DEAR FRIENDS MERRY CHRISTMAS THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. WE LOVE YOU! - Adrian & Yaro This episode highlights the blend of coding, family, and festive reflections as we discuss personal milestones and the role of AI in development. We talk about the importance of community, the challenges of learning to code, and our plans for AVO and SuperRails in the New Year. • Enjoying holiday movies and traditions • Reflecting on errors in coding tutorials and real-world impac...
Dec 24, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Ever wondered how a simple Dutch treat became a beloved symbol in the Ruby and Rails community? Join us as we chat with Wes Oudshoorn, co-founder of AppSignal, who shares the delightful story of sending stroopwafels to conferences and customers since 2013. From nearly 500 kilograms of sweet goodness shipped this year alone to our serendipitous meeting in Thailand at Bangkok RB, Wes takes us through AppSignal’s journey of blending tech, community, and stroopwafels. We also dive into the core miss...
Dec 03, 2024•13 min•Season 3Ep. 8
After a busy conference season Yaro & Adrian take the time to talk about ongoing projects. AVO Black Friday deal: https://avohq.io/deals SupeRails Black Friday deal: https://superails.com/deals 0:00 Conferences 1:49 Avo Guest Blogposts 4:07 Rails 8 8:38 Avo Registration Flow 13:16 Avo Office Hours 15:25 SupeRails Office Hours? 16:47 SupeRails PRO 19:10 Hotwire Native 24:15 Moneygun 28:50 Avo Directory App, Avo Demo websites 32:00 Black Friday 34:00 Yaro is available 🦄 Join us as we explore ...
Nov 19, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Tom Rossi runs HigherPixels and Buzzsprout - the best podcasting app. We actually use Buzzsprout for this podcast! Buzzsprout has a very professional podcasting booth at Rails World. We are recording this episode from there! Buzzsprout also recently launched a mobile app using Hotwire/Turbo Native! Ever wondered how a tech company thrives by prioritizing teachability over experience? Higher Pixels' commitment to Ruby on Rails reveals the magic behind their rapid and successful app developme...
Oct 28, 2024•18 min•Season 3Ep. 6
What if you could transform your entrepreneurial dreams into reality with just a few strategic moves? Join us as we sit down with Andrew Culver, Chief Product Architect and Chief of Staff at ClickFunnels, during Rails World 2024 in Toronto 🇨🇦 Discover the inspiring journey of how Andrew transitioned from creating and eventually selling Churn Buster, to developing an open-source SaaS boilerplate, Bullet Train, which paved his path to becoming a key figure in the Ruby on Rails community. Not onl...
Oct 18, 2024•16 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Cirdes Henrique (@cirdesh) is the organiser of Tropical RB in Brazil 🇧🇷🌴 This year Adrian visited the first edition of the conference where met Cirdes and gave a talk. From the moment they met, Adrien knew Cirdes has that FRIENDLY DNA! Anyway What happens when a beachside tech gathering moves to the bustling urban landscape of São Paulo? Join us as we sit down with the dynamic Cirdes, co-host of Tropical on Rails, live from Rails World 2024 in Toronto. We share the electric atmosphere of the ...
Oct 05, 2024•16 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Discover the inspiring journey of Caleb Porzio, a pivotal figure in open source innovation, as he reveals the secrets to balancing a career fuelled by passion and financial stability. Transitioning from a conventional full-time job to a flourishing career centered around open source projects, Caleb underscores the significance of financial readiness and the autonomy that freelancing affords. His journey sheds light on how this path may be more attainable for younger individuals, who often have f...
Oct 03, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 3
We meet with the hosts of "Indie Rails" & "Code and the Coding Coders who Code it" in the Rails World podcast booth to share our emotions about the conference & what's coming in Rails 8 What happens when the best minds in the Rails and PHP communities come together? You get an unforgettable live recording at Rails World, Day 2! We're joined by Jeremy and Jess from Indie Rails, Drew Bragg from Code and the Coding Coders who Code It, and Adrian and Yaro from T...
