Ruby On Rails Podcast

Elise Shaffer is a trans woman and Staff Software Engineer who loves Ruby and Ruby on Rails. She is also the new host of this podcast! Brittany announces her retirement from the show after a five year run as the host. In this special episode, the pair discuss Brittany's favorite moments from her run, get to know Elise and discuss any upcoming changes for the show. Show Notes: The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 228: From the ashes... (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/228) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 379: MEGA Crossover Episode (The Bike Shed x Rails with Jason x Remote Ruby x The Ruby on Rails Podcast) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/379) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 454: Rubyconf @ Home: Hanami Core Team (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/454) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 469: Railsconf 2023: A Ruby Community Podcast Live! (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/469) Connect with Elise on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliseshaffer/) Elise's Personal Site (https://eliseshaffer.com/) Contact Brit

Special co-host Kevin Murphy joined Brittany this week to interview Allison McMillan and Chelsea Kaufman, co-chairs of the upcoming Rubyconf 2023 happening in San Diego. The quartet discussed lessons learned from Railsconf 2023, the approach to thinking about and planning this year's Rubyconf and what is new and different at the event. Show Notes: Buy Tickets to Rubyconf 2023 (https://rubyconf.org/register) Ruby Central (https://rubycentral.org/) Allison McMillan's website (https://daydreamsinruby.com/) Chelsea Kaufman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelskaufman/) Kevin Murphy's website (https://kevinjmurphy.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/

Rails World needed a website! Did you want to be on the small team that helps build it? Shami Tomita and Eric Halverson certainly did and so they came on to the show to talk about their experience and the tech stack behind the conferencing app. Backed by Daniel Rassiner and Cody Norman, the crew talked about supporting Juniors and conference tips. Show Notes: Rails World (https://rubyonrails.org/world) CasaVolunteerTracking.org (https://casavolunteertracking.org/) The Agency of Learning (https://pairing-app-aol.herokuapp.com/) Eric Halverson (@elhalvers) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/elhalvers) Eric on Github (https://github.com/elhalvers) Eric on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elhalverson/) Shami (@Shami941) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/Shami941) Shami on Github (https://github.com/ShamiTomita) Shami on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shami-tomita-rodriguez/) Daniel on Github (https://github.com/toyhammered) Daniel on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drassiner/) Cody's Personal Site (htt

If you love taking about databases, this is the episode for you. Ahead of the launch of his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Andrew Atkinson joined the show with special guest co-host, Pat Bair, to talk about why he wrote a book, why he focused on PostgreSQL and his favorite feature from the upcoming 7.1 release. Show Notes: Landing page and newsletter signup for the book “High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails” (https://pgrailsbook.com/) Andrew's Tweet Announcing Beta for the Book (https://twitter.com/andatki/status/1696933498219569615) Andrew's Personal blog on Postgres/Rails/general topics (https://andyatkinson.com/) Rideshare Rails API app used for book examples/exercises (https://github.com/andyatkinson/rideshare) Pg_scripts repo (https://github.com/andyatkinson/pg_scripts) Andrew’s Postgres and Rails presentations and podcast appearances on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@andatki/playlists) Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) / X (https://twitter.com/andatki?lang=en) Andrew on GitHub (https://g

Nick is heading to Rails World to represent the show and he has a ticket to giveaway to a lucky listener! The pair talk about doing hard things first, the renaming of MRSK to Kamal and then a random deep dive on our show's archives. Check out the show notes for giveaway details! Show Notes: The Ruby on Rails Podcast RailsWorld Ticket Contest | Complete by September 2nd, 2023 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmKPM4k7T7tuid-ZYe5bhP9-136qtVObUKsO5qIo_dX3McSA/viewform) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) scarpe-diem Discord Server (https://discord.com/invite/Ca5EHSsGYp) Github | Rename project to Kamal (https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/pull/423) The Ruby on Rails Podcast | 3: Tobias Luettke (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/97) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less tim

