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Episode 452: 2023 with Finesse (Brittany + Jemma)
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 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 Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.
Episode 451: How We Hire Junior Developers with Andy Croll
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.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).
Episode 450: Bootstrapping SaaS on Rails + Finding Community with Adam Pallozzi
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 happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 449: New OSS Maintainers with Stefanni Brasil and Thiago Araujo
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. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).
Episode 448: Turbo Native Workshop with Joe Masilotti
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.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 447: Rubyconf Mini Recap + The Rails Foundation (Brittany + Jemma + Emily)
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-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.
Episode 446: I'm Giving A Talk on Thursday (The Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel)
Live from Providence, RI, it is the Rubyconf Mini Podcast Panel! Panelists from different community podcasts come together to discuss their experiences at the conference, field questions from the audience attendees and of course, mention their upcoming talks they were giving at the conference. Moderated By: Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/) Panelists: Andy Croll, Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Drew Bragg, Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Joël Quenneville, The Bikeshed (https://www.bikeshed.fm/) Julie J, Ruby for All (https://www.rubyforall.com/) A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf Mini for making this panel happen: Jemma Issroff, Emily Samp and Andy Croll. Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 445: The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode (Brittany + Nick)
It's back and now a tradition! It's the Holiday Gift Guide episode where Brittany and Nick share their picks for gifts that might appeal to a developer in your life. Brittany's Picks Philips Hue: Smart lighting (https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us) Gold Neutral Recorder Button (https://www.amazon.com/Neutral-Recorder-Recordable-Education-Batteries/dp/B07MQXQWBB) Cirkul Water Bottle | Brittany's Referral Link to Save $ (https://drinkcirkul.com/share/Brittany-V6240301580378) Felix Gray Blue Light Glasses (https://felixgray.com/collections/blue-light-glasses) Wizard Zines by Julia Evans (https://wizardzines.com/) Nick's Picks Rebuilding Rails by Noah Gibbs (https://rebuilding-rails.com/) AWS IoT Button (https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/) Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought (https://roamresearch.com/) Steam Deck (https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck) Lava Lamp (https://www.lavalamp.com/) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.
Episode 444: Artificial Intelligence on Rails with Kevin Su
Kevin Su ditched college to pursue the venture-backed startup dream, but found his calling running a small, bootstrapped and profitable SaaS business called Clearscope. Together, Brittany, Brian and Kevin discuss why Rails is the perfect launching pad for SaaS businesses, the tech stack Clearscope has chosen and how they approach hiring. Show Notes & Links: Clearscope (https://www.clearscope.io/) Kalzumeus Software - patio11 (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) Start Small, Stay Small (https://startsmall.com/) Senior/Lead Full-stack Software Engineers at Clearscope (https://angel.co/company/clearscopeio/jobs/2261957-full-stack-software-engineers-all-levels) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 443: Your Network Is Your Net Worth with Roman Turner
Roman Turner is a classically trained French chef turned developer. He's now a Software Developer at America's Test Kitchen. He and Brittany discuss personal branding, attracting and keeping members in the Ruby/Rails community and advice for junior developers seeking their first role. Show Notes & Links: America's Test Kitchen (https://www.americastestkitchen.com/) Jeweler’s Apprentice (http://jewelers-apprentice.com/) Roman (@scoop_law) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/scoop_law) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. JetBrains RubyMine (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/) RubyMine is an intelligent cross-platform IDE that provides all essential tools for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers out of the box. It offers smart code completion and analysis, easy code navigation, safe automated refactorings, an interactive debugger, Git workflow support, database integration, and many other tools. All tools are integrated together in a highly customizable, productive, user-friendly environment. To get a special 20% discount for the listeners of The Ruby on Rails Podcast just enter the discount code railspodcast during the purchase (https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/). You can apply this discount to JetBrains All products pack and use IDEs of your choice.
