Ruby on Rails Podcast

#354: Rails Committer Heavy Hitter with Rafael França

January 20, 2021 at 8:00AM • 35 minutes

Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.

#353: Hanami 2.0 with Tim Riley

January 13, 2021 at 5:00AM • 42 minutes

Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. He guested on the show to discuss the eagerly anticipated Hanami 2.0 release, how dry-rb, rom-rb and Hanami partnered and how slices and containers work with one another.

#352: Haml Sparks Joy with Hampton Lintorn Catlin

January 6, 2021 at 7:00AM • 38 minutes

Hampton Lintorn Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more. Hampton is Co-Founder and CEO of Veue, a live streaming video platform. If you love Haml, this episode is for you.

#351: Educating on Speed from the CLI with Nate Berkopec

December 30, 2020 at 7:00AM • 42 minutes

Nate Berkopec is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, the creator of the Rails Performance Workshop, and the maintainer of Puma. He and Brittany discuss his unique take on his workshop and his experiences maintaining Puma.

#350: A Diverse Array of New Voices with Starr Horne

December 23, 2020 at 8:00AM • 33 minutes

Starr Horne is co-founder and one of the original developers of Honeybadger - an exception monitoring service with deep ties in the ruby community. Recently she has worked to bring a diverse array of new voices to Honeybadger's blog. She offers insightful advice on producing great content for developers.

#349: From Air Traffic Controller to Tech Lead with John Cech

December 16, 2020 at 8:00AM • 27 minutes

Based in Portland, Oregon, John Cech is a Senior Ruby Developer working at Planet Argon. John works on a wide-range of client projects as a Tech Lead and provides mentorship to interns and junior developers having started out there as a junior, himself.

#348: Chef Acquired and Leading from the Front (Brittany & Nick)

December 9, 2020 at 8:00AM • 33 minutes

Nicholas Schwaderer joined Brittany to discuss Chef's acquisition and how Brittany has been newly leading the Frontend team at TextUs. They wrap up with a recap of the Ryan Bates/Digital Ocean saga and a mystery topic.

#347: The Southwest Airlines of File Uploading with Colleen Schnettler

December 2, 2020 at 7:00AM • 30 minutes

Colleen Schnettler is an independent Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. She just launched her first product, Simple File Upload, and was eager to answer all of Brittany's questions about it and her experience with Active Storage.

#346: Elixir and Phoenix with Jesse Herrick

November 25, 2020 at 6:00AM • 33 minutes

Jesse Herrick is a software engineer based in Columbus, Ohio at Little Lines, a RoR development company. Jesse often works in Rails for work, but his main software passion is Elixir and Phoenix. He dazzles Brittany with how great Phoenix LiveView is.

#345: Packwerk with Maple Ong

November 18, 2020 at 8:00AM • 22 minutes

Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.