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 295: 295: Power the World with Rails with Bindiya Mansharamani & Andrew Derenge

    November 11th, 2019  |  25 mins 19 secs

    Bindiya Mansharamani, Director of Engineering, & Andrew Derenge, Principal Engineer at RigUp joined Brittany to discuss RigUp's GraphQL design choices, engineering culture and the career path to achieve senior and director level.

  • Episode 294: 294: The Career Advice I Wish I Had with Ali Spittel

    November 5th, 2019  |  32 mins 34 secs

    Ali Spittel loves teaching people to code. She blogs a lot about code and her life as a developer. Brittany and Ali discuss the lessons behind Ali's blog post, "The Career Advice I Wish I Had".

  • Episode 293: 293: Speed as a Feature with Gannon McGibbon

    October 29th, 2019  |  14 mins 46 secs

    Gannon McGibbon is a Software Developer at Shopify. He primarily works on improving codebase health of Shopify's monolithic Rails app. He joined Brittany to discuss his latest blog post, "How to Write Fast Ruby on Rails code".

  • Episode 292: 292: Finesse in Quitting (Brittany Martin on the Bikeshed)

    October 23rd, 2019  |  42 mins 34 secs

    [Repost from the Bikeshed] On this week's episode, Steph Viccari is joined by Brittany. They discuss Brittany's passion for roller derby and her upcoming Ruby conference talk: "Hire Me, I'm Excellent at Quitting."

  • Episode 291: 291: New Gigs, Rails 6 Upgrade Confessions and Rubyconf Hype

    October 15th, 2019  |  38 mins 45 secs

    Brittany and Nick catch up on happenings in their worlds. Nick started a new gig and Brittany was accepted into Rubyconf as a speaker. Predictably, after discussing upgrading to Rails 6 and releasing new gems, the conversation focused on keyboards.

  • Episode 290: 290: Ruby for Good with Polly Schandorf

    October 9th, 2019  |  25 mins 23 secs

    Polly Schandorf is a Ruby community advocate, a newly minted extreme programmer and an organizer for Ruby for Good. She is also one of the organizers of WeCamp - a code retreat and unconference in the woods in the suburbs of DC.

  • Episode 289: 289: When You HTTParty, You Must Party Hard with John Nunemaker

    October 2nd, 2019  |  42 mins 34 secs

    John Nunemaker, creator and maintainer of HTTParty and Flipper, regaled Brittany with tales of why he loves Ruby & Rails, his change of mindset on being an open source maintainer and how a post-install hook can inspire even the most grumpy of developers.

  • Episode 288: 288: NPR for Geeks with Dan Benjamin

    September 26th, 2019  |  38 mins 42 secs

    Brittany is delighted to have Dan Benjamin, podcaster, writer, software developer, and old school Rails aficionado on the show. He is the founder of the 5by5 Podcast Network and Fireside, a podcast hosting and analytics platform.

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    Episode 287: 287: Recruitment on Rails with Brian Mariani

    September 17th, 2019  |  37 mins 16 secs

    Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm based in Boston. He joined Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn & key interview tips.

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    Episode 286: 286: SQL Smart with Nancy Sheleheda

    September 10th, 2019  |  30 mins 28 secs

    Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.

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    Episode 285: 285: Bikeshedding with Steph Viccari

    September 3rd, 2019  |  28 mins 16 secs

    Steph Viccari, co-host of the Bikeshed and developer at thoughtbot, shared her insights on developer bootcamps, starting out as a developer, the state of Rails, podcasting and her first experience as a consultant.

  • Episode 284: 284: Community Driven Development: Sustainable Open Source with Christine Zagrobelny

    August 29th, 2019  |  24 mins 59 secs

    Over two years and 978 commits, Christine Zagrobelny recounts the evolution of an open source RoR project built for New Sanctuary Coalition, an NYC immigrant rights organization, to help them meet exponentially growing demand for their services.

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    Episode 283: 283: Kill All Mutants with Dave Aronson

    August 22nd, 2019  |  24 mins 35 secs

    How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.

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    Episode 282: 282: Rails on Windows is Fabulous with Scott Hanselman

    August 12th, 2019  |  38 mins 22 secs

    Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience with WSL2.

  • Episode 281: 281: Automating & Shipping Value with Sean Devine

    August 6th, 2019  |  35 mins 26 secs

    Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.

  • Episode 280: 280: Past Rubies, Google Pay and Turbolinks!

    July 23rd, 2019  |  21 mins 35 secs

    Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and and why Turbolinks can be awesome!