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The Ruby on Rails Podcast

David Hill

The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Edited by Redrum Creative.

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  • August 12 · 30 min

    Episode 547: Special Guest Andy Croll

    Andy Kroll joins me to talk about the changing Ruby conference landscape, how AI has altered the way developers work, and why traditional technical interviews may no longer make sense.

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  • August 5 · 31 min

    Episode 546: Gearing up for Rails World, with Amanda Perino

    Rails Foundation Executive Director Amanda Perino joins the show to preview Rails World 2026 in Austin. Amanda shares what attendees can expect from the conference, how the Rails Foundation is adapting its work in response to AI, and how Rails World is balancing AI-focused sessions with the rest of the Rails ecosystem.

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  • July 1 · 38 min

    Episode 541: Markus Schirp and Mutation Testing

    With AI seeming to generate more code every day, we need better tools to verify that it hasn't broken something. Maybe mutation testing can help us get there. Markus Schirp chats with us about the mutant gem and mutation testing.

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  • May 21, 2025 · 28 min

    Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke

    Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end

  • May 7, 2025 · 39 min

    Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls

    Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails)

  • Apr 23, 2025 · 32 min

    Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea

    Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails

  • Apr 9, 2025 · 34 min

    Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt

    Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show to tell us about building a small software company with Rails.

  • Feb 12, 2025 · 36 min

    Episode 532: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti

    Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. Joe is known as the Hotwire Native guy - he helps Rails developers build web-powered iOS and Android apps with Hotwire Native. He joins the show to talk about how Hotwire Native can help you build mobile apps out of your Rails apps.

  • Jan 22, 2025 · 33 min

    Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon

    This year, I want to expand the show in a new direction. I want to hear from startups and companies that are building with Rails. Today's episode feature John Nunemaker and Garrett Dimon who recently acquired Fireside.fm, the podcast hosting platform we use for this show.

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