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Ruby Rogues

Charles M Wood

Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.

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  • Dec 24, 2025 · 1 hr

    Autogenetic AI Agents and the Future of Ruby Development - RUBY 682

    AI agents are no longer just tools we manually wire together—they’re starting to build themselves. In this episode of Ruby Rogues, I caught up with Valentino Stoll to explore a fascinating idea: autogenetic (self-generating) AI agents and what they...

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  • #680
    Nov 14, 2025 · 41 min

    Keeping Ruby Welcoming: A Conversation We Need to Have - RUBY 680

    In this solo episode, I open up about what’s been going on behind the scenes with Ruby Rogues and why you’ve been hearing more solo shows from me lately. Between new full-time work, family life, and shifting schedules among the panelists, it’s been a...

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  • #678
    Sep 9, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min

    Distributing Your CLI with Homebrew: Tips from Mike McQuaid - RUBY 678

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, I sit down with Mike McQuaid, lead maintainer of Homebrew, to talk all about building and distributing CLIs. We dig into the practical steps for turning small scripts into reliable command-line tools, why Ruby is a...

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  • Jul 16, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min

    Indexing the Ruby World with RubyEvents.org - RUBY 677

    Hey everyone, Charles Max Wood here! It’s great to be back behind the mic with Ayush Nawatia for another episode of Ruby Rogues. This time, we’re diving into the fascinating world of Ruby community resources with two amazing guests: Adrien Poly and...

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  • May 22, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    The Magic of RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino - RUBY 676

    In this episode, we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Carmine Paolino — an AI innovator, Ruby enthusiast, and all-around tech wizard. From his early days automating PC games at age five to building cutting-edge AI tools in Berlin,...

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  • May 9, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

    Demystifying the Rails Codebase with Ridhwana Khan - RUBY 675

    Hey folks, in this week’s episode, I sat down with the incredible Ridhwana Khan — a South African technical writer for the Rails Foundation and lead engineer at Circle. We had a fantastic chat about all things Ruby on Rails, but especially the...

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  • May 2, 2025 · 1 hr 42 min

    How to Optimize Your Rails App Using SQLite - RUBY 674

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Charles Max Wood and Ayush Nwatia welcome back guest Stephen Margheim to dive deeper into the evolving world of SQLite. Stephen explains that with Rails 8, SQLite has reached a major milestone: it now supports a fully...

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  • Apr 4, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

    Why Change Feels Scary—And How to Make It Work for You - RUBY 673

    In this episode, we dove into a topic that’s been on our minds — how to navigate change with purpose instead of fear. Whether it's personal transformation, career pivots, or unexpected life shifts, we talked about what it takes to stay grounded and...

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  • #669
    Jan 24, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

    Exploring Tech Choices and Team Dynamics with Jesse Spivak - RUBY 669

    In this episode of Top End Devs, host David Camira is joined by panelists Luke Stutters and John Epperson, along with special guest Jesse Spivak, a senior engineer at Ibotta. Jesse shares his experiences and insights from a challenging project at...

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  • Jan 8, 2025 · 46 min

    Rules of OOP in Pictures with Ivan Nemytchenko - RUBY 668

    Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at RailsConf about abstract object-oriented programming ideas and how they can be expressed with pictures. The discussion goes into learning processes and how to...

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  • Jan 1, 2025 · 53 min

    Rails at Super Scale with Kyle d'Oliveira - RUBY 667

    Kyle d'Oliveira (Clio) shares his survival tips for dealing with tens of thousands of commits, massive migrations and the very limits of databases. We discuss the lessons learned from Rails megaprojects and how to use these tips in your own projects...

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  • Dec 18, 2024 · 48 min

    GraphQL Doesn't Need To Be Hell with Dmitry Tsepelev - RUBY 665

    Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the advantages over REST-based API queries and best practices for security and schemas. Links - https://github.com/anycable/anycable -...

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  • Dec 11, 2024 · 54 min

    Sorbet with Ufuk Kayserilioglu - RUBY 664

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the benefits they felt they received from implementing it. Ufuk also reveals a little bit about how Shopify transitioned to fully remote...

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  • Dec 4, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min

    Black-Belt Debugging with Chelsea Troy - RUBY 663

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn how to actively improve debugging skills, train troubleshooting instincts and practical strategies for tackling brain-bending bugs....

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