Episode 442: Sierra Rails (The Apprenticeship Pattern) with Dave Paola
An episode to inspire everyone who is passionate about Junior Rails developers finding roles! Dave Paola is the founder of Sierra Rails, a new development agency based on the idea that combining Ruby on Rails with the apprenticeship model can produce big results. Show Notes & Links: Episode 307: Choosing the Right Tech Stack with Dave Paola (https://www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/307) Sierra Rails (https://www.sierrarails.com/) Exposing your Ignorance by Sierra Rails (https://anchor.fm/sierra-rails) Dave Paola (@dpaola2) · Twitter (https://twitter.com/dpaola2) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 441: The Pursuit of Mentorship with Meghan Gutshall
Meg Gutshall is a Ruby on Rails application developer at Penn Medicine with a passion for open source. Brittany asks Meg about her love of Virtual Coffee, her fond memories of Mike Rogers and her role as a core team member of Ruby for Good. Show Notes & Links: Penn Medicine (https://www.pennmedicine.org/) Virtual Coffee (https://virtualcoffee.io/) Ruby for Good (https://rubyforgood.org/) meg_gutshall - Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/meg_gutshall) meg-gutshall (Meg Gutshall) - GitHub (https://github.com/meg-gutshall) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Mirror Placement (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/) Mirror Placement are the Ruby on Rails & JavaScript recruiters. They are actively engaged with a wide and deep network of Rails, JavaScript, and Full-Stack Open Source engineers and tech leaders we love, with relationships cultivated over 15 years. Contact Brian, co-host of this podcast, here (https://www.mirrorplacement.com/contact).
Episode 440: World Traveler and Ruby 3.2 Preview (Brittany + Jemma)
Object Shapes is merged and headed to Ruby 3.2! Fresh off of her world tour, Jemma catches up with Brittany about RubyKaigi, Euroku and Rails SaaS. After talking about Rubyconf Mini plans, the pair discuss the new Data.define feature coming to Ruby 3.2 as well. Show Notes & Links: Rubyconf Mini Tickets (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rubyconf-mini-providence-rhode-island-registration-414698754137) Implement Object Shapes #6386 by jemmaissroff (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6386) Add Data class implementation: Simple immutable value object #6353 by zverok (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6353) New in Ruby 3.2 - Data.define (https://dev.to/baweaver/new-in-ruby-32-datadefine-2819) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).
Episode 439: One More Podcast Pitch with Andy Croll
Andy Croll is back and he has something to say. Brittany and Andy chat from their cupboards about My First Ruby Friend, bringing yourself to work, Apple note driven development and Rubyconf Mini. They spend the rest of the episode on Andy's podcast pitch. Show Notes & Links: My First Ruby Friend (https://firstrubyfriend.org/) One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll (https://andycroll.com/ruby/) Rubyconf Mini 2022 (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) Chats in the Cupboard (https://chatsinthecupboard.com/) Andy Croll (@andycroll) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/andycroll?lang=en) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Honeybadger monitors your cron jobs and services to make sure they don't silently disappear. When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good. Check monitoring off your todo list. Try Honeybadger free for 15 days. Atlantis Technology (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers) Atlantis is looking for great engineers! Why work at Atlantis? You'll work with great people. You’ll work on projects that change the world. No matter where you are in your career, they’re prepared to help you advance it. Find out more here (https://www.atlantistech.com/careers).
Episode 438: The Rails SaaS Conference Hype Train with Drew Bragg
Reunited and it feels so good! Friend of the show and host of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it, Drew Bragg, is back today. Together, he and Brittany discuss the upcoming Rails SaaS Conference and their goals for attending. They also hash out Drew's game show talk for Rubyconf Mini and how he is straddling a Rails upgrade and ViewComponent upgrade at work. Show Notes & Links: Code and the Coding Coders who Code it (https://podcast.drbragg.dev/) Rails SaaS Conference (https://railssaas.com/) Rubyconf Mini (https://www.rubyconfmini.com/) ViewComponent (https://viewcomponent.org/) MaterialUI (https://mui.com/) Drew Bragg (@DRBragg) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/drbragg) Paul Bahr (@PaulEditsPods) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/PaulEditsPods) Sponsored By: Honeybadger (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—and bring your own domain! Transparency inspires trust—when your next outage happens, communication is key. Go to Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) to learn more. Scout APM (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) Try their error monitoring and APM free for 14-days, no credit card needed! And as an added bonus for Ruby on Rails listeners: Scout will donate $5 to the open-source project of your choice when you deploy. Learn more at http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails).