The Ruby on Rails Podcast
with Elise Shaffer
Elise Shaffer · David Hill
Show overview
The Ruby on Rails Podcast has been publishing since 2009, and across the 17 years since has built a catalogue of 554 episodes. That works out to roughly 320 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 25 min and 38 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 17 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2009, with 140 episodes published. Published by David Hill.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 554 episodesEpisode 554: The future of Rails with Obie Fernandez
Episode 553: The Ruby User Forum with Javier Cervantes
Episode 552: Hatchbox and GoRails in the age of AI with Chris Oliver and Collin Jilbert
Episode 551: Practical Hotwire with Jeremy Smith
Episode 550: XORuby with Jim Remsik
Episode 549: ChicagoRuby with Anton Tkachov and Michelle Yuen
Episode 548: MCP + Generators with Andy Andrea and Rachael Wright-Munn
Episode 547: Special Guest Andy Croll
Episode 546: Gearing up for Rails World, with Amanda Perino
Episode 545: Post RubyConf conversation with Neha Abraham
Episode 544: RubyConf 2026 Hallway Track
Episode 543: Mike Dalton and Authentication Hell
Episode 542: Kyle D'Oliveira and the Fibonacci Funhouse
Episode 541: Markus Schirp and Mutation Testing
Episode 540: Jeremy Smith and Blue Ridge Ruby
Episode 539: Travis Dockter and Blastoff Rails
Episode 538: A New Host Has Appeared!
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-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end Show Notes * https://userlist.com/ * https://slowandsteadypodcast.com/ * https://bsky.app/profile/benediktdeicke.com Sponsors Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails (http://fireside.fm/rails) to get started. Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at flippercloud.io/rails (https://www.flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
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 business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails) Show Notes * www.betterwithbecky.com * www.gram.betterwithbecky.com Sponsors Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails (http://fireside.fm/rails) to get started. Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at http://flippercloud.io/rails (http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
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 from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails Show Notes * https://judoscale.com/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/ * https://bsky.app/profile/adamlogic.com Sponsors Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails (http://fireside.fm/rails) to get started. Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at http://flippercloud.io/rails (http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.