The Ruby on Rails Podcast

<p>Brian Mariani is the founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm based in Boston. He joined Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn, key interview tips and if the fabled fullstack developer is still relevant.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.mirrorplacement.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails and Mobile Recruiters at Mirror</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Bootcamp" class="link" target="_blank">History of Dev Bootcamp</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.mirrorplacement.com/rails" class="link" target="_blank">Contact Mirror Placement (and Brian!)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirrorplacement" class="link" target="_blank">Brian Mariani on LinkedIn</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Datadog</strong></p> <p>Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.</p> <p>See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/ruby-application-performance-ts/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=RubyOnRailsPodcast-Tshirt">datadoghq.com/rubyonrails</a>.</p> <p><strong>Print Peppermint</strong></p> <p>Print Peppermint offers beautiful letterpress business cards with free custom design service. With a 100% Money-Back Guarantee, visit <a href="https://www.printpeppermint.com/letterpress-business-cards/">www.printpeppermint.com</a> and enter the code: "railabiglineofcode" at checkout for 10% off your order!</p>

<p>Nancy Sheleheda, Senior Director of Application Development at PCT, joined Brittany to discuss why it is important to learn SQL, to engage in a debate on differences between a developer and a DBA and introduce some great resources to leveling up on SQL.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/introduction-to-row-level-security-in-sql-2016" class="link" target="_blank">SQL Server Row Level Security</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-t-sql-dml" class="link" target="_blank">SQL Server Central Beginning T-SQL Stairway</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.pass.org/Community.aspx" class="link" target="_blank">SQL PASS local and virtual groups</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://tsql.solidq.com/books/tf3/" class="link" target="_blank">Itzik Ben-Gan’s T-SQL Fundamentals Third Edition</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://sqlsaturday.com/" class="link" target="_blank">SQL Saturdays</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.brentozar.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Brent Ozar's Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.brentozar.com/product/fundamentals-of-database-administration/" class="link" target="_blank">Brent Ozar | Fundamentals of Database Administration</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.brentozar.com/archive/category/production-database-administration/dba-training-plan/" class="link" target="_blank">Brent Ozar | DBA Training Plan</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/t-sql-programming/rbar-row-by-agonizing-row/" class="link" target="_blank">RBAR: ‘Row By Agonizing Row’</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/pbjnancy" class="link" target="_blank">Nancy Sheleheda on Twitter (@pbjnancy)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Datadog</strong></p> <p>Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications and logs. Datadog integrates seamlessly with more than 350 technologies, so you can track every layer of your complex microservice architecture, all in one place.</p> <p>See for yourself - start a 14-day free trial today and Datadog will send you a free T-shirt! Just visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/ruby-application-performance-ts/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=RubyOnRailsPodcast-Tshirt">datadoghq.com/rubyonrails</a>.</p>

<p>Steph Viccari, co-host of the Bikeshed and developer at thoughtbot, shared her insights on developer bootcamps, starting out as a developer, the state of Rails, podcasting and her first experience as a consultant.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://thoughtbot.com" class="link" target="_blank">thoughtbot</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bloc.io" class="link" target="_blank">Bloc</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.launchacademy.com" class="link" target="_blank">Launch Academy</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/6_0_release_notes.html" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes — Ruby on Rails Guides</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://bikeshed.fm" class="link" target="_blank">The Bike Shed Podcast</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.societyofgrownups.com" class="link" target="_blank">Society of Grownups | Financial Wellness Courses & Tools</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sviccari?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Steph Viccari on Twitter (@sviccari)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/_bikeshed" class="link" target="_blank">The Bike Shed on Twitter (@bikeshed)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr" class="link" target="blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Over two years and 978 commits, Christine Zagrobelny recounts the evolution of an open source RoR project built with and for New Sanctuary Coalition, an NYC immigrant rights organization, to help them meet exponentially growing demand for their services following the 2016 U.S. election. This podcast was recorded live with Brittany at Abstractions II.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.newsanctuarynyc.org/" class="link" target="_blank">New Sanctuary Coalition - NYC</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/devise" class="link" target="_blank">devise on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/jhund/filterrific" class="link" target="_blank">filterrific on Github </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/excid3/simple_calendar" class="link" target="_blank">simplecalendar on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/CZagrobelny/newsanctuaryasylum" class="link" target="blank">newsanctuaryasylum on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC" class="link" target="_blank">New Sanctuary Coalition (@NewSanctuaryNYC) · Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/cTe4MOY2Ex06i9" class="link" target="_blank">Kill All Mutants Abstractions Slides</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing" class="link" target="_blank">Mutation Testing</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.codosaur.us" class="link" target="_blank">Codosaurus, LLC</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/mbj/mutant" class="link" target="_blank">Mutant Gem on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/dgollahon/mutest" class="link" target="_blank">Mutest on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/seattlerb/heckle" class="link" target="_blank">Heckle on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DaveAronson" class="link" target="_blank">Dave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p>

