The Ruby on Rails Podcast
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The Ruby on Rails Podcast
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.
Recent Episodes
537 episodes
Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke
Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-t...
Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls
Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her busines...
Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea
Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s fr...
Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt
Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show...
Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
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Episode 532: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. Joe is known as the Hotwire Native guy - he helps Rails developers bu...
Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon
This year, I want to expand the show in a new direction. I want to hear from startups and companies that are building with Rails. Today's episode feat...
Episode 530: Ask Elise Anything hosted by Rachael Wright-Munn
In this episode, Elise responds to listener submitted questions on everything from her career journey to how cooking relates to coding. With special g...
Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.
Episode 528: Working In Tech With ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi
In the last few years, there’s been more awareness about ADHD in adults. We’ve learned that it’s more than hyperactivity and it’s not a deficit of att...
Episode 527: Evangelizing Rails with Irina Nazarova
We all love Ruby on Rails. You may remember that my first episode on this show was about whether Rails was still relevant. In the last few years, ther...
Episode 526: Rails World with Robby Russell
Nick and I recorded an episode at Rails World with Robby Russell. This is a test of new format we're running where we discuss Rails News. Robby joins...
Episode 525: Catching Up With Ruby Central with Marty Haught
Ruby Central has been a foundational part of the Ruby community since 2003. They organize Ruby Conf and Rails Conf and maintain critical Ruby infrastr...
Episode 524: Writing Code Using AI with Landon Gray
Large language models are everywhere now. They’re changing the way we work, from tools code completion tools like Copilot, to audio generation apps li...
Episode 523: Welcome Back, Nick Schwaderer
Our illustrious cohost Nick is back from parental leave! We talk about life as a parent and coder, committing to Ruby on Rails, being coworkers and fi...
Episode 522: Mentoring Junior Devs with Adam Cuppy
A recent focus of many in the community has been expanding the community. We all love Rails and want to create the best community possible. Part of th...
Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic
EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news ab...
Episode 520: Backend Accessibility with Hilary Stohs-Krause
In our last episode, we talked about Web Accessibility. But, did you know that there are accessibility concerns on the backend and in our interactions...
Episode 519: Joel Hawksley on Web Accessibility
Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy. For the last several years, he has been part of the...
Episode 518: Live From The Rails Conf Hallway Track!
While at Rails Conf, I caught up with several attendees and organizers to discuss their experiences. These quick interviews have been collected for th...
Episode 517: Rails Conf 2024 Crossover: Off The Rails
At Rails Conf 2024, I gathered several of our favorite ruby podcasters for a giant crossover episode! In this episode we have:
* Drew Bragg from...
Episode 516: Catching Up On The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino
Over the last year, the Rails Foundation has been hard at work on several initiatives. After a successful Rails World last year, they’ve been working...
Episode 515: Livestreaming Code On Twitch with Rachael Wright-Munn
I am very excited for today’s episode! Twitch is a livestreaming service where users can stream themselves to the internet. Twitch is known for video...
Episode 514: Rails Camp! With Bobbilee Hartman
There are so many Ruby events happening recently, that it can be hard to know which one to go to. Today we’re going to talk about a rather unique even...
Episode 513: Modern Rails Apps Ayush Newatia
Rails 7 and Hotwire have completely revolutionized server side Rails apps. Developers can now get much more reactivity with way less javascript, less...
Episode 512: RailsConf With Ufuk Kayserilioglu
RailsConf is coming up fast! The program committee has released the schedule and keynote speakers. Ufuk Kayserilioglu joins the show to talk about the...
Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel
You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a porta...
Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook
Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked...
Episode 509: The Future Of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit
Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing confer...
Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT ins...
Episode 507: Stephen Margheim on SQLite in Ruby on Rails Applications
If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might...
Episode 506: Unwinding Flakey Tests with Alan Ridlehoover & Fito von Zastrow
Fito and Alan are frequent RubyConf and RailsConf speakers on topics ranging from software complexity to resolving flaky specs. They joined the how to...
Episode 505: RailsConf CFP with Andy Croll
RailsConf is coming up fast and I can’t wait to see you all there! The CFP is open and the program committee is accepting proposals for talks for the...
Episode 504: Kaja Santro on Managing The WNB.rb Slack workspace
Kaja is the Slack Administrator for WNB.rb, a group of women and non-binary rubyists. She joined the show to talk about becoming the Slack Administrat...
Episode 503: Katya Dreyer-Oren on Ethical Software Development
What do we owe to each other? Over the last several years, the tech industry has had a reckoning about ethics within our industry. Katya Dreyer-Oren g...
Episode 502: New Years Resolutions with Jemma Issroff
Our cohost Jemma Issroff joined me to talk about my tenure as host so far, Jemma's work on Prism, fostering communities, building habits, how to be lu...
Episode 501: Ruby For All Crossover!
I joined Julie and Andrew from Ruby For All to talk about Test Driven Development, attending conferences, and using TDD as a thinking tool.. This epis...
Episode 500: Episode 500 Bonanza!
Can you believe its been 500 Episodes? What a wild ride. It's been so much fun to take over the show and to get to be a part of this history. Our co-h...
Episode 499: The Ruby on Rails Podcast X Coding Coders
Drew Bragg is the host of Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It. We caught up to bring this special collaboration.
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Code And Th...
Episode 498: Remote Ruby X The Ruby on Rails Podcast
I joined Chris and Jason on Remote Ruby to talk about podcasting, the beauty of the Ruby language, Ruby outside of Rails, and why you should probably...