Ruby On Rails Podcast

Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community. Show Notes: Failure Driven (https://failure-driven.com/) Failure Driven on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/failure_driven) Selena Small (@selenasmall88) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/selenasmall88) Michael Milewski (@saramic) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/saramic) Selena on Sessionize (https://sessionize.com/selena-small/) Michael on Sessionize (https://sessionize.com/michael-milewski/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking. How can you spend more time shipping cod

Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions. Show Notes: Workforce.com (https://workforce.com/) Why companies don't hire juniors by Alex Ghiculescu (https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/why-companies-dont-hire-juniors) If you want to learn more about working at Workforce.com, reach out to: Chicago - Stacey McKnight - smcknight@workforce.com London - Phil Fraser - philip@workforce.com Brisbane - Austin Wilshire - austin@tanda.co For non-junior roles, they will consider folks who don’t live in those places but can commute to them occasionally. Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) You won’t know if Honeybadger will really save you time and trouble until you see how it works in your own toolchain. With two lines of code and five minutes,

Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at RubyConf Mini and her recent team switch at Shopify. Show Notes: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify by Rose Wiegley (https://shopify.engineering/what-being-a-staff-developer-means-at-shopify) RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote by Rose Wiegley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GorXHiB7nw) NormConf Talk: Data Driven Promotions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gzEKQnFSCA) Alex Terrasa’s talk, "Here be dragons" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7DOSoXICMo) ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups (https://review.firstround.com/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups) Rose W (@rose_w) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/rose_w?lang=en) rose (@rose@ruby.social) (https://ruby.social/@rose) Rose's Blog (https://rosew.blog/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybad

Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen. Show Notes: Episode 431: For the Love of Consulting and the Cloud with Mina Slater (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/431) Ruby on Rails Guides (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/) the Tightly Coupled Book Club (https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/) Ruby Book Club Podcast (http://rubybookclub.com/episodes) Mina Slater (@mina@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@mina) Aji Slater (@aji@thoughtbot.social) (https://thoughtbot.social/@aji) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger is the

What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany. Show Notes: Shoes! The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby (http://shoesrb.com/) why-archive/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf at master - GitHub (https://github.com/whymirror/why-archive/blob/master/shoes/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf) Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.26.0.1 - GitHub (https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-swt) scarpe-team / scarpe (https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe) schwad (@schwad_rb) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/schwad_rb?lang=en) Hackety Hack - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack) Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template (https://bullettrain.co/) CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails (https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan

Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll. Show Notes & Links: You can follow Colleen on the following platforms: * Colleen Leonard / LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-carroll-leonard/) * Colleen Leonard (@_colleenleonard) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/_colleenleonard?lang=en) * Colleen Leonard on (@ccleonard ) / Mastodon (https://ruby.social/@ccleonard) You can follow Test Double on the following platforms: Read the latest at https://blog.testdouble.com/ (https://blog.testdouble.com/) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble (https://www.linkedin.com/company/testdouble) Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@testdouble (https://mastodon.world/@testdouble) Sponsored By: Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a

In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market. Show Notes & Links: Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/419) Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) 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. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Ra

Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting Blue Ridge Ruby, a two-day, single-track conference featuring ten speakers, plus lightning talks. The conference will be held at the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th. Show Notes: Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/) Sponsor Blue Ridge Ruby (https://blueridgeruby.com/sponsorship/) HYBRD (https://hybrd.co/) IndieRails Podcast (https://www.indierails.com/) Jeremy Smith (@jeremysmithco) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/jeremysmithco) Mark Locklear (@marklocklear@techhub.social) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/marklocklear) Mark's Personal Site (http://locklear.me/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses

Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. They dive deeper into their internship program and how an internship is one of the most accessible ways to start bringing juniors into the team. Show Notes & Links: LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/intensive-bootcamp/) 3-Day Jumpstart Bootcamp | LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/jumpstart/) Partners | LEARN academy (https://www.learnacademy.org/partners/) Adam Cuppy on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcuppy/) Sarah Proctor on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-proctor-sd/) Chelsea Kaufman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelskaufman/) 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

Emmanuel Hayford is an independent Rails Consultant and a co-editor of "The Weeks in Rails". He excitedly tells Brittany his favorite upcoming features for Rails 7.1 and his favorite features that shipped with Ruby 3.2. They wrap the episode discussing why community content is so important. Show Notes & Links: This Week in Rails (https://world.hey.com/this.week.in.rails) TryRuby: Learn programming with Ruby (https://try.ruby-lang.org/) An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part I (https://manny.codes/this-week-in-rails-wrapped-an-overview-of-rails-7-1-features-part-i/) Ruby 3.2.0 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/) Rad Ruby (https://manny.codes/radruby) Emmanuel Hayford on Twitter (@siaw23) (https://twitter.com/siaw23) Sponsored By: Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brin

Kevin Murphy is a software developer in the Boston area, currently working at Bookbub. After discussing Kevin's first commit into Ruby(!), he and Brittany discuss the long-term benefits and effects of community involvement, including speaking. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kevin's tour promo at the end of the episode! Show Notes & Links: Contributing to Ruby Docs (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/contributing_md.html) Ruby's Coverage Module (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Coverage.html) Kevin Murphy's website (https://kevinjmurphy.com/) Kevin Murphy on Mastodon (https://ruby.social/@kevin_j_m) Kevin's Blog Post Series about having an MBA (https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/situational-leadership/) Kevin's contribution to Ruby (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/b3d330c39ebbf27cefc2d83109dad9e0b3b0e94f) 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,

After taking a moment to talk about Chris Seaton's impact on the community, Nick tells Brittany about his adventures in TruffleRuby and Hatchbox. They also discuss how Shopify removed all recurring meetings with more than two people in perpetuity to encourage more focus time. Show Notes & Links: Chris Seaton (https://chrisseaton.com/) oracle/truffleruby - GitHub (https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby) postmodern/chruby: Changes the current Ruby - GitHub (https://github.com/postmodern/chruby) Hatchbox.io (https://hatchbox.io/) Roda: Routing Tree Web Toolkit - Jeremy Evans (https://roda.jeremyevans.net/) Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/shopify-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings/) Workplace from Meta (https://www.workplace.com/) 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 y

Captured live from Rubyconf 2022 Home Edition on January 11th, 2023, this is a special episode recorded with the Hanami Core Team: Luca Guidi, Tim Riley and Peter Solnica. Co-moderated by Jason Charnes and Brittany Martin. Moderated By: Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby (https://remoteruby.com/) Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/) Panelists: Luca Guidi (https://lucaguidi.com/) Tim Riley (https://timriley.info/) Peter Solnica (https://solnic.codes/) A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf @ Home for making this happen! Show Notes: Hanami (https://hanamirb.org/) dry-rb (https://dry-rb.org/) ROM (https://rom-rb.org/) Roda (https://roda.jeremyevans.net/) decafsucks / decafsucks (https://github.com/decafsucks/decafsucks) Sponsor Hanami (https://hanamirb.org/donate/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Recent studies found that downtime can cost $427 per minute for small businesses, and up to $9,000 per minute for medium-sized businesses. That's

Brittany guested on Ruby for All this week! She joins Julie J to talk about why integrations are important to developers and why integration knowledge can give Juniors a leg up in hiring. They also discuss the differences between APIs and webhooks and review a real world example. Show Notes & Links: Ruby for All (https://www.rubyforall.com/) 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. Miro (https://miro.com/ruby/) Brainstorm, solve problems, and reach better decisions faster as a team on Miro’s visual collaboration platform. Whether you use it for Agile rituals, technical diagramming, or as a project hub, Miro brings together developers and their workflows in one shared spa

After reflecting on their 2022 resolutions, Brittany and Jemma talk about their resolutions for 2023. Afterwards, Brittany congratulates Jemma on shipping Object Shapes in Ruby 3.2, asks what is in store for her next and why everyone should upgrade to Ruby 3.2. They wrap up the episode talking about team changes at TextUs. Show Notes & Links: Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/399) Ruby 3.2.0 Released (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/) Shopify/yjit: Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby - GitHub (https://github.com/Shopify/yjit) 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

The podcast voice is back! Andy Croll is starting 2023 off right by joining Brittany to discuss the process they went through at CoverageBook to hire a junior developer. The timing is perfect because TextUs was also hiring a Junior developer so Brittany cons Andy into sharing a bunch of free advice. Happy New Year, listeners! Show Notes & Links: CoverageBook (https://coveragebook.com/) Episode 384 - The TextUs Junior Trio with Saundra Catalina, Jeff Golden and Luke Mason (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/384) My First Ruby Friend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll (https://andycroll.com/ruby/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) 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.i

Adam Pallozzi has been a professional musician, business owner and software developer. Now, he has co-founded SleepHQ, a CPAP support community where users can upload, review and share their therapy data with anyone. Ahead of his (spoiler: successful) launch of the Pro version, Adam sits down with Brittany to discuss his journey to finding Rails, his appreciation of Bullet Train, working on hardware (magic!) and finding community from AU. Show Notes & Links: SleepHQ (https://www.sleephq.com/) Bullet Train: The Ruby on Rails SaaS Template (https://bullettrain.co/) Adam Pallozzi (@adampallozzi) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/adampallozzi) Adam Pallozzi on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFjsJxOnr4mL2fXFphJgyQ) 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 happen

Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo are back on the show as new maintainers of the Faker gem! The trio discuss what they have learned in OSS so far, when to declare bankruptcy and how to market a project for new contributors. Does Hacktoberfest make a difference? Show Notes & Links: Episode 407 | Get to Senior with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo (hexdevs) (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/407) Get to Senior | hexdevs (https://academy.hexdevs.com/view/courses/get-to-senior) faker-ruby / faker (https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker) How to Open Source with Richard Schneeman | hexdevs Podcast (https://www.hexdevs.com/posts/how-to-open-source-with-richard-schneeman-schneems/) Stefanni Brasil (@stefannibrasil) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/stefannibrasil) Thiago Araujo (@thdaraujo) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/thdaraujo) 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

Joe Masilotti of both Turbo Native and railsdevs fame, joined Brittany to talk about his upcoming Turbo Native workshop. They discuss why he is conducting the workshop(s), whether he is happy with the current state of Turbo Native (with a cool OSS reveal) and of course, an update on how railsdevs is progressing. Show Notes & Links: Episode 413 - Positivity and railsdevs with Joe Masilotti (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/413) Turbo Native Workshop (https://masilotti.com/turbo-native-workshop/) hotwired / turbo-ios (https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios) railsdevs (https://railsdevs.com/) Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti) (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti) 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.hone

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-