<p>Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, technologist, podcaster, writer and a diversity advocate. He joined Britt to explain how Ruby on Rails on Windows can now be an excellent experience. Windows runs Linux at near-native speeds with an actual shipping Linux Kernel using WSL2, Ruby on Rails folks using Windows should do their work in WSL2.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.hanselman.com" class="link" target="_blank">Scott Hanselman Coder, Blogger, Teacher, Speaker, Author</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RubyOnRailsOnWindowsIsNotJustPossibleItsFabulousUsingWSL2AndVSCode.aspx" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/18.04" class="link" target="_blank">Install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.firsttimersonly.com" class="link" target="_blank">First Timers Only</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/shanselman" class="link" target="_blank">Scott on Twitter (@shanselman)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p>

<p>Sean Devine returns to the podcast to discuss a new feature he just shipped (Automatic Production Incident Detection) for XBE. Brittany and Sean discuss the technical implementation, why features should be built and automating your software to use the software you've already written.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="http://5by5.tv/rubyonrails/272" class="link" target="_blank">Episode 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/barelyknown" class="link" target="_blank">Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p> <p><strong>Indeed Prime</strong></p> <ul> <li>Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to <a href="https://www.indeedprime.com/ruby?sid=us_podcast&kw=rubyonrails&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=NP-Prime-us--website-">www.indeedprime.com/ruby</a>.</li> </ul>

<p>Brittany and Nick host another catchup episode. They chat about Nick's Past Rubies project, Brittany's implementation of Google Pay in Rails and why Turbolinks can be awesome!</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="www.pastrubies.com" class="link" target="_blank">Past Rubies</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://developers.google.com/pay/passes/guides/overview/basics/about-google-pay-api-for-passes" class="link" target="_blank">About Google Pay API for Passes</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/turbolinks/" class="link" target="_blank">How We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking Javascript</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/" class="link" target="_blank">Remote Ruby Podcast</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Schwad4HD14" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin" class="link" target="_blank">Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)</a><br /></li><li><a href="brittanymartin.dev" class="link" target="_blank">Brittany Martin's Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Indeed Prime</strong></p> <p>Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to <a href="www.indeedprime.com/rubyonrails">www.indeedprime.com/rubyonrails</a>.</p>

<p>Anand Dhillon is responsible for technical development and strategy at Cover as the CTO & Co-Founder. He guested on the podcast this week to discuss Domain Drive Design, Event Driven Architecture and how he implemented machine learning at Cover.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture" class="link" target="_blank">Event-driven architecture</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://confreaks.tv/conferences/railsconf" class="link" target="_blank">Confreaks TV | Events</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://cover.com/blog/" class="link" target="_blank">Cover's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/cover" class="link" target="_blank">Cover on Twitter (@cover)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cover" class="link" target="_blank">Cover on Facebook</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://cover.com/careers" class="link" target="_blank">Careers @ Cover</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p> <p><strong>Indeed Prime</strong></p> <p>Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to <a href="https://www.indeedprime.com/ruby?sid=us_podcast&kw=rubyonrails&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=NP-Prime-us--website-">www.indeedprime.com/ruby</a>.</p>

<p>Paul Tarjan is a lifelong nerd, juggler and engineer. Nowadays, he works at Stripe on developer productivity and infrastructural components. He is the technical lead of Sorbet, a new static type checker for Ruby.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stripe-choose-to-use-Ruby-for-its-backend-language" class="link" target="_blank">Why did Stripe choose to use Ruby for its backend language?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://sorbet.org/" class="link" target="_blank">Sorbet</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://sorbet.run/" class="link" target="_blank">Sorbet Playground</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/tupl-tufts/rdl" class="link" target="_blank">RDL (research project for ruby typing)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://hacklang.org/" class="link" target="_blank">Hack (typechecker for PHP)</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://mypy-lang.org/" class="link" target="_blank">MyPy (typechecker for Python)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/" class="link" target="_blank">TypeScript (typechecker for JavaScript)</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://libraryofjuggling.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Paul's Favorite Juggling Library</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvybkPa15c&feature=youtu.be&t=93" class="link" target="_blank">Video of Paul Juggling</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ptarjan?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Paul Tarjan on Twitter (@paultarjan)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p>

