attendees and of course, mention their upcoming talks they were giving at the conference.
Moderated By:
Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Panelists:
Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard
Drew Bragg, Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Joël Quenneville, The Bikeshed
Julie J, Ruby for All
A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf Mini for making this panel happen: Jemma Issroff, Emily Samp and Andy Croll.
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Scout APM
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