Remote Ruby

Hosted by Chris Oliver, Andrew Mason, David Hill

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Rubyists having conversations and interviewing others about Ruby and web development.

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October 23, 2026Episode 37351 min

Jeff Dickey is Back

Jeff Dickey is back on Remote Ruby, and he's been busy! Andrew and Chris catch up with Jeff to discuss the latest improvements to mise, including precompiled Ruby builds, automatic tool updates, and dotfile management. Jeff also introduces some of his newest projects, including packslip, a new standard designed to make software distribution more secure, and jactionlint, his modernized GitHub Actions linter. The conversation explores everything from managing secrets with fnox and cleaning up massive Rust build caches to running your own CI infrastructure at home. They also dive into AI-assisted development, the future of Ruby performance, and how AI is changing the way open source software gets built and maintained. Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Jeff Dickey Website Jeff Dickey X Entire Remote Ruby-Episode 341: Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more mise Omarchy actionlint packslip jactionlint fnox mr boxington tak usage-rs aqua hk Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

October 16, 2026Episode 3721 hr 5 min

Welcome to the Slop Factory

On this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David dive into the rapidly changing world of AI-assisted development, Ruby performance, and the future of building software. They kick things off with AI-powered coding workflows before exploring the Campfire benchmarking controversy and the exciting possibilities of Roundhouse, which could dramatically improve Ruby application performance. Andrew shares his experience launching a new AI agent inside Podia, including the challenges of getting its MCP integration approved by OpenAI, managing AI costs, and testing security. The conversation shifts to optimizing GitHub Actions, reducing CI expenses, and whether developers should start hosting their own runners. They also speculate about the future of all-in-one development platforms and how AI might reshape everything from writing code to deploying applications. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift What’s New in RubyGems/Bundler 4.1, Part 1: override and prune (by SHIBATA Hiroshi) Roundhouse-GitHub JP Camara X Matt Swanson X RWX Blacksmith Digger Street Fighter Gears of War: E-Day (game) AnyPS5-GitHub Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

October 9, 2026Episode 3711 hr 8 min

Rails World 2026 Recap with John Athayde

Fresh off Rails World 2026, Chris, Andrew, David, and returning guest John Athayde unpack the surprisingly emotional conversation surrounding AI, Ruby, Rails, and the future of programming. What starts as a discussion about Spinel, Roundhouse, Rust, and Rails performance quickly turns into a much bigger question: what happens to developers when writing code is no longer the main job? They dig into AI-assisted development, changing ideas around craftsmanship and creativity, the growing importance of testing and CI, and whether frameworks like Rails become more valuable in an AI-driven world. They also reflect on the mood at Rails World, autonomous cars, AI-generated design, and why the real value of conferences may increasingly be simply getting developers together in the same room. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift John Athayde Website John Athayde X Sanket Sahu X Post- GeekyAnts landing page Spinel- Ruby AOT Compiler-GitHub Rails World 2026 Talks Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

October 2, 2026Episode 37032 min

Live At Rust, Uhh, Rails World 2026

Recorded live from Rails World 2026, Andrew, Chris, David, Jason Charnes, and eventually Andy Croll, unpack the strange mood surrounding this year’s conference. Much of the conversation centers on DHH’s keynote and the increasingly agent-driven future of software development: if AI can write, debug, and even understand the code for us, what happens to the value of frameworks, developer expertise, documentation, and even Ruby itself? They also dig into Hotwire, Active Search, Herb, Active Job Continuations, security concerns around AI-generated software, and what the Ruby community might rally around if the language becomes less central to how developers identify themselves. And because it’s Rails World, there’s plenty of barbecue, conference chaos, bad jokes, and Andy Croll crashing the podcast. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Jason Charnes Website Andy Croll Website Buzzsprout Terry Black’s BBQ Burnt End BBQ PlanetScale RubyMine AppSignal Rails World 2026 Talks (YouTube) Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. BuzzSprout Podcast Hosting Made Easy. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

September 28, 2026Episode 36955 min

Rails at Scale, Roundhouse Performance, and AI-Era Supply Chain Security

Andrew and Chris are back with a packed episode covering everything from Rails World anticipation and Rails 8.2 to security, Ractors, AI-assisted development, and some ambitious new Ruby tooling. They dig into RubyGems recent spam-publishing incident and Trusted Publishing, look at Shopify’s push toward Ractor-safe Rails, and explore Roundhouse, a project experimenting with compiling Rails applications into entirely different target languages. They also talk about using Claude for project planning and open source maintenance, new approaches to AI beyond traditional LLMs, the surprisingly inexpensive architecture behind Turbopuffer, PlanetScale’s new TIN search extension, and Andrew’s move from a small Sinatra deployment service to Cloudflare Workers. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Automating Ruby Gem Releases with GitHub Actions (by Andrew Mason) Marc Benioff MOGGED Sam Altman (John Smith X Post) @graphtheory X Post Ractor-age Rails: A Hot-To Guide (Rails at Scale) Roundhouse Introducing System One Models & Jev (TypeSafe AI blog post) Turbopuffer Ben Dicken X post (on inverted indexes) Planet Scale: Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres Cloudflare Workers Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