<p>Joining Brittany this week is Michael Kelly, a Senior Engineer with Stackshare and a passionate contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is the author of the graphql-cache gem, a caching plugin for graphql-ruby.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://stackshare.io" class="link" target="_blank">StackShare</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby" class="link" target="_blank">graphql-ruby on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/stackshareio/graphql-cache" class="link" target="_blank">graphql-cache on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/thebadmonkeydev" class="link" target="_blank">Michael Kelly on Github (@thebadmonkeydev)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/stackshareio" class="link" target="_blank">StackShare on Github (@stackshareio)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/stackshareio" class="link" target="_blank">StackShare on Twitter (@stackshareio)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://stackshare.io/weekly" class="link" target="_blank">StackShare Newsletter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://stackshare.io/careers" class="link" target="_blank">StackShare Careers</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Indeed Prime</strong></p> <ul> <li>Indeed Prime is a confidential, free service that puts you in front of leading brands and tech startups with roles you're interested in. So whether you’re hiring or looking, meet your match on Indeed Prime. Join now by going to <a href="https://www.indeedprime.com/ruby?sid=us_podcast&kw=rubyonrails&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=NP-Prime-us--website-">www.indeedprime.com/ruby</a>.</li> </ul>

<p>Joel Hawksley is a software engineer at GitHub. He recently served as the technical lead for Project Paper Cuts, incorporating feedback from the community into GitHub. He is now the lead on introducing support for ActionView::Component into Rails core.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.galvanize.com" class="link" target="_blank">Galvanize</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.mojotech.com/" class="link" target="_blank">MojoTech</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/36388" class="link" target="_blank">PR to Introduce Support for ActionView::Component</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/natashau" class="link" target="_blank">Natasha Umer on Github (@natashau)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/joelhawksley/actionview-component-demo" class="link" target="_blank">joelhawksley/actionview-component-demo</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/trailblazer/cells" class="link" target="_blank">Trailblazer Gem</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/dry-rb/dry-view" class="link" target="_blank">dry-view Gem</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/komposable/komponent" class="link" target="_blank">komponent Gem</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.blog/2018-08-28-announcing-paper-cuts/" class="link" target="_blank">Introducing Project Paper Cuts</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://hawksley.org" class="link" target="_blank">Joel Hawksley's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/joelhawksley" class="link" target="_blank">Joel Hawksley on Github (@joelhawksley)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p><strong>Hoefler&Co</strong></p> <p>A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At <a href="https://www.typography.com">typography.com</a>, you'll find the work of <strong>Hoefler&Co</strong>, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!</p> <p><strong>Flatiron School</strong></p> <p>Whether you want to learn in-person or online, <strong>Flatiron School</strong> helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back. Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at <a href="www.flatironschool.com/Ruby">www.flatironschool.com/Ruby</a>.</p>

<p>Nick Schwaderer and Brittany Martin talk about all of the cool things that are happening in their worlds. Tune in to dive into robots, the great cookie debate, Github acquisitions and new features and, of course, keyboards.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSwtA-WmAcQ" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer - OceansHQ - Future Sync 2019</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/itp-2-1-and-web-analytics/#set-cookie-headers-in-a-server-side-script" class="link" target="_blank">ITP 2.1 And Web Analytics</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://schwad.github.io/past_rubies/2019/06/19/past-rubies-1.html" class="link" target="_blank">Past Rubies #1: Ruby Celebrity Free-For-All</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://pullpanda.com/github" class="link" target="_blank">Pull Panda is joining GitHub!</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://help.github.com/en/articles/navigating-code-on-github" class="link" target="_blank">Jumping to the definition of a function or method on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://ergodox-ez.com" class="link" target="_blank">ErgoDox EZ Keyboard</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Schwad4HD14" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin" class="link" target="_blank">Brittany Martin on Twitter (@BrittJMartin)</a><br /></li><li><a href="brittanymartin.dev" class="link" target="_blank">Brittany Martin's Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p>Whether you want to learn in-person or online, <strong>Flatiron School</strong> helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back.</p> <p>Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at <a href="www.flatironschool.com/Ruby">www.flatironschool.com/Ruby</a>.</p>

