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 247: 247: Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 with Javan Makhmali

    October 11th, 2018  |  15 mins 8 secs

    Action Text is a new framework coming to Rails 6 to make it easier to create, edit, and display rich text content within an app. Brittany invited Javan Makhmali, programmer at Basecamp, on to the show to get the scoop.

  • Episode 246: 246: Trust Arts, Trust Rails with Patrick FitzGerald and Danielle Greaves

    October 5th, 2018  |  16 mins 9 secs

    Brittany put her tickets aside to invite her web team at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Patrick FitzGerald (Director of eCommerce) and Danielle Greaves (Frontend Developer) on to the show.

  • Episode 245: 245: How I Got My First Pull Request into Rails with Nick Schwaderer

    September 26th, 2018  |  25 mins 48 secs

    Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core.

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    Episode 244: 244: Rails Community Survey 2018

    May 31st, 2018  |  35 mins 22 secs

    Kyle talks with Robby and Corinne from Planet Argon about what they learned with this year's Rails Community Survey.

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    Episode 243: 243: A Surprise Rails 5.2 Appears!

    April 11th, 2018  |  25 mins 11 secs

    Now that Rails 5.2 is production ready, Britt gives Kyle a tour of Rails 5.2 and all it's coolest, newest, hippest, frameworkiest new features.

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    Episode 242: 242: Let Me Get My Toolbox

    April 6th, 2018  |  31 mins

    This week the talented Brit talked to Christoph Olszowka about Ruby Toolbox, SimpleCov, and what's up with Ruby these days. What's in your toolbox?

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    Episode 241: 241: Upgrading Kickstarter to Rails 5 with Logan McDonald

    March 3rd, 2018  |  30 mins

    Logan McDonald joins Britt to discuss upgrading Kickstarter's main applications to Rails 5. They discuss the steps they took and lessons learned from the upgrade. If you're still riding Rails 4, this episode is definitely for you.

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    Episode 240: 240: Rails is Stimulating

    February 1st, 2018  |  33 mins 6 secs

    Coming back from hiatus, let's catch-up with Rails 5.1 & 5.2, the best parts of Rails in 2017, and the newest Javascript framework release of Stimulus.

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    Episode 239: 239: When You Type I Type We Type: Part 2

    November 26th, 2017  |  38 mins 14 secs

    This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part two of a two part episode.

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    Episode 238: 238: When I Type You Type We Type

    November 24th, 2017  |  27 mins

    This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part one of a two part episode.

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    Episode 237: 237: The One About Webhooks

    October 30th, 2017  |  38 mins 39 secs

    Brian wants to hear about webhooks so this is The Webhooks Episode. Learn about the tips and tricks for building a webhooks service, where you may run into trouble, and how to be a good consumer.

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    Episode 236: 236: No, You Refactor It!

    October 24th, 2017  |  29 mins 57 secs

    This week, Britt takes Kyle's spot and interviews Ben Orenstein about what he's been up to lately. Knight takes @r00k. Checkmate.

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    Episode 235: 235: Where's my remote?

    September 27th, 2017  |  38 mins 27 secs

    If you're remote, you know that time zones can be rough. This week, Kyle speaks to Joel about his recent remote experiences, how to unwind when you're remote, and the best way to eat a bunch of junk fair food.

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    Episode 234: 234: CSS Palooza

    September 20th, 2017  |  36 mins 12 secs

    Brian joins Kyle again this week to talk CSS, pre-compilers, and the greatest in front-end design. We talk Boostrap, SCSS, asset pipeline, and how far we've come on the front-end in the last few years.

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    Episode 233: 233: Alexa, Whispers, ActionCable, Oh My!

    September 10th, 2017  |  34 mins 56 secs

    Britt is back this week with Kyle to give an update on her conference talk experience. We talk using ActionCable in the wild, Encrypted Secrets, and how to get Alexa to whisper to you.

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    Episode 232: 232: The Ruby Identity

    August 22nd, 2017  |  43 mins 42 secs

    This week, Kyle chats with Wynn Netherland from Librato about his REST API history, what building APIs with Rails and Ruby is like these days, and what he thinks about GraphQL in its quest to be the new Platform.