Episode 503: Katya Dreyer-Oren on Ethical Software Development

January 17th, 2024  |  31 mins 42 secs

What do we owe to each other? Over the last several years, the tech industry has had a reckoning about ethics within our industry. Katya Dreyer-Oren gave a excellent talk and workshop at RubyConf in San Diego about how to ethically build software. She joined the show to share her thoughts and ideas from her experience as a student of philosophy

Episode 502: New Years Resolutions with Jemma Issroff

January 10th, 2024  |  26 mins 23 secs

Our cohost Jemma Issroff joined me to talk about my tenure as host so far, Jemma's work on Prism, fostering communities, building habits, how to be lucky, and we reveal our New Year's Resolutions!

Episode 501: Ruby For All Crossover!

January 3rd, 2024  |  26 mins 54 secs

I joined Julie and Andrew from Ruby For All to talk about Test Driven Development, attending conferences, and using TDD as a thinking tool.. This episode was recorded at RubyConf in San Diego.

Episode 500: Episode 500 Bonanza!

December 20th, 2023  |  30 mins 3 secs

Can you believe its been 500 Episodes? What a wild ride. It's been so much fun to take over the show and to get to be a part of this history. Our co-host Nick Schwaderer sat down with me to talk about the history of the show, what it's been like taking over, and some ideas for things we might experiment with in the future. I hope you enjoy it.

Episode 499: The Ruby on Rails Podcast X Coding Coders

December 13th, 2023  |  36 mins 55 secs

Drew Bragg is the host of Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It. We caught up to bring this special collaboration.

Episode 498: Remote Ruby X The Ruby on Rails Podcast

December 6th, 2023  |  50 mins 7 secs

I joined the Chris and Andrew from Remote Ruby to talk about podcasting, the beauty of the Ruby language, Ruby outside of Rails, and why you should probably be using a state machine. It was so fun getting to talk with them and I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Episode 497: Rachel Moser on The Odin Project

November 29th, 2023  |  23 mins 40 secs

Rachel is a core maintainer to The Odin Project, an open source education project that helps people learn Ruby and Javascript. She joined me on the show to talk about the project, how she became involved, and her role with the team.

Episode 496: Live From The RubyConf Hallway Track

November 22nd, 2023  |  26 mins 20 secs

I attended Ruby Conf and took the opportunity to chat with some attendees about their experience at the conference. This was a super fun experiment and getting to hear from new voices in the community was such a treat. I hope you enjoy it!

Episode 495: Marc Reynolds on Packwerk

November 8th, 2023  |  32 mins 20 secs

Episode 494: Rails World Live! Pt 2 with Nick Schwaderer and Rafael França

November 1st, 2023  |  38 mins 8 secs

Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Raphael França about his work on the Rails Core team and releasing a new version of Rails.

Episode 493: Rails World Live! Pt.1 With Nick Schwaderer and Andrew Mason

October 25th, 2023  |  31 mins 36 secs

Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Andrew Mason about podcasting, engaging with the Ruby community, how interest rates impact the tech industry, Turbo , and some of the new things announced at Rails World.

Episode 492: Vladimir Dementyev on Layered Design

October 18th, 2023  |  29 mins 45 secs

Vladimir is a backend engineer from Mars, or Evil Martians, a consultancy specialized in product development for startups and developer tools. Vladimir is known for his work on many open-source projects in the Ruby on Rails world, such as AnyCable, Action Policy, TestProf and many more. He recently published the book Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications.

Episode 491: Reflecting on Rocky Mountain Ruby with Bekki Freeman

October 11th, 2023  |  24 mins 21 secs

Bekki Freeman has been working with Ruby and Rails for 8 years. Recently, she helped organize the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. She joins Elise this week to reflect on the conference, talk about what it was like organizing, and make some karaoke plans with Elise

Episode 490: Ruby On Rails As A Career Choice with Olly Headey

October 4th, 2023  |  27 mins 12 secs

Olly Headey joined the show to talk with Elise about his recent blog post concerning the future of Ruby on Rails as a career. We discuss his post, some survey data, and talk about software developers might want to think about this question.

Episode 489: Hello, Elise! Goodbye, Brittany.

September 27th, 2023  |  19 mins 55 secs

Elise Shaffer is a trans woman and Staff Software Engineer who loves Ruby and Ruby on Rails. She is also the new host of this podcast! Brittany announces her retirement from the show after a five year run as the host. In this special episode, the pair discuss Brittany's favorite moments from her run, get to know Elise and discuss any upcoming changes for the show.

Episode 488: Rubyconf 2023 Preview with Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman

September 20th, 2023  |  33 mins 48 secs

Special co-host Kevin Murphy joined Brittany this week to interview Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman, co-chairs of the upcoming Rubyconf 2023 happening in San Diego. The quartet discussed lessons learned from Railsconf 2023, the approach to thinking about and planning this year's Rubyconf and what is new and different at the event.