
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

Nov 23, 2022 • 33min
Episode 445: The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany + Nick)
It's back and now a tradition! It's the Holiday Gift Guide episode where Brittany and Nick share their picks for gifts that might appeal to a developer in your life.
Brittany's Picks
Philips Hue: Smart lighting
Gold Neutral Recorder Button
Cirkul Water Bottle | Brittany's Referral Link to Save $
Felix Gray Blue Light Glasses
Wizard Zines by Julia Evans
Nick's Picks
Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs
AWS IoT Button
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought
Steam Deck
Lava Lamp
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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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Nov 16, 2022 • 24min
Episode 444: Artificial Intelligence on Rails with Kevin Su
Kevin Su ditched college to pursue the venture-backed startup dream, but found his calling running a small, bootstrapped and profitable SaaS business called Clearscope. Together, Brittany, Brian and Kevin discuss why Rails is the perfect launching pad for SaaS businesses, the tech stack Clearscope has chosen and how they approach hiring.
Show Notes & Links:
Clearscope
Kalzumeus Software - patio11
Start Small, Stay Small
Senior/Lead Full-stack Software Engineers at Clearscope
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Scout APM
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Nov 9, 2022 • 30min
Episode 443: Your Network Is Your Net Worth with Roman Turner
Roman Turner is a classically trained French chef turned developer. He's now a Software Developer at America's Test Kitchen. He and Brittany discuss personal branding, attracting and keeping members in the Ruby/Rails community and advice for junior developers seeking their first role.
Show Notes & Links:
America's Test Kitchen
Jeweler’s Apprentice
Roman (@scoop_law) / Twitter
Sponsored By:
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.
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.

Nov 2, 2022 • 33min
Episode 442: Sierra Rails (The Apprenticeship Pattern) with Dave Paola
An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results.
Show Notes & Links:
Episode 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola
Sierra Rails
Exposing your Ignorance by Sierra Rails
Dave Paola (@dpaola2) · Twitter
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Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Oct 26, 2022 • 33min
Episode 441: The Pursuit of Mentorship with Meghan Gutshall
Meg Gutshall is a Ruby on Rails application developer at Penn Medicine with a passion for open source. Brittany asks Meg about her love of Virtual Coffee, her fond memories of Mike Rogers and her role as a core team member of Ruby for Good.
Show Notes & Links:
Penn Medicine
Virtual Coffee
Ruby for Good
meg_gutshall - Twitter
meg-gutshall (Meg Gutshall) - GitHub
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Honeybadger
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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.

Oct 19, 2022 • 25min
Episode 440: World Traveler and Ruby 3.2 Preview (Brittany + Jemma)
Object Shapes is merged and headed to Ruby 3.2! Fresh off of her world tour, Jemma catches up with Brittany about RubyKaigi, Euroku and Rails SaaS. After talking about Rubyconf Mini plans, the pair discuss the new Data.define feature coming to Ruby 3.2 as well.
Show Notes & Links:
Rubyconf Mini Tickets
Implement Object Shapes #6386 by jemmaissroff
Add Data class implementation: Simple immutable value object #6353 by zverok
New in Ruby 3.2 - Data.define
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Honeybadger
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Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Oct 12, 2022 • 36min
Episode 439: One More Podcast Pitch with Andy Croll
Andy Croll is back and he has something to say. Brittany and Andy chat from their cupboards about My First Ruby Friend, bringing yourself to work, Apple note driven development and Rubyconf Mini. They spend the rest of the episode on Andy's podcast pitch.
Show Notes & Links:
My First Ruby Friend
One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll
Rubyconf Mini 2022
Chats in the Cupboard
Andy Croll (@andycroll) / Twitter
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Honeybadger
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Atlantis Technology
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Oct 5, 2022 • 33min
Episode 438: The Rails SaaS Conference Hype Train with Drew Bragg
Reunited and it feels so good! Friend of the show and host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, Drew Bragg, is back today. Together, he and Brittany discuss the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference and their goals for attending. They also hash out Drew's game show talk for Rubyconf Mini and how he is straddling a Rails upgrade and ViewComponent upgrade at work.
Show Notes & Links:
Code and the Coding Coders who Code it
Rails SaaS Conference
Rubyconf Mini
ViewComponent
MaterialUI
Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) / Twitter
Paul Bahr (@PaulEditsPods) / Twitter
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
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.

Sep 28, 2022 • 31min
Episode 437: It's Not Only Sauerkraut and Pickles (Brittany + Nick)
After diving into CrossFit and their favorite comfort foods, Nick and Brittany talk all things conferences: RubyKaigi 2022, Rails SaaS and Rubyconf 2022. Nick ends the episode by sharing some cool Rails upgrade tooling he is working on.
Show Notes & Links:
CrossFit
RubyKaigi 2022
Rails SaaS Conference
Rubyconf 2022
Rubyconf Mini 2022
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Sep 21, 2022 • 51min
Episode 436: The RoR Podcast x Rubber Duck Dev Show: Engineering Manager vs. Product Manager
Brittany returns to the the Rubber Duck Dev Show! In this episode, Chris and Creston discuss the different viewpoints and objectives for engineering managers vs. product managers with Brittany Martin & Josh Gaastra.
Show Notes & Links:
Rubber Duck Dev Show | Wednesdays at 8p EST
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Scout APM
Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails.
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.
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