Nick Maloney is co-founder of The Gnar Company, a full service product consulting shop. Nick and Brittany discuss Gnar's project for the State of Massachusetts to build out an automated background check system. Nick shares why Rails is their default stack and why he is particularly impressed with the direction of the front-end happening in Rails 7. Show Notes: The Gnar Company The Gnar Company Blog Nick Maloney on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower y...
Jul 26, 2023•28 min
Brittany and Nick sync up after Nick's one-night-only talk at Brighton Ruby 2023. It wouldn't be a recap without the conference organizer so they were lucky to find Andy Croll free to fill them in on why he continues to run the event and his thoughts on the uptick on conference attendance. Show Notes: Brighton Ruby Conference Andy Croll's personal site scarpe-diem Discord Server Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager....
Jul 19, 2023•35 min
Andrew Culver is a long-time Rails developer and creator of Bullet Train, a SaaS framework for Rails, and the organizer of The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece. Brittany was excited to have him on the show to talk about his hacker origins, his latest event in Athens, and to discuss why Rails World sold out in 45 minutes. Show Notes: Bullet Train: The Open Source Ruby on Rails SaaS Framework The Rails SaaS Conference Laravel Spark Photos from Andrew's Hacker Pha...
Jul 12, 2023•37 min
Mere minutes before this episode was recorded, YARP was merged! Kevin Newton joins Brittany and Jemma this week to share the exciting news. The trio discuss the follow up steps for YARP, whether a marketing push for adoption will be needed and how Kevin and Jemma partnered on the initiative. Show Notes: Episode 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton ruby/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser Mirror ruby/yarp into ruby/ruby #7964 RubyConf TH 2023 Kevin Newton (@kddnewton)...
Jul 05, 2023•33 min
Megan Marquardt-Ray is an Engineering Manager from Included Health. She leads a team of software engineers who build out mobile and web experiences that help people get to high quality healthcare. Before Included Health, she worked at an education startup, bloc, where she first stepped into a managing role. She and Brittany talk about what it means to be a part of a software community, how to draft career ladders, hiring and how to ensure your engineers are progressing. Show Notes: Included Heal...
Jun 28, 2023•33 min
Rocky Mountain Ruby is baaaaaack! Conference organizer, Spike Ilacqua, joined Brittany to discuss why he was bringing the conference back to life in Boulder, CO on October 5th and 6th, 2023. They talk about the advice he has gotten, the open CFP and funding the conference. The wrap up talking about how Spike finds AI kinda cool and kinda scary. Show Notes: The Return of Rocky Mountain Ruby Sponsor Rocky Mountain Ruby Rocky Mountain Ruby CFP Blue Ridge Ruby Spike's Blog Sponsored By: Honeybadger ...
Jun 21, 2023•29 min
Former host of this podcast, Kyle Daigle is the Chief Operating Officer at GitHub. Kyle joined GitHub in 2013 and built and scaled the Ecosystem Engineering teams and worked on the acquisitions of Semmle, npm, and others. He now oversees culture, operations, and communications for the business. He fills Brittany in on all of the exciting initiatives happening at GitHub: GitHub Accelerator, GitHub Fund, GitHub Sponsors and their new research on developer workflow and productivity with AI. Show No...
Jun 14, 2023•44 min
Making his podcast debut, Cody Norman is a former Loan Officer and current Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. He enjoys mentoring, working with early career developers and is an Engineering Mentor at The Agency of Learning. He joins Brittany to discuss personal branding, the importance of showing up every day and how he approaches mentoring early career developers. Show Notes: Cody Norman's Blog First Ruby Friend: Find a mentor in the Ruby community The Agency of Learning cnorm35 - Cody Norma...
Jun 07, 2023•32 min
Victoria Guido, Managing Director of Business Development and DevOps Strategy, and Joe Ferris, CTO, of thoughtbot stop by to talk about Victoria's recent trip to Ruby Kaigi, thoughtbot's contributions to the Ruby / Rails communities, goals for their podcasts, Platform Engineering for Ruby on Rails engineers and the thoughtbot Incubator program. Show Notes: thoughtbot Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Mission Control's AWS Platform Guide mrsked / mrsk thoughtbot Incubator victori_ousg...
May 31, 2023•30 min
The moderator of Ruby Committers and the World, Jemma, answers all of Brittany's questions about her recent trip to Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan for RubyKaigi 2023. The pair talk about Matz's keynote, the panel and Jemma's recent work on YARP. Show Notes: RubyKaigi 2023 Field Report: RubyKaigi Shopify/yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser Stan Lo Rbspy Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those serv...
May 24, 2023•27 min
Brittany and Nick are back together again! Brittany talks about on boarding as an Engineering Manager at Shogun as a Shogie. The two discuss standup preferences, multi-timezone communications, bonding over incidents and Nick's latest venture: rChat. Show Notes: Shogun Geekbot - Run standup meetings in Slack scarpe-team / scarpe ChatGPT Sponsored By: Honeybadger As an Engineering Manager or an engineer, too much of your time gets sucked up with downtime issues, troubleshooting, and error tracking...
