Elise Shaffer has hosted 47 Episodes.
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Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke
May 21st, 2025 | 28 mins 17 secs
Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end
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Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls
May 7th, 2025 | 39 mins 20 secs
Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails)
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Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea
April 23rd, 2025 | 32 mins 20 secs
Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails
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Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt
April 9th, 2025 | 34 mins 59 secs
Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show to tell us about building a small software company with Rails.
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Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
March 5th, 2025 | 30 mins 15 secs
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
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Episode 532: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
February 12th, 2025 | 36 mins 13 secs
Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. Joe is known as the Hotwire Native guy - he helps Rails developers build web-powered iOS and Android apps with Hotwire Native. He joins the show to talk about how Hotwire Native can help you build mobile apps out of your Rails apps.
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Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon
January 22nd, 2025 | 33 mins 47 secs
This year, I want to expand the show in a new direction. I want to hear from startups and companies that are building with Rails. Today's episode feature John Nunemaker and Garrett Dimon who recently acquired Fireside.fm, the podcast hosting platform we use for this show.
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Episode 530: Ask Elise Anything hosted by Rachael Wright-Munn
January 2nd, 2025 | 37 mins 13 secs
In this episode, Elise responds to listener submitted questions on everything from her career journey to how cooking relates to coding. With special guest host, Rachael Wright-Munn
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Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
December 11th, 2024 | 31 mins 35 secs
This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.
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Episode 528: Working In Tech With ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi
November 27th, 2024 | 37 mins 50 secs
In the last few years, there’s been more awareness about ADHD in adults. We’ve learned that it’s more than hyperactivity and it’s not a deficit of attention. Many working in tech have ADHD and because we have a world built for neurotypicals, there can be unique challenges for those working in tech with ADHD. Today, Chris Ferdinandi joins the show to talk to us about how to thrive in tech with ADHD.
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Episode 527: Evangelizing Rails with Irina Nazarova
November 13th, 2024 | 30 mins 36 secs
We all love Ruby on Rails. You may remember that my first episode on this show was about whether Rails was still relevant. In the last few years, there’s been so many exciting things coming to Ruby and Rails. I have felt that excitement in the community. I’ve felt it at conferences and in my conversations with many of you. Today, Irina Nazarova joins us to talk about how we can better evangelize Rails
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Episode 526: Rails World with Robby Russell
October 23rd, 2024 | 31 mins 58 secs
Nick and I recorded an episode at Rails World with Robby Russell. This is a test of new format we're running where we discuss Rails News. Robby joins us to talk about the Rails Developer Survey that ran this summer. WE also chat about all the new things announced at Rails World.
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Episode 525: Catching Up With Ruby Central with Marty Haught
October 9th, 2024 | 29 mins 23 secs
Ruby Central has been a foundational part of the Ruby community since 2003. They organize Ruby Conf and Rails Conf and maintain critical Ruby infrastructure like rubygems.org. With Ruby Conf Chicago just around the corner and new initiatives at Ruby Central, we thought it would be a good time to catch up with our friends at Ruby Central. Marty Haught joins the show to tell us more about Ruby Central's open source initiatives.
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Episode 524: Writing Code Using AI with Landon Gray
September 25th, 2024 | 28 mins 39 secs
Large language models are everywhere now. They’re changing the way we work, from tools code completion tools like Copilot, to audio generation apps like Suno.ai. Apple recently announced huge updates with generative AI for all of their platforms. Adobe, Canva, and Google have all added AI to their products. It seems like every vendor is building these features. So how will this change the way we write and think about code. Landon Gray joins the show to tell us how AI will change software development.
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Episode 523: Welcome Back, Nick Schwaderer
September 11th, 2024 | 31 mins 52 secs
Our illustrious cohost Nick is back from parental leave! We talk about life as a parent and coder, committing to Ruby on Rails, and being coworkers.
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Episode 522: Mentoring Junior Devs with Adam Cuppy
August 28th, 2024 | 39 mins 42 secs
A recent focus of many in the community has been expanding the community. We all love Rails and want to create the best community possible. Part of this focus has to include early career devs. We need to expose them to Rails and mentor them into the senior developers and tech leaders we need in the future. Adam Cuppy joins the show today to teach how to be better mentors.