About the show

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.

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Episodes

  • Episode 345: 346: Elixir and Phoenix with Jesse Herrick

    November 25th, 2020  |  33 mins 16 secs

    Jesse Herrick is a software engineer based in Columbus, Ohio at Little Lines, a RoR development company. Jesse often works in Rails for work, but his main software passion is Elixir and Phoenix. He dazzles Brittany with how great Phoenix LiveView is.

  • Episode 344: 345: Packwerk with Maple Ong

    November 18th, 2020  |  22 mins 29 secs

    Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.

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    Episode 343: 344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle

    November 11th, 2020  |  39 mins 7 secs

    Former host of the podcast, Kyle Daigle is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at GitHub working on cross company projects to help GitHubbers and the developer community. He and Brittany catchup and discuss the incredible Arctic Code Vault.

  • Episode 342: 343: Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn

    November 4th, 2020  |  30 mins 8 secs

    Aaron Kahn is a Certified Financial Planner at Wealth Management Strategies, Inc., a fully-independent Pittsburgh-based registered investment advisor. He joined Brittany to answer burning, impactful financial questions especially for software developers.

  • Episode 341: 342: [Maintainable] Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands

    October 28th, 2020  |  50 mins 17 secs

    Brittany guested on the Maintainable Podcast. Robby and her discuss the mistakes that developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.

  • Episode 340: 341: Fearless Principles with Jason Taylor

    October 21st, 2020  |  23 mins 47 secs

    Jason Taylor is currently a Principal Software Engineer at TextUs and it is his first ever podcast appearance. He and Brittany dig into what being a principal means (key: confidence) and discuss some spooky Rails horror stories.

  • Episode 339: 340: dry-rb, ROM.rb & “My Time with Rails is Up” with Piotr Solnica

    October 14th, 2020  |  29 mins 12 secs

    Ruby is more than Rails. Brittany welcomed Piotr Solnica, Senior Ruby Backend Engineer at Castle.io and creator of ROM.rb and dry-rb core team member to the show to discuss his new job, OSS contributions and why he left Rails.

  • Episode 338: 339: kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro

    October 7th, 2020  |  28 mins 46 secs

    Cameron Dutro believes we need Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage. That's what kuby is - an easy way to deploy your Ruby on Rails application without getting your dev-ops black belt first.

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    Episode 337: 338: Learn Someday & Tech for Good with Rachel Green

    September 30th, 2020  |  26 mins 26 secs

    Rachel Green is a web developer based in Houston, Texas. She is an admin for the Ruby on Rails Slack group and is also involved with civic engagement and advocacy efforts and is passionate about the potential for tech to do good for others.

  • Episode 336: 337: Chipping Away at a Monolith with Tori Huang

    September 23rd, 2020  |  26 mins 39 secs

    Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and her team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. She and Brittany discuss knowing when to uncouple a service and how to identify orphan code.

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    Episode 335: 336: Brittany Has A New Job(!) && Co-Host Catchup

    September 16th, 2020  |  34 mins 2 secs

    Brittany has a new job! She is the new Backend Engineering Lead at TextUs. She invites Nick to pepper her with questions about switching, remote work and a new codebase. Brittany asks Nick for an update on Past Rubies.

  • Episode 334: 335: AllTrails is All Rails with James Graham

    September 9th, 2020  |  23 mins 10 secs

    James Graham and his team are responsible for expanding AllTrails beyond a functional tool to a fun and personalized, trail discovery experience all supported by highly scalable web services -- including Ruby on Rails.

  • Episode 333: 334: Simple Lovable Complete with Michael Springer

    September 2nd, 2020  |  20 mins 43 secs

    The announcer of the podcast, Michael Springer guested on the show. Michael is a software engineer at JazzHR and he spends his free time tinkering on hobbyist projects ranging from writing chat bots to building plastic robots.

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    Episode 332: 333: Logic That Serverless Logic with Ken Collins

    August 26th, 2020  |  22 mins 14 secs

    Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer at Custom Ink where he focuses on growing their DevOps culture. Ken continues his open source Rails career by focusing on solutions that leverage AWS Lambda with Rails using a gem called Lamby.

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    Episode 331: 332: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell

    August 19th, 2020  |  30 mins 16 secs

    Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon. On his second appearance, he and Brittany review the results of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey.

  • Episode 330: 330: Oh My Zsh & Maintainable Rails with Robby Russell

    August 12th, 2020  |  31 mins 22 secs

    Making his first appearance since 2018, Robby Russell is back on the show. Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon, a software consultancy.