Ruby on Rails Podcast

#370: Samvera with Lea Ann Bradford

May 12, 2021 at 8:00AM • 19 minutes

Lea Ann Bradford is a senior software developer for Notch8, an agency that leverages the Samvera open source community. Lea Ann tells her story of learning to code after being a stay at home mom and she educates Brittany on all things Samvera.

#369: Frontend Bundlers & Snowpacker with Konnor Rogers

May 5, 2021 at 6:00AM • 23 minutes

Konnor Rogers is a software developer for Veue Inc. He is also the creator of Snowpacker, and he has a deep love for open source. He breaks down Frontend bundlers for Brittany and the up and coming vite_ruby.

#368: Inclusivity and Partner Support with Tay DeHerrera

April 28, 2021 at 7:00AM • 23 minutes

Tay DeHerrera is a Backend Software Engineer at TextUs. Tay and Brittany discuss getting involved in other initiatives at work and the importance of supporting (and sometimes humoring) a significant other who also writes software.

#367: Zapped with Purpose with Amy Nadboralski (Powder)

April 21, 2021 at 6:00AM • 20 minutes

Amy Nadboralski (aka Powder) is a (trans) woman that enjoys programming, video games, and tinkering with electronics. She is currently working primarily with the Ruby programming language as a principal software engineer at Vibes; a mobile engagement platform that helps companies create meaningful connections with their customers.

#366: I Believe in the Rails Magic with Brittany & Nick

April 14, 2021 at 7:00AM • 30 minutes

Nick Schwaderer co-hosts with Brittany this week. They discuss Nick's new job at Shopify (!), the interview process and working with the Ruby/Rails core team. They wrap with Nick's promise to discuss Stimulus but that quickly evolves to Hotwire.

#365: A Founder That Can Code with Sean Devine

April 7, 2021 at 7:00AM • 32 minutes

Sean Devine, CEO of XBE and former host of this show is back to discuss the success of XBE in the past year, the use of Ember at XBE and how if you're a founder that can code, you've already raised your seed round.

#364: Boring Rails & Creating Ruby Content with Matt Swanson

March 31, 2021 at 6:00AM • 26 minutes

Matt Swanson leads teams and builds products for customers at SEP, a software product design and development agency based in Indianapolis. He runs the blog Boring Rails. Brittany and he chat about producing Ruby content and Matt answers questions from listeners about his approach.

#363: ActiveModel::Errors with Mark Chao

March 24, 2021 at 6:00AM • 26 minutes

Mark Chao, or more well known as lulalala, is a happy rubyist from Taiwan. He works at GitLab, and likes to contribute to open source projects. He likes anime and has a hobby to self publish reviews into books/ebooks using Ruby libraries, git and InDesign. He and Brittany discuss ActiveModel::Errors.

#362: Ruby Garbage Collection and WNB.rb with Jemma Issroff

March 17, 2021 at 7:30AM • 29 minutes

Jemma Issroff is currently writing a book about managed garbage collection, with a focus on Ruby. She is passionate about making the tech industry a more inclusive space through teaching, mentoring, and community building. An avid Ruby blogger, she also writes the “Tip of the Week” for Ruby Weekly. Jemma has worked extensively as a backend and infrastructure software developer optimizing memory usage and performance in Ruby and Rails apps.

#361: Alacrity for Rails and Hiring with Jack Collier

March 10, 2021 at 7:30AM • 25 minutes

A force of positivity, Jack Collier is the co-founder and CTO of Atlantis Technology. Jack has been developing software for more than 20 years, and an enthusiastic Rails developer since 2005. He's worked on more than 75 different Rails projects of all shapes and sizes.