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 Elise Shaffer, Brian Mariani, Jemma Issroff and Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.

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Episodes

  • Episode 403: Unlocking More Plasma Supply with Damian Galarza

    February 2nd, 2022  |  24 mins

    Damian Galarza is the VP of Engineering at Buoy Software. Buoy is building software for good — connected intelligence that unlocks more plasma supply. Brittany, Brian and Damian discuss scaling engineering culture and reflect on technical decisions in a post Rails 7 world.

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    Episode 402: UX Hot Takes with Pancakes (Nikki LeServe)

    January 26th, 2022  |  25 mins 12 secs

    What is an Engineering Lead without her UX Designer? Nikki "Pancakes" LeServe, Senior UX Designer at Textus, joined Brittany to discuss her UX origin story and to respond to Brittany's controversial UX theories. Should design by committee die? Should Bootstrap ever be used? Should some stuff be designed to be difficult to use? Tune in.

  • Episode 401: From Frontend to Fullstack with Shameel Abdullah

    January 19th, 2022  |  28 mins 49 secs

    Shameel Abdullah is a Senior Developer at Shopify. Starting his career with frontend development, he has transitioned to a fullstack developer, working with Rails across multiple startups. He, Nick and Brittany chat about GraphQL and frontend opinions.

  • Episode 400: Nothing But Gold Stars All The Way with Collin Jilbert

    January 12th, 2022  |  25 mins 57 secs

    Joining Brittany to celebrate episode 400(!), Collin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails Developer at GoRails. They discuss why he committed to Rails so early in his career, his various ambitious projects (Ruby Radar, fleur de ruby), his love of the community and what his new role will entail.

  • Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma

    January 5th, 2022  |  30 mins 40 secs

    Will Ruby 3.1 drop on Christmas (spoiler: it did!)? Jemma and Brittany catch up with the changes from this past year, talk about some resolutions they are planning for 2022 and whether the pursuit for mediocrity should be one of them. Oh yes, they also touch on the release of Rails 7.

  • Episode 398: Audiophile: The Meta Episode with Paul Bahr

    December 29th, 2021  |  31 mins 38 secs

    It's a The Ruby on Rails Podcast x Remote Ruby collab! Brittany is joined with Jason Charnes and Andrew Mason so they can interview the editor of their shows, Paul Bahr, on how he got into podcast editing and the tools you need to get started.

  • Episode 397: Game Development in Ruby (Super Bombinhas) with Victor David Santos

    December 22nd, 2021  |  25 mins 23 secs

    Victor David Santos is a fullstack Engineer at Tremendous and the creator of the Ruby platformer, Super Bombinhas. Victor joined Brittany to share insights on game development in Ruby, how to publish a game to Steam and how generous the gaming community can be.

  • Episode 396: Advice My Uncle Told Me with Zachery Hostens

    December 15th, 2021  |  25 mins 34 secs

    Zachery Hostens is a Senior Rails Engineer at TextUs. He is a self taught techie to his core, who tries to have his hands in all the cookie jars. He and Brittany discuss what it was like working as Wells Fargo as a Rails engineer, how he landed at TextUs and some strategies on finding the hidden Rails developers out there.

  • Episode 395: The Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany & Nick)

    December 8th, 2021  |  30 mins 35 secs

    It's that magical time of the year again. Brittany and Nick catch up on Nick's experience at Rubyconf then dive into their holiday gift picks for 2021. Do you agree? Have more picks? Tweet to @brittjmartin and @Schwad4HD14 with your thoughts.

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    Episode 394: Rubyconf 2021 Recap: Live + Virtual (Brittany & Jemma)

    December 1st, 2021  |  30 mins 16 secs

    Brittany and Jemma record right after Rubyconf 2021 so they could share their experiences and favorite talks both in-person and virtual. Oh, also, this is now a running podcast.

  • Episode 393: The Rubyconf 2021 Live Podcast Panel

    November 24th, 2021  |  51 mins 17 secs

    Recorded live from Rubyconf 2021 in Denver, CO with an audience! Panelists from The Ruby on Rails Podcast, Code with Jason and Remote Ruby gathered to chat about why they were excited to attend Rubyconf, favorite episodes and to field listener questions.

  • Episode 392: I'm Actually Totally Happy (Brittany & Brian)

    November 17th, 2021  |  28 mins 41 secs

    No holiday break on the recruiting front! Brittany and Brian catch up on the Rails recruiting trends. They discuss how companies need to up the ante now that so many are remote first, how interviews should be structured and whether it is worth getting in the door, if it is not for the role you want.

  • Episode 391: Announcing Mocktail with Justin Searls

    November 10th, 2021  |  38 mins 57 secs

    Justin Searls helped start Test Double—a software agency of experienced developers who work with clients to build great software together, as a team. He gave Brittany the scoop on Mocktail, an opinionated alternative to minitest's mocks, rr, mocha, and rspec-mocks. As a bonus: he offers his insights and advice on being a confident speaker.

  • Episode 390: Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker

    November 3rd, 2021  |  31 mins 49 secs

    Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of OmbuLabs, the Ruby on Rails development shop behind FastRuby.io. He comes back to the podcast to talk about code quality: what it is, what it is perceived to be and what its like to maintain a few Ruby code quality gems, including ruby-critic and skunk.

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    Episode 389: Dev Ops Lead with Jason Taylor

    October 27th, 2021  |  25 mins 39 secs

    Jason Taylor returns! Together, Brittany and Jason discuss his recent promotion to Dev Ops Lead at TextUs, how fluent in the stack you need to be to make operational decisions and the Rubyconf sessions they are excited to attend.

  • Episode 388: Ruby is Still a Diamond with Emma Hyde

    October 20th, 2021  |  36 mins 25 secs

    After Emma's blog post, "Ruby is Still a Diamond", took the software engineering world by storm, Brittany and Jemma invited Emma on to the show (her podcast debut!) to ruminate why she continues to be excited about Ruby, why you should invest the effort into upgrading to Ruby 3.0, the differences between parallelism & concurrency and an introduction to Ractors.