The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Episode 539: Travis Dockter and Blastoff Rails

Travis Dockter wanted a Ruby conference closer to home, so he made one. Today we chat about the ups and downs of putting together a brand new conference.

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Episode 538: A New Host Has Appeared!

Rachael Wright-Munn returns as a guest host to introduce the new regular host of the podcast: David Hill

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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

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)

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

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.

Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer

Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.

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.

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.

Episode 530: Ask Elise Anything hosted by Rachael Wright-Munn

In this episode, Elise responds to listener submitted questions on everything from her career journey to how cooking relates to coding. With special guest host, Rachael Wright-Munn

Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer

This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.

Episode 528: Working In Tech With ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi

In the last few years, there’s been more awareness about ADHD in adults. We’ve learned that it’s more than hyperactivity and it’s not a deficit of attention. Many working in tech have ADHD and because we have a world built for neurotypicals, there can be unique challenges for those working in tech with ADHD. Today, Chris Ferdinandi joins the show to talk to us about how to thrive in tech with ADHD.