May 17, 2023•33 min
Listen to Brittany Martin (The Ruby on Rails Podcast), Jason Charnes (Remote Ruby) and Paul Bahr (Peachtree Sound) as they interview guests from the community on a live podcast at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, GA. Guest #1: Aaron Patterson, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify Guest #2: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians Guest #3: Voted on by the community in an online poll: Justin Searls, Meta Programmer at Test Double Guest #4: Voted on by the community live at this session: Britni Alexander, Senio...
May 10, 2023•37 min
Joël and Drew join Brittany post-conference to discuss their experience at Railsconf 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. The trio thank the organizers, share tales from speaking and discuss their favorite talks. They wrap by discussing the new Ruby Central individual memberships and their conference plans for the rest of the year. Show Notes: The Bikeshed Code and the Coding Coders who Code it Railsconf In Favor of Ruby Central Memberships Sponsored By: Honeybadger If you want to simplify your stack, and ...
May 03, 2023•38 min
Amanda Perino is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Rails Foundation. Brittany interviewed Amanda and the pair discuss all of the exciting initiatives coming out of the Foundation, the Rails community members who are helping with the efforts and advice coming from other software communities. Show Notes: The Rails Foundation Rails World This Week in Rails newsletter The Rails Changelog Podcast Suggestion Form to send ideas to the Rails Foundation the Tightly Coupled Book Club Amanda Br...
Apr 26, 2023•33 min
Selena Small and Michael Milewski are a pair of Senior developers from Melbourne, Australia that not only love to pair on code but getting ready for a world tour of conference talks. Fresh off the roles as co-MCs for Rubyconf AU, the pair speak with Jemma and Brittany about why they are advocates for pairing, some pairing horror stories and how they would describe the Australian Ruby community. Show Notes: Failure Driven Failure Driven on Twitch Selena Small (@selenasmall88) / Twitter Michael Mi...
Apr 19, 2023•32 min
Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Workforce.com, a workforce management product built on Ruby on Rails. The topic of hiring Juniors has been a common theme lately but he joins Brittany and Brian to discuss why companies are actually avoiding it. The trio debate in-office training, salaries and promotions. Show Notes: Workforce.com Why companies don't hire juniors by Alex Ghiculescu If you want to learn more about working at Workforce.com, reach out to: Chicago - Stacey McKnight - smcknight@wo...
Apr 12, 2023•34 min
Rose Wiegley is a Senior Staff Developer on Shopify’s Payments and Risk team. Jemma is solo hosting today as she interviews Rose about her thoughts on being a staff engineer at Shopify, keynoting at RubyConf Mini and her recent team switch at Shopify. Show Notes: What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify by Rose Wiegley RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote by Rose Wiegley NormConf Talk: Data Driven Promotions Alex Terrasa’s talk, "Here be dragons" ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Sca...
Apr 05, 2023•35 min
Mina Slater (she/her) is a senior developer with Mission Control, thoughtbot's DevOps, platform engineering and SRE team. Aji Slater (they/them) is a development team lead at thoughtbot on Lift-Off, thoughtbot’s team that specializes in new product development and launch. Together, they guest on the podcast to discuss their new podcast: The Tightly Coupled Book Club. They pitch the concept to Brittany, ask Brittany for advice and discuss feedback from Brittany's initial listen. Show Notes: Episo...
Mar 29, 2023•36 min
What is Nick? Well, Nick has a thing! He tells Brittany all about his new project: Scarpe. From there, Brittany steals some free consulting from Nick when she presents an authentication problem she is trying to tackle on a side project. Nick shares his experience at a coveted Sandi Metz workshop and they wrap on a personal update from Brittany. Show Notes: Shoes! The easiest little GUI toolkit, for Ruby why-archive/nobody-knows-shoes.pdf at master - GitHub Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.26.0.1 - GitHub s...
Mar 22, 2023•35 min
Colleen Leonard has been working in tech since 2015, first as a Front-End Developer and then as a recruiter. She is currently a Technical Recruiter at Test Double. She joins Brittany to chat technical recruitment in Part 1 and then roller derby in Part 2. Let's roll. Show Notes & Links: You can follow Colleen on the following platforms: Colleen Leonard / LinkedIn Colleen Leonard (@_colleenleonard) / Twitter Colleen Leonard on (@ccleonard ) / Mastodon You can follow Test Double on the followi...
Mar 15, 2023•34 min
In 2022, Rails Hiring is Still Hot was our most listened to episode! By popular demand, Brian is back to give us the state of the Ruby on Rails hiring market for 2023. Brittany and Brian discuss his clients, advice for those who have a job and advice for those who are seeking a role in this weird market. Show Notes & Links: Episode 419: Rails Hiring is Still Hot (Brittany + Brian) Mirror Placement Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with...
Mar 08, 2023•33 min
Jeremy Smith is a designer/developer who runs a tiny one-person web studio called HYBRD. Mark Locklear is a Web Developer and Project Manager at the Extension Foundation. Together, they are co-hosting Blue Ridge Ruby, a two-day, single-track conference featuring ten speakers, plus lightning talks. The conference will be held at the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Asheville on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th. Show Notes: Blue Ridge Ruby Sponsor Blue Ridge Ruby HYBRD IndieRails Podcast...
Mar 01, 2023•32 min
Brittany has a trio today! Adam Cuppy, Sarah Proctor and Chelsea Kaufman from LEARN Academy join her to discuss the academy's origin story, curriculum and how they garner interest for their program. They dive deeper into their internship program and how an internship is one of the most accessible ways to start bringing juniors into the team. Show Notes & Links: LEARN academy 3-Day Jumpstart Bootcamp | LEARN academy Partners | LEARN academy Adam Cuppy on LinkedIn Sarah Proctor on LinkedIn Che...
Feb 22, 2023•41 min
Emmanuel Hayford is an independent Rails Consultant and a co-editor of "The Weeks in Rails". He excitedly tells Brittany his favorite upcoming features for Rails 7.1 and his favorite features that shipped with Ruby 3.2. They wrap the episode discussing why community content is so important. Show Notes & Links: This Week in Rails TryRuby: Learn programming with Ruby An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part I Ruby 3.2.0 Released Rad Ruby Emmanuel Hayford on Twitter (@siaw23) Sponsored B...
Feb 15, 2023•27 min
Kevin Murphy is a software developer in the Boston area, currently working at Bookbub. After discussing Kevin's first commit into Ruby(!), he and Brittany discuss the long-term benefits and effects of community involvement, including speaking. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kevin's tour promo at the end of the episode! Show Notes & Links: Contributing to Ruby Docs Ruby's Coverage Module Kevin Murphy's website Kevin Murphy on Mastodon Kevin's Blog Post Series about having an MBA Kevin's contr...
Feb 08, 2023•26 min
After taking a moment to talk about Chris Seaton's impact on the community, Nick tells Brittany about his adventures in TruffleRuby and Hatchbox. They also discuss how Shopify removed all recurring meetings with more than two people in perpetuity to encourage more focus time. Show Notes & Links: Chris Seaton oracle/truffleruby - GitHub postmodern/chruby: Changes the current Ruby - GitHub Hatchbox.io Roda: Routing Tree Web Toolkit - Jeremy Evans Shopify tells employees to just say no to meeti...
Feb 01, 2023•31 min
Captured live from Rubyconf 2022 Home Edition on January 11th, 2023, this is a special episode recorded with the Hanami Core Team: Luca Guidi, Tim Riley and Peter Solnica. Co-moderated by Jason Charnes and Brittany Martin. Moderated By: Jason Charnes, Remote Ruby Brittany Martin, The Ruby on Rails Podcast Panelists: Luca Guidi Tim Riley Peter Solnica A special thanks to the organizers of Rubyconf @ Home for making this happen! Show Notes: Hanami dry-rb ROM Roda decafsucks / decafsucks Sponsor Ha...
Jan 25, 2023•50 min
Brittany guested on Ruby for All this week! She joins Julie J to talk about why integrations are important to developers and why integration knowledge can give Juniors a leg up in hiring. They also discuss the differences between APIs and webhooks and review a real world example. Show Notes & Links: Ruby for All Sponsored By: Honeybadger Status Pages now come with incident management! Build confidence with a public status page that shows your live service status, incident history, and more—a...
Jan 18, 2023•31 min
After reflecting on their 2022 resolutions, Brittany and Jemma talk about their resolutions for 2023. Afterwards, Brittany congratulates Jemma on shipping Object Shapes in Ruby 3.2, asks what is in store for her next and why everyone should upgrade to Ruby 3.2. They wrap up the episode talking about team changes at TextUs. Show Notes & Links: Episode 399: New Year's Resolutions & Mediocrity with Brittany and Jemma Ruby 3.2.0 Released Shopify/yjit: Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRu...
Jan 11, 2023•26 min
The podcast voice is back! Andy Croll is starting 2023 off right by joining Brittany to discuss the process they went through at CoverageBook to hire a junior developer. The timing is perfect because TextUs was also hiring a Junior developer so Brittany cons Andy into sharing a bunch of free advice. Happy New Year, listeners! Show Notes & Links: CoverageBook Episode 384 - The TextUs Junior Trio with Saundra Catalina, Jeff Golden and Luke Mason My First Ruby Friend One Ruby Thing - Andy Croll...
Jan 04, 2023•34 min