<p>Roller Derby Nation is a growing network, dedicated to serving roller derby fans and their skaters. Brittany (Norma Skates) invited its founder, Scott Pio (Veggie Delight), on to the show to discuss dedication to your side hustle and how multi-tenancy can extend your application's reach.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://rdnation.com" class="link" target="_blank">Roller Derby Nation</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy" class="link" target="_blank">Definition of Multitenancy</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://spoiledtechie.com/post/Who-am-I.aspx" class="link" target="_blank">Spoiled Techie | Scott's Blog </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://getmakerlog.com" class="link" target="_blank">Makerlog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <p>Whether you want to learn in-person or online, <strong>Flatiron School</strong> helps students change careers with confidence with 1:1 career coaching and a tuition-back guarantee—follow their proven job search framework and receive a job in 6 months, or your tuition back.</p> <p>Join the thousands of people who’ve changed things—learn more at <a href="www.flatironschool.com/Ruby">www.flatironschool.com/Ruby</a>.</p>

<p>Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. As a maintainer of a platform codebase, her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs and abstracting away lower level framework code. Which is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL!</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://rubykaigi.org/2019/presentations/gao_shawnee.html#apr18" class="link" target="_blank">GraphQL Migration: A Proper Use Case for Metaprogramming?</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/" class="link" target="_blank">Protobuffers</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://graphql-ruby.org/" class="link" target="_blank">GraphqlRuby Gem</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/maxiperezc/graphoid" class="link" target="_blank">Graphoid Gem</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/gao_shawnee" class="link" target="_blank">Shawnee Gao on Twitter (@gaoshawnee)</a><br /></li><li><a href="github.com/shawneegao" class="link" target="blank">Shawnee Gao on Github (@shawneegao)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/squaredev?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Square Developer on Twitter (@squaredev)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://squareup.com/us/en/developers" class="link" target="_blank">Square Developers Landing Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://buildwithsquare.slack.com" class="link" target="_blank">Square Developers Slack Channe</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://developer.squareup.com/blog/" class="link" target="_blank">Square Developers Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="oscon.com/ruby">OSCON</a> is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.</li> </ul>

<p>Brittany welcomed back Sean Devine, former host of the Ruby on Rails podcast , and now CEO of XBE. Along with catching up, Sean and Brittany discussed betting on solid technologies and his advice for technical CEOs.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.x-b-e.com/" class="link" target="_blank">XBE</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://jsonapi.org/" class="link" target="_blank">JSON:API — A specification for building APIs in JSON</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://tailwindcss.com/" class="link" target="_blank">tailwindcss | A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/isleofcode/corber" class="link" target="_blank">corber | CLI for building hybrid apps with Ember/Vue/Glimmer/Cordova </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/barelyknown" class="link" target="_blank">Sean Devine on Twitter(@barelyknown)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="oscon.com/ruby">OSCON</a> is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.</li> </ul>

<p>Chris Oliver, creator of GoRails and co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, joined Nick Schwaderer to discuss his experience at Railsconf 2019. They also dive into form builder changes, documentation and ponder when Rails 6 will be released.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://gorails.com/" class="link" target="_blank">GoRails</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.hatchbox.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Hatchbox</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://railsconf.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Railsconf 2019</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://remoteruby.transistor.fm" class="link" target="_blank">Remote Ruby Podcast</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ewlarson/status/1125411992645193728" class="link" target="_blank">Schedule from Railsconf 2006</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQ1p8P2qHM" class="link" target="_blank">(Unofficial) DHH Keynote @ RailsConf 2019</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/6_0_release_notes.html" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails 6.0 Release Notes</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/excid3?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Chris Oliver on Twitter (@excid3)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Schwad4HD14?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="oscon.com/ruby">OSCON</a> is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.</li> </ul>

<p>Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce in Rails. The minitest advocate recounted the origins of Lamby, a simple Rails & AWS Lambda integration using Rack with Brittany.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.customink.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Custom Ink</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/customink/lamby" class="link" target="_blank">customink/lamby</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://rubyonjets.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Jets | The Ruby Serverless Framework</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Cloudformation</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/metaskills?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Ken Collins on Twitter (@metaskills)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="oscon.com/ruby">OSCON</a> is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.</li> </ul>

<p>Sonja Peterson is a senior software engineer at Devoted Health, working in Go and Typescript. Sonja guested on the show to speak with Brittany about her upcoming RailsConf talk, transitioning to Go and to spill on her favorite crime novels.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.devoted.com" class="link" target="_blank">DevotedHealth</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/welcome" class="link" target="_blank">BookBub</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://golang.org/" class="link" target="_blank">The Go Programming Language</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://railsconf.com/program/sessions#session-763" class="link" target="_blank">Fixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective @ RailsConf 2019</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html" class="link" target="_blank">The Practical Test Pyramid</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tana-French/e/B001H6IGWU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share" class="link" target="_blank">Tana French's Books</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle" class="link" target="_blank">The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://robert-galbraith.com/writing/" class="link" target="_blank">Robert Galbraith's Books</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sonjabpeterson?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Sonja Peterson on Twitter (@sonjabpeterson)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://samsaffron.com" class="link" target="_blank">Sam's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.discourse.org" class="link" target="_blank">Discourse</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/discourse/mini_racer" class="link" target="_blank">miniracer | Minimal embedded v8</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://samsaffron.com/archive/2019/03/31/why-i-stuck-with-windows-for-6-years-while-developing-discourse" class="link" target="blank">Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/samsaffron?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Sam Saffron on Twitter (@samsaffron)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction, Editing and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="oscon.com/ruby">OSCON</a> is ground zero to find out what you need to be in the know about in the open source community for 20 years. Listeners to the Ruby on Rails podcast can get 20% off of most* passes to OSCON when you go to oscon.com/ruby and use code RUBY20 during registration.</li> </ul>