Ariel Fogel is a software engineer with an enduring soft spot in his heart for Ruby and Rails. Since graduating from Dev Bootcamp, he has found himself driven by finding ways to improve the quality of education for coders and non-coders alike. Brittany and Ariel discuss how engineers can level up in how they learn. Show Notes: Ariel's Personal Site (https://fogel.dev) Agency of Learning (https://agencyoflearning.com) Ariel on Github (https://github.com/afogel) Ariel on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielfogel/) Remote Ruby: Hackathon - Strada - Rails World (https://remoteruby.com/238) daisyUI — Tailwind CSS Components (https://daisyui.com/) activerecord-hackery/ransack: Object-based searching (https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack) joshmn /ahoy_captain (https://github.com/joshmn/ahoy_captain) Rails Hackathon (https://railshackathon.com/) Introducing the Rails Luminary Awards: Nominations Now Open (https://rubyonrails.org/2023/8/8/introducing-rails-luminaries) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https

After celebrating Jemma's newly established status as a Ruby core member, Brittany and Jemma discuss what is happening with Brittany at work, including taking some customer calls. The two hosts also talk about the important skill of being able to know your audience and how to communicate to non-technical stakeholders. They wrap up discussing AI fitness. Show Notes: Ruby: Propose Kevin Newton and Jemma Issroff as core committers (https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19747) ruby/yarp on Github (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Fitbod (https://fitbod.me/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! FastRuby.io (https://www.fastruby.io/monthly-rai

Even though not a ton has changed in the last 4 months since Brittany and Brian last recorded the State of Rails Hiring, this hiring market is both awful and awesome depending on who you talk to. The duo dig into AI generated cover letters, the good and bad symptoms of what is happening in the economy and specific tactics to help get engineers and employers over the hump. Show Notes: Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/460) Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! Atl

There comes a time in almost every software application when it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Robby Russell, CEO of Planet Argon, joins the show to guide Brittany on the steps to take to decommission a Ruby on Rails application. The pair also touch on the idea of how small dev teams would benefit from periodically bringing in "guests" to their codebase. Show Notes: Planet Argon (https://www.planetargon.com/?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) The Railsconf 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/420) 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/331) How to Decommission Your Ruby on Rails Application | Planet Argon (https://blog.planetargon.com/blog/entries/how-to-decommission-your-ruby-on-rails-application?utm_source=rubyonrails-podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=show-notes) Sunset A Rails Application | Planet Argon (https://www.planetargon.com/services/sunset-a-rails-application?utm_source=

Nick Maloney is co-founder of The Gnar Company, a full service product consulting shop. Nick and Brittany discuss Gnar's project for the State of Massachusetts to build out an automated background check system. Nick shares why Rails is their default stack and why he is particularly impressed with the direction of the front-end happening in Rails 7. Show Notes: The Gnar Company (https://www.thegnar.com/) The Gnar Company Blog (https://www.thegnar.com/blog) Nick Maloney on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasmaloney/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!

Brittany and Nick sync up after Nick's one-night-only talk at Brighton Ruby 2023. It wouldn't be a recap without the conference organizer so they were lucky to find Andy Croll free to fill them in on why he continues to run the event and his thoughts on the uptick on conference attendance. Show Notes: Brighton Ruby Conference (https://brightonruby.com/) Andy Croll's personal site (https://andycroll.com/) scarpe-diem Discord Server (https://discord.com/invite/Ca5EHSsGYp) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!

Andrew Culver is a long-time Rails developer and creator of Bullet Train, a SaaS framework for Rails, and the organizer of The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece. Brittany was excited to have him on the show to talk about his hacker origins, his latest event in Athens, and to discuss why Rails World sold out in 45 minutes. Show Notes: Bullet Train: The Open Source Ruby on Rails SaaS Framework (https://bullettrain.co/) The Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Laravel Spark (https://spark.laravel.com/) Photos from Andrew's Hacker Phase (https://imgur.com/a/lvo7DcK) Indie Rails: Michael Buckbee - Balancing Marketing & Development While Building Wafris (https://www.indierails.com/11) Rails World - 2023 — October 5 & 6 (https://rubyonrails.org/world) Andrew Culver (@andrewculver) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/andrewculver?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with do

