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 311: 311: Pareto Product Programming with Philip Poots

    March 26th, 2020  |  30 mins 11 secs

    Philip Poots is the VP of Engineering at ClubCollect, a FinTech startup in Amsterdam. He is a Pareto product programmer. His recent talk, "Rediscovering Ruby" was a big point of discusssion between Brittany and him.

  • Episode 310: 310: Pivoting Brighton Ruby 2020 with Andy Croll

    March 19th, 2020  |  26 mins 50 secs

    Andy Croll is CTO at CoverageBook & AnswerThePublic, Rubyist, conference organizer of Brighton Ruby, author, speaker, bootstrapper & twin dad. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Andy had to pivot this year's conference into a new experience.

  • Episode 309: 309: Upgrading Rails & Skunk for Scoring with Ernesto Tagwerker

    March 12th, 2020  |  28 mins 54 secs

    Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company. He and Brittany enthusiastically discuss blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto's scoring library, Skunk.

  • Episode 308: 308: Open Source Groundskeeping with Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene

    February 27th, 2020  |  28 mins 22 secs

    Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. He is one of the current maintainers of the VCR gem.

  • Episode 307: 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola

    February 13th, 2020  |  31 mins 20 secs

    Dave Paola was cofounder and CTO at Bloc. He is now the cofounder of Jellyswitch. Dave and Brittany converse about choosing frameworks, bootcamps and frontend frameworks.

  • Episode 306: 306: Ask For The Job with Brian Mariani (Part II)

    February 5th, 2020  |  33 mins 49 secs

    Brian is back! Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm, came back to share his wisdom on financial negotiations and what it is like to recruit from both the client and developer side.

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    Episode 305: 305: Rails Camp USA with Bobbilee Hartman

    January 30th, 2020  |  21 mins 52 secs

    Bobbilee Hartman is a Developer Advocate at Square. She is more widely known as the founder of Rails Camp West, the long-standing unplugged retreat for web developers in the United States. She pitches Brittany on attending this year.

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    Episode 304: 304: Legacy Code Wisdom with Alexey Chernov

    January 23rd, 2020  |  19 mins 16 secs

    Alexey Chernov is a Ruby on Rails consultant at JetThoughts. He has built MVPs and consulted to improve legacy code, scale up the remote team and achieve an effective development process. He and Brittany dive deep into approaching legacy RoR projects.

  • Episode 303: 303: Site Reliability at DEV with Molly Struve

    January 16th, 2020  |  31 mins 4 secs

    Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at DEV, the company that runs the blogging website dev.to. She and Brittany unpack what site reliability means, Molly's fondness of Elasticsearch and how Molly creates all of her educational content.

  • Episode 302: 302: Ruby Autoformatter! with Penelope Phippen

    January 9th, 2020  |  40 mins 41 secs

    Penelope Phippen makes Rubyfmt, and was previously a lead maintainer of the RSpec testing framework. She’s been writing Ruby for just about a decade. She and Brittany discuss Rspec, Ruby Central and her thoughts on the Ruby community.

  • Episode 301: 301: Episode 300 Celebration: Part 2

    January 2nd, 2020  |  24 mins 34 secs

    Brittany and Nick continue to celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 2 of the episode, they discuss Brittany's topic for ParisRB, setting up and contributing to dev.to and imposter syndrome. Happy New Year!

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    Episode 300: 300: Episode 300 Celebration: Part 1

    December 26th, 2019  |  28 mins 22 secs

    Brittany and Nick celebrate Episode 300 of the podcast! In Part 1 of the episode, they discuss New Years resolutions, switching back from Windows to MacOS and using Rubyfmt with Atom. A special thank you to you, the listeners, for helping make 300 happen.

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    Episode 299: 299: Cover My Culture with Anne Richardson and Alex Miller

    December 19th, 2019  |  23 mins 30 secs

    It's three's company! CoverMyMeds' engineers, Anne Richardson and Alex Miller, guested on the podcast to discuss CMM's remote developer culture, approach to microservices and commitment to the Ruby community.

  • Episode 298: 298: How to Become an Encoding Champion with DeeDee Lavinder

    December 10th, 2019  |  27 mins 55 secs

    DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a Backend Engineer for Spreedly and is a Director with Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. She helped Brittany understand how encoding works, how Ruby handles encoding issues, and how to strategically debug encoding snafus.

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    Episode 297: 297: The Functional Rubyist with Joe Leo

    November 25th, 2019  |  36 mins 34 secs

    Joe Leo is the CEO of Def Method, an agile Ruby software consultancy, and the co-author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition. He and Brittany discussed functional programming in Ruby and their thoughts on the Ruby community after Rubyconf 2019.

  • Episode 296: 296: Conscious Coding Practice with Noah Gibbs

    November 20th, 2019  |  34 mins 52 secs

    Brittany is live from Rubyconf 2019! Noah Gibbs is a Ruby Fellow for AppFolio, working on the core Ruby language and related tooling. Noah now believes that communicating with humans may not be a passing fad, and he's trying it out.