September 18, 2026Episode 36852 min

Navigating the Labyrinth of Webhooks and APIs

Chris, Andrew, and David are back with a conversation that starts with Rails World plans. They break down APIs, webhooks, and persistent connections, using everything from thermostats to Stripe to explain how systems communicate and recover when things go wrong. From there, Chris shares what caught his eye in PlanetScale’s new Postgres sharding work, before the conversation shifts heavily toward AI-assisted programming, where the tools are surprisingly capable one minute and making baffling architectural decisions the next. They also explore how AI is changing Chris’s work on Jumpstart and Hatchbox, improving Rails actionable errors, tackling years-old Android bugs, and potentially reshaping how open source projects are maintained. Press download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift I ntroducing Neki (PlanetScale blog post) The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query (blog post) PlanetScale Blog Rails is built for AI. Agents on Rails: Stage 2. Can a model ship a feature? (Posted by Svyatoslav Kryukov, Artur Petrov, Alexander Baygeldin) Surfguard-GitHub Omachee Meat Proxy Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

September 11, 2026Episode 3671 hr 4 min

Episode 367 - Ryan Castillo

Ryan Castillo returns to the show to catch everyone up on what’s changed since his last appearance…and a lot has changed. Ryan explains why he and his co-founder moved on from their web application firewall Wafris and built Knowatoa, a platform focused on helping companies understand how their brands appear in AI-powered search. From there, the conversation expands into GEO and AI search visibility, multi-agent coding workflows, AI skills as the future of content, and when developers should or shouldn’t delegate work to AI. Chris also gets candid about Hatchbox’s recent pricing increase, the financial pressure behind the decision, and why talking directly with customers may be just as important as shipping the next feature. Hit download now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Ryan Castillo X Ryan Castillo LinkedIn Knowatoa Wafris Hatchbox How I Use Cursor by @poteto Skills from A Smart Bear by Jason Cohen Rocky Mountain Ruby-September 28-29, 2026, Boulder, Colorado Rails World, Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, Texas Upcoming Ruby Events Calendar Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

September 4, 2026Episode 3661 hr 2 min

Rails World Prep, Herb in Rails, Stacked PR Headaches and New Ruby Tooling

This week, Chris, Andrew, and David dig into a packed mix of Rails news, developer tooling, and the increasingly complicated role AI is playing in everyday coding. They talk about Herb making its way into Rails, the realities of Rails upgrades and stacked PRs, new approaches to Git hosting and object storage, and how Rails is being evaluated in the age of AI agents. They also get into improvements coming to Action Text, Podia’s approach to “flavored” Markdown, the never-ending frustrations of HTML email, and why tools like ArchSpec and Rubydex could become especially useful as more code is generated by LLMs. Hit download now to hear more! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Rails World-Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, TX Add Herb as an HTML -aware ERB implementation #58552 (GitHub pull request) turbopuffer Agents on Rails: The LLM Benchmark Project (Rails Foundation) Agents on Rails : The First Benchmark Report Tiptap ArchSpec Rubydex Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

August 28, 202633 min

MCP Implementations and Rails World Preparations

Andrew and David catch up on everything from wild weather and the upcoming Rails World conference to Andrew’s latest deep dive into MCPs (Model Context Protocols). Andrew shares what he’s learned while building an MCP for a Rails side project, including choosing the official Ruby MCP SDK, discovering the limitations of resources versus tools, and wrestling with OAuth and Doorkeeper authorization. They also look ahead to Rails World in Austin, highlighting talks on Active Search, Ractors, Herb, Action Text, Solid Cable, custom Rails generators, and appropriately enough MCPs. Links: Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift The Ruby on Rails Podcast-Episode 548-MCP + Generators with Andy Andrea and Rachael Wright-Munn MCP server MCP Ruby SDK-GitHub Doorkeeper-GitHub Rails World- Sept 23-24, 2026, Austin, Texas Rails World Talks Herb-GitHub ReActionView Solid Cable-GitHub Sponsors: Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter

August 21, 2026Episode 36454 min

Ernesto Tagwerker

Ernesto Tagwerker joins Chris, Andrew, and David, to talk about how AI is changing Rails development, consulting, and the way teams approach upgrades and maintenance. They discuss using Claude Code for Rails upgrades, the risks of relying too heavily on AI-generated tests and code, and why strong development standards are becoming even more important. The conversation also explores code quality, open AI models, team consistency, and how developers can use AI to work more efficiently without giving up the experience and judgment that good software still requires. Start listening now! Links Chris Oliver X Andrew Mason Bluesky David Hill LinkedIn Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Ernesto Tagwerker LinkedIn Ernesto Tagwerker GitHub FastRuby.io OmbuLabs Remote Ruby-Episode 100!! Upgrading Rails with Ernesto Tagwerker Blastoff Rails 2026- Fewer Tests, More Confidence by Ifat Ribon (YouTube) Rails Upgrade Assistant Skill (OmbuLabs Claude Code Skill) FastRuby-Our Rails Upgrade Methodology as Claude Skills Mutant-GitHub Philly.rb Meetup Philly.rb X Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter