Ruby On Rails Podcast

Brittany is joined by the co-organizers of Rubyconf Mini: co-host, Jemma, and Emily Samp. The trio discussed how inclusivity was laced into the event, their futures as conference planners and the adoration of Jemma's Nana. In the back half of the episode, they discuss their expectations and reaction to the announcement of The Rails Foundation. Show Notes & Links: Episode 434 All Things RubyConf Mini (Brittany + Jemma) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/434) The Rails Foundation](https://rubyonrails.org/foundation) The Ruby on Rails Podcast Listener Feedback Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdira0SzpFYUWkfZJzk5yloi6sKUGxcTPLE3V70RDjQOfwppw/viewform) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-

Live from Providence, RI, it is the Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel! Panelists from different community podcasts come together to discuss their experiences at the conference, field questions from the audience attendees and of course, mention their upcoming talks they were giving at the conference. Moderated By: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/) Panelists: Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Drew Bragg, Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Joël Quenneville, The Bikeshed (https://www.bikeshed.fm/) Julie J, Ruby for All (https://www.rubyforall.com/) A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf Mini for making this panel happen: Jemma Issroff, Emily Samp and Andy Croll. Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own doma

It's back and now a tradition! It's the Holiday Gift Guide episode where Brittany and Nick share their picks for gifts that might appeal to a developer in your life. Brittany's Picks Philips Hue: Smart lighting (https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us) Gold Neutral Recorder Button (https://www.amazon.com/Neutral-Recorder-Recordable-Education-Batteries/dp/B07MQXQWBB) Cirkul Water Bottle | Brittany's Referral Link to Save $ (https://drinkcirkul.com/share/Brittany-V6240301580378) Felix Gray Blue Light Glasses (https://felixgray.com/collections/blue-light-glasses) Wizard Zines by Julia Evans (https://wizardzines.com/) Nick's Picks Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs (https://rebuilding-rails.com/) AWS IoT Button (https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/) Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought (https://roamresearch.com/) Steam Deck (https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck) Lava Lamp (https://www.lavalamp.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and service

Kevin Su ditched college to pursue the venture-backed startup dream, but found his calling running a small, bootstrapped and profitable SaaS business called Clearscope. Together, Brittany, Brian and Kevin discuss why Rails is the perfect launching pad for SaaS businesses, the tech stack Clearscope has chosen and how they approach hiring. Show Notes & Links: Clearscope (https://www.clearscope.io/) Kalzumeus Software - patio11 (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) Start Small, Stay Small (https://startsmall.com/) Senior/Lead Full-stack Software Engineers at Clearscope (https://angel.co/company/clearscopeio/jobs/2261957-full-stack-software-engineers-all-levels) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.

Roman Turner is a classically trained French chef turned developer. He's now a Software Developer at America's Test Kitchen. He and Brittany discuss personal branding, attracting and keeping members in the Ruby/Rails community and advice for junior developers seeking their first role. Show Notes & Links: America's Test Kitchen (https://www.americastestkitchen.com/) Jeweler’s Apprentice (http://jewelers-apprentice.com/) Roman (@scoop_law) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/scoop_law) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refacto

An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results. Show Notes & Links: Episode 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/307) Sierra Rails (https://www.sierrarails.com/) Exposing your Ignorance by Sierra Rails (https://anchor.fm/sierra-rails) Dave Paola (@dpaola2) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/dpaola2) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring

Meg Gutshall is a Ruby on Rails application developer at Penn Medicine with a passion for open source. Brittany asks Meg about her love of Virtual Coffee, her fond memories of Mike Rogers and her role as a core team member of Ruby for Good. Show Notes & Links: Penn Medicine (https://www.pennmedicine.org/) Virtual Coffee (https://virtualcoffee.io/) Ruby for Good (https://rubyforgood.org/) meg_gutshall - Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/meg_gutshall) meg-gutshall (Meg Gutshall) - GitHub (https://github.com/meg-gutshall) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and

Object Shapes is merged and headed to Ruby 3.2! Fresh off of her world tour, Jemma catches up with Brittany about RubyKaigi, Euroku and Rails SaaS. After talking about Rubyconf Mini plans, the pair discuss the new Data.define feature coming to Ruby 3.2 as well. Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf Mini Tickets (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rubyconf-mini-providence-rhode-island-registration-414698754137) Implement Object Shapes #6386 by jemmaissroff (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6386) Add Data class implementation: Simple immutable value object #6353 by zverok (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6353) New in Ruby 3.2 - Data.define (https://dev.to/baweaver/new-in-ruby-32-datadefine-2819) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeyba

Andy Croll is back and he has something to say. Brittany and Andy chat from their cupboards about My First Ruby Friend, bringing yourself to work, Apple note driven development and Rubyconf Mini. They spend the rest of the episode on Andy's podcast pitch. Show Notes & Links: My First Ruby Friend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll (https://andycroll.com/ruby/) Rubyconf Mini 2022 (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Andy Croll (@andycroll) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/andycroll?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the wo

Reunited and it feels so good! Friend of the show and host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, Drew Bragg, is back today. Together, he and Brittany discuss the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference and their goals for attending. They also hash out Drew's game show talk for Rubyconf Mini and how he is straddling a Rails upgrade and ViewComponent upgrade at work. Show Notes & Links: Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Rubyconf Mini (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) ViewComponent (https://viewcomponent.org/) MaterialUI (https://mui.com/) Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/drbragg) Paul Bahr (@PaulEditsPods) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/PaulEditsPods) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—whe

After diving into CrossFit and their favorite comfort foods, Nick and Brittany talk all things conferences: RubyKaigi 2022, Rails SaaS and Rubyconf 2022. Nick ends the episode by sharing some cool Rails upgrade tooling he is working on. Show Notes & Links: CrossFit (https://www.crossfit.com/) RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Rubyconf 2022 (https://rubyconf.org/) Rubyconf Mini 2022 (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popula

Brittany returns to the the Rubber Duck Dev Show! In this episode, Chris and Creston discuss the different viewpoints and objectives for engineering managers vs. product managers with Brittany Martin & Josh Gaastra. Show Notes & Links: Rubber Duck Dev Show | Wednesdays at 8p EST (https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.

Joel Schlundt is the CTO of TextUs and Brittany's boss. After diving into two origin stories, the pair discuss the Senior Backend Engineer role they are hiring for, applications they never want to build again and the importance of off-sites for remote teams. They cap the conversation off with a horror story. Announcements The Ruby on Rails Podcast Store (https://the-ruby-on-rails-podcast.myspreadshop.com/all?listModeOverride=DESIGN) Fun original designs like “Tell Me Your Developer Origin Story”, “Ruby is Badass”, “Ruby on Tails” and “the Established in Rails” series in shirts, hoodies, magnets, stickers and bandanas. Net proceeds of store purchases benefit Steptember, to raise funds for research and innovation for cerebral palsy. From Wednesday, September 14th through Saturday, September 17th 2022, all customers get free standard shipping on all orders. This does include international standard shipping. Shop here (https://the-ruby-on-rails-podcast.myspreadshop.com/all?listModeOverride=DESIGN). Show Notes &

Jemma, one of the co-organizers of RubyConf Mini, chats with Brittany on why she decided to organize RubyConf Mini (November 15 - November 17, 2022 in Providence, Rhode Island). The two co-hosts discuss CFPs, organizing challenges and more importantly, who should consider attending RubyConf Mini. They also celebrate Jemma getting her Japanese visa for RubyKaigi 2022. Show Notes & Links: RubyConf Mini (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the wo

The tech industry is in unprecedented times with the amount of layoffs happening. Brittany and Brian share their personal layoff stories and offer some advice to laid off employees, retained employees and companies. While empathizing with the shock layoffs cause, the duo offer some silver linings. Show Notes & Links: Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs-2022/) Layoffs.fyi Tracker (http://layoffs.fyi/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all po

Brittany welcomes John Crepezzi, founder of All Aboard Bootcamp, on to the show. After geeking out over John's storied career path through Ruby (including the ISMs at Genius) the two dive into why and how John created a free Ruby/Rails/JS bootcamp for under-represented groups. Show Notes & Links: GitHub - ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube: Ruby Date Recurrence Library (https://github.com/ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube) The Genius ISM’s (https://www.dugcampbell.com/the-genius-isms/) All Aboard Bootcamp (https://allaboardbootcamp.com/) John's Twitch Stream (https://www.twitch.tv/seejohnrun) John Crepezzi (@seejohnrun) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/seejohnrun?lang=en) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Mirror Placement (ht

Mina Slater is a developer on Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps and SRE team and serves as a Scholarship program organizer with Ruby Central. Mina details why it is humbling to embrace the cloud and what SRE means. She and Brittany then share their hot takes consulting versus working on a product team. Show Notes & Links: thoughtbot Mission Control (https://thoughtbot.com/mission-control) Site Reliability Engineering: Google (https://sre.google/) Mina Slater (@minar528) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/minar528) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashbo

After congratulating Jemma on her talk acceptance to RubyKaigi, the duo discuss how to handle when a co-worker is departing. From handling communication to acknowledging the importance of the departing, it's a topic that should resonate with many developers. They wrap up exclaiming over first #rubyfriend. Show Notes & Links: RubyKaigi 2022 (https://rubykaigi.org/2022/) Hire Me: I'm Excellent at Quitting by Brittany Martin - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0yGI7sKgI) first #rubyfriend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails). Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great

Brittany guested on the Rubber Duck Dev Show, a livestream with two Rubyists (Chris & Creston) who chat live about all the aspects of development. They talk over the origins of how Brittany became the host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast and their thoughts and struggles on project management. Show Notes & Links: Rubber Duck Dev Show | Wednesdays at 8p EST (https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/rorpodcast) Monitor your apps from A to Z: error tracking, performance insights, server metrics, uptime pages, custom dashboards, and more. AppSignal works for all popular Ruby frameworks and automatically instruments and creates beautiful dashboards fo

Irina Nazarova is the CEO of Evil Martians, a consulting company known as authors of PostCSS, AnyCable, imgproxy, and many blog posts and tutorials. She and Brittany discuss both her developer and CEO origin stories, sustainable opensource, leading really talented developers and Google Apps Script. Show Notes & Links: Evil Martians (https://evilmartians.com/) whitequark/parser: A Ruby parser. - GitHub (https://github.com/whitequark/parser) All of the Evil Martians's Open Source Libraries (https://github.com/evilmartians) Google Apps Script (https://developers.google.com/apps-script) Irina Nazarova (@inazarova) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/inazarova) Support Ukraine: Nova Ukraine (https://novaukraine.org/) Razom for Ukraine (https://www.razomforukraine.org/) Sponsored By: Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when