<p>RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.rubymotion.com/" class="link" target="_blank">RubyMotion: Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://motioneers.herokuapp.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Mountaineers on Slack</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://wndx.school/p/6-pack-apps" class="link" target="_blank">6 Pack Apps</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://wndx.school/p/rubymotion-jumpstart" class="link" target="_blank">RubyMotion Jumpstart</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://dev.to/rubyrogues/rr-405---rubymotion-with-lori-olson" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/infinitered/redpotion" class="link" target="_blank">RedPotion</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.rubymotion.com/news/2019/03/01/the-sleeping-dragon-has-awoken.html" class="link" target="_blank">The Sleeping Dragon Has Awoken, And Is Filled With A Terrible Resolve</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/amirrajan" class="link" target="_blank">Amir Rajan on Twitter (@amirrajan)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/wndxlori" class="link" target="_blank">Lori M Olson on Twitter (@wndxlori)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://wndx.school/" class="link" target="_blank">WNDX School</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://acloud.guru" class="link" target="_blank">A Cloud Guru</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://linuxacademy.com" class="link" target="_blank">Linux Academy</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/certification/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Certification</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.canonical.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-14-04-end-of-life/" class="link" target="_blank">Ubuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of Life</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/" class="link" target="_blank">Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Auto Scaling</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://gist.github.com/justinsnair/c43cee3647a2a1ca9f9c08c0cdc89390" class="link" target="_blank">Justin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.brightbox.com/docs/ruby/ubuntu/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox Cloud</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/postfix.html.en" class="link" target="_blank">Postfix - Ubuntu Documentation</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/nps/nps-top" class="link" target="_blank">Windows RADIUS server</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS CodeDeploy</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/" class="link" target="_blank">Amazon CloudWatch</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-snair-529a47126" class="link" target="_blank">Justin Snair on Linked In</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~0176414637b0b741ef/" class="link" target="_blank">Justin Snair on Upwork</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Edouard-chin" class="link" target="_blank">Edouard Chin on Github </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://blog.driftingruby.com/ruby-on-rails-6-0-beta-1-deprecations/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/shopify/deprecation_toolkit" class="link" target="_blank">Shopify's Deprecation Toolkit</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/bootboot" class="link" target="_blank">Shopify's Bootboot</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://utm.io/ucZ3">Blockstack</a> The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.</li> </ul>

<p>Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.higherpixels.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Higher Pixels</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/buzzsprout" class="link" target="_blank">Buzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://utm.io/ucZ3">Blockstack</a> The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.</li> </ul>

<p>Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://abstractions.io/cfp/" class="link" target="_blank">Abstractions CFP</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://lucybain.com/blog/2016/conference-proposal-ideas/" class="link" target="_blank">How to come up with conference proposal ideas</a><br /></li><li><a href="sarahwithee.com/now" class="link" target="_blank">Sarah's Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/" class="link" target="_blank">global diversity CFP day</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah" class="link" target="_blank">Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/abstractionscon" class="link" target="_blank">Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://utm.io/ucZ3">Blockstack</a> The Blockstack ecosystem is hard at work to provide better, safer, user-owned apps. Ruby developers can get started in 45 minutes with the ‘Zero-to-Dapp’ Tutorial which will take you through building your first decentralized application today.</li> </ul>

<p>Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://depfu.com/5by5" class="link" target="_blank">Depfu with 5 by 5 Promotion</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://kosmos.social/@halfbyte" class="link" target="_blank">Jan on Mastodon </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://incompetech.com" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/Schwad4HD14" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/hellostealth/stealth" class="link" target="_blank">Stealth</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.lita.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Lita: ChatOps</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/eljojo/telegram_bot" class="link" target="_blank">TelegramBot</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/eljojo" class="link" target="_blank">José Albornoz on Twitter (eljojo)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/inspire" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Inspire" by BenSounds</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.speedshop.co/" class="link" target="_blank">Speedshop - Ruby on Rails performance consulting</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.speedshop.co/blog/" class="link" target="_blank">Speedshop Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.railsspeed.com/" class="link" target="_blank">The Complete Guide to Rails Performance</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.speedshop.co/tune.html" class="link" target="_blank">Tune</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://gumroad.com/l/EFwmR" class="link" target="_blank">Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf (Minneapolis)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://speedshop.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe" class="link" target="_blank">Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/nateberkopec" class="link" target="_blank">Nate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/headius" class="link" target="_blank">Charles Nutter on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/enebo" class="link" target="_blank">Tom Enebo on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/travis-ci/dpl" class="link" target="_blank">dpl</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rkh" class="link" target="_blank">Konstantin Haase on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment" class="link" target="_blank">Deployment on TravisCI</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html" class="link" target="_blank">Martin Fowler's Thoughts on Continuous Integration</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/hiro_asari" class="link" target="_blank">Hiro Asari on Twitter (@hiroasari)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/BanzaiMan" class="link" target="blank">Hiro Asari on Github (@BanzaiMan)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/straight" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Straight" by BenSound</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. After discussing their mutual love of Ruby, Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/jasoncharnes/run.rb" class="link" target="_blank">run.rb</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://southeastruby.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Southeast Ruby </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/" class="link" target="_blank">Remote Ruby </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/19" class="link" target="_blank">Remote Ruby with Brittany as Guest</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/generalized-anxiety-disorder-gad" class="link" target="_blank">Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jmcharnes" class="link" target="_blank">Jason Charnes on Twitter (@jmcharnes)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.podia.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Podia</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/downtown" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Downtown" by BenSound</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Brittany is on the road in NYC! Her company is a new client with thoughtbot, a creative studio that helps clients build applications. Brittany took a coffee break to chat with Sarah Dawson, their newest apprentice about thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, the thin line between junior developer and established developer and her initial reaction to Rails.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://thoughtbot.com" class="link" target="_blank">thoughtbot</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot" class="link" target="_blank">thoughtbot's Opensource Libraries</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/thoughtbot" class="link" target="_blank">thoughtbot on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/BrittJMartin/status/1088124750046597122" class="link" target="_blank">Storyboarding at thoughtbot </a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/happy-rock" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Happy Rock" by bensound </a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">One Month</a> (For a limited time visit <a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">onemonth.com/rubyonrails</a> to get 10% off any coding course).</li> </ul>

<p>Emily is the CEO of Shine Registry, a startup built on Rails that’s working on reshaping tradition to increase gender equity in entrepreneurship. Brittany has been consulting on the project so she invited Emily on to discuss prototyping an application quickly in RoR, being a non-technical founder and how our listeners can get involved with Shine Registry.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.shineregistry.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Shine Registry</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/swartz-center-for-entrepreneurship/education-and-resources/project-olympus/" class="link" target="_blank">Project Olympus</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shineregistry/?hl=en" class="link" target="_blank">Shine Registry on Instagram</a><br /></li><li><a href="[email protected]" class="link" target="_blank">[email protected] for interest in joining Shine Registry</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ewazlak?lang=en" class="link" target="_blank">Emily Wazlak on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Background/KeepDancing" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Keep Dancing" by Podington Bear</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">One Month</a> (For a limited time visit <a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">onemonth.com/rubyonrails</a> to get 10% off any coding course).</p></li> <li><p><a href="https://rubyonice.com">Ruby on Ice</a> (Use the code 5by5 before January 31st to receive a 10% discount on your ticket).</p></li> </ul>

<p>On December 28th, the CFP opened for Railsconf 2019. This year’s conference will be from April 30 to May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marty Haught, one of the Directors of Ruby Central, came on to answer your burning Railsconf questions.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://cfp.rubycentral.org/events/railsconf2019" class="link" target="_blank">Railsconf 2019 CFP</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://rubycentral.org/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby Central</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/boulder_ruby_group/" class="link" target="_blank">Boulder Ruby Group</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://railsconf.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Railsconf Website</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://confreaks.tv/conferences/railsconf" class="link" target="_blank">Confreaks TV | RailsConf</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/mghaught?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" class="link" target="_blank">Marty Haught on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/railsconf" class="link" target="_blank">Railsconf on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Positive and Fun" by Scott Holmes</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Now it’s possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. Joining Brittany is Alex Wood, the software engineer working on the AWS SDK for Ruby and author of the AWS Lambda Ruby runtime.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-ruby-build-support-for-aws-sam-cli/" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Blog: Announcing Ruby build support for AWS SAM CLI</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby" class="link" target="_blank">The official AWS SDK for Ruby</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby-record" class="link" target="_blank">Official repository for the aws-record gem, an abstraction for Amazon DynamoDB.</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/awslabs/aws-record-generator-rails" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Record Generator Rails</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/alexwwood" class="link" target="_blank">Alex Wood on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/cjyclaire730" class="link" target="_blank">Jingyi Chen on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/sprngr_" class="link" target="_blank">Introduction by Michael Springer</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.twinmusicom.org/download_file?fileid=302&fbclid=IwAR1vSJhJ01m_gugw9c6aKHaqrtw8ELo8EhMvVeoTwpW04kLYJmEg3d9CoiU" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Carefree Melody" by Twin Musicom</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Bandwidth sponsored by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="5by5.CacheFly.com">CacheFly</a></li> </ul>

