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Episode 458: LEARN Academy with Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman
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! 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) Get the best of both worlds with Scout APM. Quick and effective performance monitoring designed specifically for Rails developers, it helps you fix issues fast with a developer-friendly UI and tracing logic. Resolve abnormalities like N+1 queries and memory bloat in real-time and prevent customer impact with real-time alerting. Try it now with a free 14-day trial and get started at scoutapm.com/rubyonrails (http://scoutapm.com/rubyonrails) . Then, take your skills to the next level at SPOTcon 2023. Experience the future of performance monitoring alongside Scout APM and other industry leaders. Stay ahead of the game with innovative solutions at SPOTCon 2023 a virtual event on March 2nd, 2023 - Register Now! www.spotcon.io (https://event.spotcon.io/2023/).
Episode 457: This Week In Rails with Emmanuel Hayford
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 brings together developers and their workflows in one shared space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more! 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.
Episode 456: The Ruby’s Got You Covered World Tour with Kevin Murphy
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, 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 space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
Episode 455: Adventures in TruffleRuby (Brittany + Nick)
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 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 454: Rubyconf @ Home: Hanami Core Team
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 every single minute! A monthly subscription with Honeybadger helps you prevent costly downtime by giving you all the monitoring you need in one easy-to-use platform so you can quickly understand what's going on and how to fix it, which helps you stay in business. Get started today in as little as 5 minutes at Honeybadger.io (https://www.honeybadger.io/) with plans starting at free! 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 space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
Episode 453: Ruby for All Crossover: Integrations
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 space. Check out The Ruby on Rails Podcast community board at miro.com/ruby/ (https://miro.com/ruby/) where you can learn about the hosts, leave feedback, and more!
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).