Mere minutes before this episode was recorded, YARP was merged! Kevin Newton joins Brittany and Jemma this week to share the exciting news. The trio discuss the follow up steps for YARP, whether a marketing push for adoption will be needed and how Kevin and Jemma partnered on the initiative. Show Notes: Episode 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/385) ruby/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Mirror ruby/yarp into ruby/ruby #7964 (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7964) RubyConf TH 2023 (https://rubyconfth.com/) Kevin Newton (@kddnewton) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/kddnewton?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, job systems, authentication

Megan Marquardt-Ray is an Engineering Manager from Included Health. She leads a team of software engineers who build out mobile and web experiences that help people get to high quality healthcare. Before Included Health, she worked at an education startup, bloc, where she first stepped into a managing role. She and Brittany talk about what it means to be a part of a software community, how to draft career ladders, hiring and how to ensure your engineers are progressing. Show Notes: Included Health - Healthcare Navigation & Virtual Care (https://includedhealth.com/) Included Health Careers (https://includedhealth.com/careers/) Megan Marquardt-Ray on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-marquardt/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started

Rocky Mountain Ruby is baaaaaack! Conference organizer, Spike Ilacqua, joined Brittany to discuss why he was bringing the conference back to life in Boulder, CO on October 5th and 6th, 2023. They talk about the advice he has gotten, the open CFP and funding the conference. The wrap up talking about how Spike finds AI kinda cool and kinda scary. Show Notes: The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/) Sponsor Rocky Mountain Ruby (https://rockymtnruby.dev/sponsorship/) Rocky Mountain Ruby CFP (https://rockymtnruby.dev/#cfp) Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/) Spike's Blog (https://stuff-things.net/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/)

Former host of this podcast, Kyle Daigle is the Chief Operating Officer at GitHub. Kyle joined GitHub in 2013 and built and scaled the Ecosystem Engineering teams and worked on the acquisitions of Semmle, npm, and others. He now oversees culture, operations, and communications for the business. He fills Brittany in on all of the exciting initiatives happening at GitHub: GitHub Accelerator, GitHub Fund, GitHub Sponsors and their new research on developer workflow and productivity with AI. Show Notes: 344: Strategic Programs & Arctic Code Vault @ Github with Kyle Daigle (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/343) GitHub Copilot (https://github.com/features/copilot) Arctic Code Vault (https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/) GitHub Accelerator (https://accelerator.github.com/) GitHub Fund (https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-by-developers-for-developers/) GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors) Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience (https://github.blog/202

Making his podcast debut, Cody Norman is a former Loan Officer and current Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. He enjoys mentoring, working with early career developers and is an Engineering Mentor at The Agency of Learning. He joins Brittany to discuss personal branding, the importance of showing up every day and how he approaches mentoring early career developers. Show Notes: Cody Norman's Blog (https://www.codynorman.com/) First Ruby Friend: Find a mentor in the Ruby community (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) The Agency of Learning (https://agencyoflearning.com/) cnorm35 - Cody Norman - Twitter (https://twitter.com/cnorm35?lang=en) Cody Norman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-norman-26832027/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes, you can see for yourself. Honeybadger automatically hooks into popular web frameworks, jo

Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program. Show Notes: thoughtbot (https://thoughtbot.com/) Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots (https://www.giantrobots.fm/) Mission Control's AWS Platform Guide (https://thoughtbot.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/APG/overview) mrsked / mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) thoughtbot Incubator (https://thoughtbot.com/incubator) victori_ousg - Victoria Guido / Twitter (https://twitter.com/victori_ousg?lang=en) Victoria Guido (@vguido@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@vguido) Joe Ferris (@joeferris) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/joeferris?lang=en) Joe Ferris (@jferris@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@jferris) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.

The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP. Show Notes: RubyKaigi 2023 (https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) Field Report: RubyKaigi (https://blog.testdouble.com/field-reports/ruby-kaigi/) Shopify/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser (https://github.com/ruby/yarp) Stan Lo (https://dev.to/st0012) Rbspy (https://jvns.ca/juliasections/rbspy/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your customers happy. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!

Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat. Show Notes: Shogun (https://getshogun.com/) Geekbot - Run standup meetings in Slack (https://geekbot.com) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) ChatGPT (https://openai.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. It’s a suite of monitoring tools specifically for devs. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free!