<p>Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="http://rubyonjets.com" class="link" target="_blank">Jets Ruby Serverless Framework</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.boltops.com" class="link" target="_blank">BoltOps</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://blog.boltops.com" class="link" target="_blank">BoltOps Nuts and Bolts Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="aws lambda" class="link" target="_blank">AWS Lambda</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://serverless.com" class="link" target="_blank">Serverless Framework</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.zappa.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Zappa</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://chalice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" class="link" target="_blank">Chalice</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://apex.run" class="link" target="_blank">Apex</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tongueroo" class="link" target="_blank">Tung's LinkedIn</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/tongueroo" class="link" target="_blank">Tung's Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/tongueroo" class="link" target="_blank">Tung's YouTube Channel</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://rubyonjets.com/support-jets/" class="link" target="_blank">Support Jets</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Roger_Plexico/Where_The_Sidewalk_Ends/Roger_Plexico_-_Where_The_Sidewalk_Ends_-_03_Jetstar_Rollercoaster" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: Jetstar Rollercoaster by Roger Plexico</a><br /></li></ul><h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">One Month</a> (For a limited time visit <a href="http://onemonth.com/rubyonrails">onemonth.com/rubyonrails</a> to get 10% off any coding course).</li> </ul>

<p>Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="http://rspec.info" class="link" target="_blank">RSpec</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest" class="link" target="_blank">Minitest</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2003-04/W/3311/sectionM/case_studies/money/KentBeck_TDD_byexample.pdf" class="link" target="_blank">Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://xunitpatterns.com/" class="link" target="_blank">XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-effectively-with/0131177052/" class="link" target="_blank">Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html" class="link" target="_blank">Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.codewithjason.com" class="link" target="_blank">Jason Swett's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.rubyconfindia.org" class="link" target="_blank">RubyConf India</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.rubytestingpodcast.com/brittany-martin" class="link" target="_blank">The Ruby Testing Podcast | Brittany Guests</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.purple-planet.com/cinematic" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Cinematic" by Purple Planet Music</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee where she has been working on transitioning honestbee's monolith to smaller services. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.honestbee.com/" class="link" target="_blank">honestbee</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/honestbee/graphqlapp" class="link" target="_blank">honestbee's GraphQL App</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://speakerdeck.com/ankitagupta12/using-and-optimising-graphql-with-rails" class="link" target="_blank">Slide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with Rails</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/graphql-batch" class="link" target="_blank">GraphQL Batch by Shopify</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/gazubi" class="link" target="_blank">Ankita on Twitter (@gazubi)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://meydan.bandcamp.com/track/please-wake-up" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Please Wake Up" by Meydan </a><br /></li></ul>

<p>William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/twitter/finagle" class="link" target="_blank">Finagle</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war" class="link" target="_blank">How Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity Fair</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://linkerd.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Linkerd</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd" class="link" target="_blank">Linkerd on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/linkerd" class="link" target="_blank">Linkerd on Twitter (@linkerd)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://buoyant.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Buoyant</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/brittjmartin" class="link" target="_blank">Brittany on Twitter (@brittjmartin)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/wm" class="link" target="_blank">William on Twitter (@wm)</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Robot Cowboy" by Scanglobe </a><br /></li></ul>

<p>On August 15th, GitHub celebrated a major milestone: their main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! Upgrading Rails on an application as large and as trafficked as GitHub is no small task. Eileen M. Uchitelle, better known as @eileencodes, came on to the show to discuss the upgrade and supporting multiple databases in Rails 6.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://githubengineering.com/upgrading-github-from-rails-3-2-to-5-2/" class="link" target="_blank">Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/34052" class="link" target="_blank">Multi-Database Support in Rails 6</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/eileencodes" class="link" target="_blank">@eileencodes on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://eileencodes.com" class="link" target="_blank">Eileen's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://rubyonice.com" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby on Ice</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.bensound.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Creative Minds" by BENSOUND</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://rubyweekly.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby Weekly</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://cooperpress.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Cooperpress</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Ruby Inside</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://peterc.org/beginningruby/" class="link" target="_blank">Beginning Ruby</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/peterc" class="link" target="_blank">Peter Cooper on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://jvns.ca/" class="link" target="_blank">Julia Evan's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Karaoke_Mouse/" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: Karaoke Mouse - "Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side's Alternate Take)"</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Action Text is a new framework coming to Rails 6 to make it easier to create, edit, and display rich text content within an app. Brittany invited Javan Makhmali, programmer at Basecamp, on to the show to get the scoop.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/rails/actiontext" class="link" target="_blank">Action Text on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/basecamp/trix" class="link" target="_blank">Trix on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://trix-editor.org/" class="link" target="_blank">Trix Homepage</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/javan" class="link" target="_blank">Javan on Twitter (@javan)</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/javan" class="link" target="_blank">Javan on Github</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Known_Ocean/" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Oxalis Triangularis" by Known Ocean</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Brittany put her tickets aside to invite her web team at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Patrick FitzGerald (Director of eCommerce) and Danielle Greaves (Frontend Developer) on to the show. They discuss their origin stories, their team dynamics and their favorite aspects of Rails.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BI8V6RHgbww/?taken-by=wonderwomaninthemaking" class="link" target="_blank">The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Web Team</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://trustarts.org/" class="link" target="_blank">The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Site</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://queue-it.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Queue-it</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://sidekiq.org/" class="link" target="_blank">Sidekiq</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BLMnteihPwj/?taken-by=danigirl412" class="link" target="_blank">Johnny: World's Cutest Puggle</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/danigirl329" class="link" target="_blank">Danielle Greaves on Twitter</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Comfort_Fit/Forget_And_Remember/03_Sorry" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: Comfort Fit - "Sorry" </a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Brittany's official debut as the host of the podcast! Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core.</p> <p>Links for this episode:</p><ul><li><a href="https://schwad.github.io/" class="link" target="_blank">Nick Schwaderer's Blog</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://yakshave.fm" class="link" target="_blank">The Yak Shave Podcast</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/33523" class="link" target="_blank">Nick's Rails Contribution</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://www.codetriage.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Code Triage</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://artofproductpodcast.com/" class="link" target="_blank">Art of Product Podcast</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Professor_Kliq/Bust_This_Bust_That/Bust_This_Bust_That" class="link" target="_blank">Episode Music: "Bust This Bust That" by Professor Kliq</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://5by5.tv/admin/broadcasts/rubyonrails/episodes" class="link" target="_blank">Admin</a><br /></li></ul>

<p>Kyle talks with Robby and Corinne from Planet Argon about what they learned with this year's Rails Community Survey.</p>

<p>Now that Rails 5.2 is production ready, Britt gives Kyle a tour of Rails 5.2 and all it's coolest, newest, hippest, frameworkiest new features.</p>

<p>This week the talented Brit talked to Christoph Olszowka about Ruby Toolbox, SimpleCov, and what's up with Ruby these days. What's in your toolbox?</p>

<p>Logan McDonald joins Britt to discuss upgrading Kickstarter's main applications to Rails 5. They discuss the steps they took and lessons learned from the upgrade. If you're still riding Rails 4, this episode is definitely for you.</p>

<p>Coming back from hiatus, let's catch-up with Rails 5.1 & 5.2, the best parts of Rails in 2017, and the newest Javascript framework release of Stimulus.</p> <p><strong>Rollbar</strong></p> <p>With Rollbar’s error monitoring, you get the full stack trace, context, and user data to help you find and fix impactful errors super fast. Go to rollbar.com/ruby, signup, and get the Bootstrap Plan free.</p>

<p>This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part two of a two part episode.</p> <h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://do.co/ruby">Digital Ocean</a> (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to <a href="http://do.co/ruby">do.co/ruby</a>).</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://hellofresh.com">HelloFresh</a> (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit <a href="http://hellofresh.com">hellofresh.com</a> and enter promo code RAILS30).</p></li> </ul>

<p>This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part one of a two part episode.</p> <h4>Brought to you by:</h4> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://do.co/ruby">Digital Ocean</a> (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to <a href="http://do.co/ruby">do.co/ruby</a>).</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://hellofresh.com">HelloFresh</a> (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit <a href="http://hellofresh.com">hellofresh.com</a> and enter promo code RAILS30).</p></li> </ul>