Sep 29, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Ever wondered how one of the most popular PHP frameworks came to be? We've got you covered with an exclusive conversation with Taylor Otwell, the mastermind behind Laravel, recorded live at Rails World 2024. Taylor takes us on a fascinating journey from Laravel’s early days, inspired heavily by Rails, to its unique path with game-changing innovations like InertiaJS and Laravel Livewire. We discuss the evolution of Laravel's ORM, routing systems, and its impressive event-based system, j...
Sep 27, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We talk about: Adrians' worldwide conference tour in the first half of 2024 (Tropical RB, Singapore, Sin City) Yaro & Adrian spending time together at the French Riviera Upcoming conferences (EURUKO, Rails World, FriendlyRB) FriendlyRB plans & speakers Avo future plans (marketplace, no-code/low-code) Hiring for Avo Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Jul 05, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 9
One more cool cat from BalkanRuby! This time we talk to Rado ex-producthunt head of engineering, building his own product - AngryBuilding. He is the only developer and has a team of non-devs doing business stuff. He kindly reminds me that you don't always need reactivity, and full-page reloads are good. Enough for many B2B cases! You can learn a lot from Rado about building businesses with Rails. His new startup: https://angrybuilding.com Slides from his conference talks: https://rstankov.c...
Apr 29, 2024•11 min
Nick is one of the most fun exciting people to be around! He has a few superpowers: 1. Developing unique Ruby tools way ahead of their time He created Trailblazer as a better way to structure business logic in Rails apps than Services. Way ahead of DDD! https://github.com/trailblazer/trailblazer He created Cells that inspired ViewComponent https://github.com/trailblazer/cells 2. Presenting on stage. So far he did over 100 conference and meet-up appearances! He has a natural charm and can always ...
Apr 29, 2024•12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Since the first moment I met Genadi I felt “this guy is great to be around“! In this episode he talks about the 🇧🇬 ruby community, organising conferences, his current work and open source history. Find Genadi http://gsamokovarov.com/ Balkan Ruby https://balkanruby.com/ Join Sofia local ruby meetup https://rubybanitsa.com/ Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Apr 29, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week we are visiting Balkan Ruby in Sofia, Bulgaria. In this surprise mini-episode we discuss making $$ on dev tools with Irina Nazarova, CEO of very very Evil Martians! Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails
Apr 27, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 5
RailsConf is happening on 7-9 of May! And Ufuk is the lead organizer! He recently joined the Ruby Central board of directors. He is on the Shopify infrastructure team, working on making Ruby on Rails a better ecosystem 💪 We discuss: What makes RailsConf 2024 special? What is "RubyConf Hack Day"? Where does the ticket price come from? Why is RubyCentral so important to our community? Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Mar 14, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Steven is on a mission to make SQLite good enough for production. We talked about SQLite and Litestack contributing to open source being "the guy" in a niche, creating your own luck Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Join the dialogue with Amanda Perino, CEO of the Rails Foundation, as we unpack the intricacies and excitement of Rails World 2024. Amanda brings her unique perspective to the table, revealing the behind-the-scenes of organizing a top-tier conference in Toronto and how they're shaping it to be an even more engaging and community-driven event. We reminisce about past encounters that birthed our podcast and hear updates on both the Rails community's beloved doggo - Milo, and the technica...
Jan 30, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Join the conversation with the serial conference organizer Andy Croll, where we talk about how he started Brighton Ruby, why he's still doing it, how he's helping organize RailsConf this year, and about First Ruby Friend and why you should hire junior developers. https://brightonruby.com/ https://firstrubyfriend.org/ https://railsconf.org/ Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Jan 26, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Season 1 finale! Today we talk about: our reflections about 2023 and plans for 2024 Rails 8 features Highlights: 👶Being a young father ⛵️Sailing ✈️visited 5 Ruby events together 🍻met new Ruby friends 🎙️10x FriendlyShow podcast episodes 🎬68 videos & ✍55 blogposts 🥑All-in on AVO Will there be a Season 2? Let us know if you want one! Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Mariusz is an old friend of ours. Over the last few years, we've chilled 🍻 at many events around 🇪🇺 He works at an iconic ruby consulting shop in Warsaw, Poland ( Visuality ), where he was recently promoted from CTO to CEO. Mariusz gives back to the 💎 community by organizing local meetups (Warsaw, Lodz) and organizing conferences. In July 2023, he organized the first "Warsaw Community Conference" . Just 6 months later, he is organizing the second edition of Warsaw Community Co...
Dec 08, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Surprise surprise: we invited our friend Andrea to the FRIENDLY show! We talked about: 💰 How Andrea switched to programming and became CTO 🙆♂️ Everybody needs a Paul in their life! 👨🏻🍳 who stole the Hotwire Cookbook? 💅 Rails UI libraries 🦘 Ruby Australia Andrea on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ilrock__ Andrea on GitHub: https://github.com/ilrock Howire cookbook: https://hotwirecookbook.com 🦊 Flying foxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn ...
Nov 18, 2023•40 min•Ep. 8
I think it was one of our most chill, relaxed episodes. Take a break and join us as we discuss: Building a new Rails starter kit? Rails UI frameworks? GoodJob vs Sidekiq/Redis? Best way to do Multitenancy? Devise vs other authentication approaches? Avo 3 release date, Avo-2025 UI features Providing feedback to software How to make superails.com better? Show notes: Get Helvetic.rb tickets: https://helvetic-ruby.ch/ Helvetic.rb fondue evening RSVP: https://ruby.social/@marioschuettel/1112963554707...
Nov 02, 2023•36 min•Ep. 7
Adrian and Yaroslav completed a Triathlon by visiting 3 Ruby conferences in the span of 3 weeks! Today we meet to share our fresh emotions after visiting these amazing events. - EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference) took place in Vilnus, Lithuania (550 attendees) - FriendlyRB that was organized by Adrian in Bucharest, Romania (130 attendees) - The first ever RailsWorld conference was in Amsterdam, Netherlands (700 attendees) - Adrian gave an unconference talk about "Build Rails apps 10x faster&...
Oct 09, 2023•36 min•Ep. 6
André is a long-term maintainer for RubyGems and Bundler - fundamental tools of the Ruby community that we usually take for granted. 🎙️ He joins us to tell the exciting history of how RubyGems and Bundler were created and matured over the years, the challenges of working how the longevity of these tool 💰💰💰 Maintaining a LARGE open source project can become very expensive ( $500,000/month ) and about where this money comes from. André also talks about RubyCentral (organization that organizes ...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 5
Jonathan Markwell talks to us about the early days of SaaS, Remote work, and Brighton Ruby. He told us how Brighton Ruby came to be, how he met Andy Croll, and how they hosted two conferences in the same week 🤯 Jon shared the SaaS tool he’s been working on for a while now, and we brainstormed the cool and useful things a SaaS founder might use it on. The Skiff co-working space in Brighton. Cogrid - Monitor the Companies You Work With PlainScaling - Make your first million in calm revenue. Brigh...
Jul 11, 2023•52 min•Ep. 4
Today we speak with Nezir Zahirović, author of The Ruby On Rails Interview Bible, about how his first contact with technology and how he got started with development, about the tools he used, and more importantly about a few ideas of what to do to stand out in your future job applications. What is Nezir's favourite gem? devise The Interview Bible Nezir Zahirović on LinkedIn Nezir Zahirović on Twitter Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
Jun 21, 2023•33 min•Ep. 3
Today we talk about our awesome times at the Rails Saas conference in Athens last week. We touched on how well the conference was organized, the great talks, and the fantastic people we both met. We felt like in the presence of stars and online friends. We also spoke about how important it is to have activities planned outside the conference too and how the people make all the difference. Yaro making the slides on the spot Ruby philosophasion Emmanuel from Rails Changelog Beach photo by Julian C...
Jun 06, 2023•30 min•Ep. 2
This is our clumsy but spontaneous attempt at podcasting. We had a call on Sunday, scheduled for Thursday, and just went on the call to see how we fare. The rest is history. SupeRails YouTube SupeRails Avo admin for Rails Build Rails apps 10x faster with AVO Learn RoR 10x faster than Yaro did with SupeRails...
May 25, 2023•25 min•Ep. 1
