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 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee

    March 5th, 2019  |  28 mins 11 secs

    Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

  • Episode 262: 262: Reasonably Up-To-Date with Jan Krutisch

    February 27th, 2019  |  23 mins 12 secs

    Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers.

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    Episode 261: 261: Domain Driven Design & Bots with José Albornoz

    February 18th, 2019  |  43 mins 20 secs

    Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place.

  • Episode 260: 260: Rails Performance with Nate Berkopec

    February 14th, 2019  |  26 mins 31 secs

    Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.

  • Episode 259: 259: Continuous Deployment (dpl) with Hiro Asari

    February 8th, 2019  |  17 mins 34 secs

    Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI.

  • Episode 258: 258: Run.rb and Mental Health Awareness with Jason Charnes

    January 31st, 2019  |  23 mins 59 secs

    Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community.

  • Episode 257: 257: Apprenticing at thoughtbot with Sarah Dawson

    January 26th, 2019  |  18 mins 38 secs

    Brittany is on the road in NYC! Brittany took a coffee break to chat with Sarah Dawson, their newest apprentice about thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, the thin line between junior developer and established developer and her initial reaction to Rails.

  • Episode 256: 256: Empowering Founders with Emily Wazlak from Shine Registry

    January 12th, 2019  |  19 mins 36 secs

    Emily is the CEO of Shine Registry, a startup that’s working on reshaping tradition to increase gender equity in entrepreneurship. They discuss prototyping an application quickly in RoR and being a non-technical founder.

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    Episode 255: 255: Submit Your Railsconf CFP with Marty Haught

    January 3rd, 2019  |  19 mins 38 secs

    On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions.

  • Episode 254: 254: Ruby Support for AWS Lambda with Alex Wood

    December 27th, 2018  |  24 mins 20 secs

    Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime.

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    Episode 253: 253: Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen

    December 18th, 2018  |  31 mins 15 secs

    Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community.

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    Episode 252: 252: Confident Ruby on Rails Testing with Jason Swett

    December 5th, 2018  |  34 mins 21 secs

    Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint.

  • Episode 251: 251: An Honest Take on GraphQL with Ankita Gupta

    November 20th, 2018  |  18 mins 51 secs

    Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application.

  • Episode 250: 250: Migrating Twitter from Rails & Powering Up with Linkerd with William Morgan

    November 11th, 2018  |  28 mins 58 secs

    William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices.

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    Episode 249: 249: Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 with Eileen M. Uchitelle

    November 5th, 2018  |  27 mins 12 secs

    Eileen M. Uchitelle, better known as @eileencodes, came on to the show to discuss Github's upgrade to 5.2.1 and supporting multiple databases in Rails 6.

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    Episode 248: 248: Diving Into Ruby Weekly with Peter Cooper

    October 18th, 2018  |  36 mins 22 secs

    Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly.