The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Hosted by Brittany Martin and Brian Mariani. Produced by Mirror Placement. Edited by Peachtree Sound.
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Episode 317: 317: Coming Home to Rails with Vince Eberle
Vince Eberle is a Full Stack Developer at 412 Food Rescue. Over the last decade, he has worked on app development on-and-off using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS. He and Brittany discuss coming back to Rails and how powerful Rails can make a developer in a non-profit. Links for this episode:412 Food RescueSpiceworks: Software, Forums & Tools for IT Pros412 Food Rescue (@412FoodRescue) · TwitterRuby on Rails Link - A Slack CommunityEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 316: 316: MongoDB and Onboarding Junior Developers with Emily Giurleo
Emily Giurleo works as a Software Engineer at MongoDB, where she helps maintain the MongoDB Ruby Driver and Mongoid Object-Document Mapper for Ruby on Rails. She brought advice on how to successfully onboard a junior engineer in three steps, with the goals of building their trust, instilling confidence in their technical abilities, and enabling them to be an autonomous contributor to your team. Links for this episode:Codecademy: Learn to CodeMongoDBRailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition FreeFromRagtagEmily Giurleo (@EmilyGiurleo) · TwitterEmily Giurleo's Personal SiteEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 315: 315: Worrying About the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause
Hilary Stohs-Krause is a co-owner and full-stack software developer at Ten Forward Consulting. She joined Brittany to discuss her upcoming RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition session. Together, they explored the root causes of fear and anxiety and how we can start to deliberately rewrite our instincts. Links for this episode:Ten Forward Consulting: Custom Software DevelopmentMadison Women in TechRailsConf 2020.2: Couch Edition Hilary's Personal SiteHilary Stohs-Krause (@hilarysk) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN protects your privacy and security online but you can also use ExpressVPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries! If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.
Episode 314: 314: Active Storage & Modern Images with Mark Hutter
Mark is a lead engineer at Landing, a new platform for providing flexible living solutions for today’s renters. He is also the co-organizer of the Birmingham on Rails conference. He guested on the podcast to propose the simple question: can ActiveStorage be used for image serving in your modern web apps? Links for this episode:Page Speed Insights | GoogleLighthouse | GoogleMoving towards a faster web | Google See How Images Affect Your Page Speed | imgixTest a website's performance | Web Page TestGoogleChrome / lighthouse | Read the Docs!Birmingham on Rails 2020 - Validating and Processing the Content of a File with Active Storage by Claudio B.ActiveStorage Feature Request - Support for CDN (Cloudfront) #35926Mark's Personal SiteMark Hutter (@mrkhutter) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 313: 313: Strangler Fig Pattern & God Objects with Adrianna Chang
Adrianna Chang is a developer intern at Shopify and a member of the inaugural cohort for Shopify’s Dev Degree program, a 4-year work-integrated learning program. She joined Brittany to discuss her latest blog post, "Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern”. Links for this episode:Dev DegreeRefactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig PatternPolly want a message | Sandi Metzseattlerb/flog | GitHubStranglerFigApplication - Martin FowlerShopify Engineering (@ShopifyEng) · TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 312: 312: (PFN) Podcasting From Home with Brittany & Nick
Nick Schwaderer popped on to the show to talk about his recent job search (Ruby & Rails are thriving!) and his recent commit to Rails core. Brittany discussed how she is taking the opportunity to work on her Googlepay gem and the recent conference cancellations. Links for this episode:Railsconf CancellationNick's PR into Rails: WIP: Ensure rails new . --master builds a complete bleeding edge application (not just core gems) Google Pay API | Google DevelopersEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 311: 311: Pareto Product Programming with Philip Poots
Philip Poots is the VP of Engineering at ClubCollect, a FinTech startup in Amsterdam. He is a Pareto product programmer, remote advocate and a self proclaimed dilettante. His recent talk, "Rediscovering Ruby" was a big point of discusssion between Brittany and him. Links for this episode:ClubCollect - have a financially healthy organisationUnderstanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)Deep Work - Cal Newportpootsbook (Philip Poots) · GitHubPhil's Blog | Crossing the Rubicon Episode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBrought to you by: ExpressVPN ExpressVPN protects your privacy and security online but you can also use ExpressVPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries! If you visit https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY right now, you can get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/RUBY.
Episode 310: 310: Pivoting Brighton Ruby 2020 with Andy Croll
Andy Croll is CTO at CoverageBook & AnswerThePublic, Rubyist, conference organizer of Brighton Ruby, author, speaker, bootstrapper & twin dad. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Andy had to pivot this year's conference into a new experience. He and Brittany discuss the details and the potentially lasting effects on the community. Links for this episode:Brighton Ruby Conference 2020Andy Croll's Personal SiteOne Ruby ThingAndy Croll (@andycroll) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 309: 309: Upgrading Rails & Skunk for Scoring with Ernesto Tagwerker
Ernesto Tagwerker is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company dedicated to building lean code and reducing tech debt. He and Brittany enthusiastically discuss blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto's future plans for his code scoring library, Skunk. Links for this episode:Ombu Labs - The Lean Software BoutiqueFast Ruby - Ruby on Rails Upgrades by Ombu Labsfastruby / skunk | A StinkScore Calculator for Ruby Code Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 308: 308: Open Source Groundskeeping with Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene is a New Orleans born software engineer living in LA, 13 years into his career. He prefers Ruby, Javascript, and Elixir, but he has played with loads of languages. Brittany and he discuss the concept of important opinions and the steps he took to take over maintainership of the VCR gem. Links for this episode:vcr/vcr: Record your test suite's HTTP interactions | GitHubThe Hippocratic License 2.0: An Ethical License for Open Source ProjectsOpen Collective - Make your community sustainableKurtis Rainbolt-Greene's Web Logk. rainbolt-greene (@krainboltgreene) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 307: 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola
Dave Paola was cofounder and CTO at Bloc. He is now the cofounder of Jellyswitch, unleashing the power of the distributed workforce. Dave and Brittany converse about choosing frameworks, bootcamps and frontend frameworks. Links for this episode:Bloc | Online Programs in Web Developmentgithub / actionview-componentSam Stephenson (@sstephenson) | TwitterJellyswitch - Coworking Space Management App Dave Paola (@dpaola2) | Twitterjellyswitch (@jellyswitchapp) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 306: 306: Ask For The Job with Brian Mariani (Part II)
Back by popular demand, Brian is back! Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, a Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm, came back to share his wisdom on financial negotiations, what it is like to recruit from both the client and developer side and that one overlooked tip to get the job. Links for this episode:Mirror Placement 5by5 RoR 287: Recruitment on Rails with Brian MarianiEmail Brian Mariani (brian@mirrorplacement.com)Episode Music by Kevin MacLeodEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
Episode 305: 305: Rails Camp USA with Bobbilee Hartman
Bobbilee Hartman is a Developer Advocate at Square. She is more widely known as the founder of Rails Camp West, the long-standing unplugged retreat for web developers in the United States. She pitches Brittany on attending this year and answers all of her questions about the getaway. Links for this episode:Learn HTML & CSS - a book that teaches you in a nicer wayRailsbridgeSquare: Solutions & Tools to Grow Your BusinessSquare Tutorials | YoutubeRails Camp WestEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerBobbilee Hartman (@bobbilee19) | TwitterRails Camp USA (@railscampusa) | TwitterEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 304: 304: Legacy Code Wisdom with Alexey Chernov
Alexey Chernov is a Ruby on Rails consultant at JetThoughts. Over the years, he has built MVPs and consulted to improve legacy code, scale up the remote team and achieve an effective development process. He and Brittany dive deep into approaching legacy RoR projects. Links for this episode:JetThoughtsJetThoughts · GitHubJTWay by JetThoughtsJetThoughts (@JetThoughts) | TwitterBrittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod
Episode 303: 303: Site Reliability at DEV with Molly Struve
Molly Struve is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at DEV, the company that runs the blogging website dev.to. She and Brittany unpack what site reliability means, Molly's fondness of Elasticsearch and how Molly creates all of her witty and educational content. Links for this episode:DEVElasticsearchRedisMolly Struve (@mollystruve) | TwitterBrittany Martin (@BrittJMartin) | TwitterEpisode Introduction and Outro by Michael SpringerEpisode Music by Kevin MacLeod