The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Edited by Redrum Creative.
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June 10, 202632 min
Episode 538: A New Host Has Appeared!
Rachael interviews the new host of the show, David Hill, to discuss his history with Ruby, his love for podcasting, and how much he loves meetups and conferences.
Show Notes
https://www.odetorailsconf.com/
http://rubygemspodcast.com/
https://www.remoteruby.com/
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May 21, 202528 min
Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke
Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end
Show Notes
https://userlist.com/
https://slowandsteadypodcast.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/benediktdeicke.com
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Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at flippercloud.io/rails and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
May 7, 202539 min
Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls
Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails)
Show Notes
www.betterwithbecky.com
www.gram.betterwithbecky.com
Sponsors
Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at [http://flippercloud.io/rails](http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
April 23, 202532 min
Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea
Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails
Show Notes
https://judoscale.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
https://bsky.app/profile/adamlogic.com
Sponsors
Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at [http://flippercloud.io/rails](http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
April 9, 202534 min
Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt
Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show to tell us about building a small software company with Rails.
Show Notes
letsjelly.com/rails
https://goodenough.us/
Sponsors
Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at [http://flippercloud.io/rails](http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
March 5, 202530 min
Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
Sponsors
Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at [http://flippercloud.io/rails](http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
February 12, 202536 min
Episode 532: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
Today's guest is Joe Masilotti, who wrote Hotwire Native for Hotwire Developers. Joe is known as the Hotwire Native guy - he helps Rails developers build web-powered iOS and Android apps with Hotwire Native. He joins the show to talk about how Hotwire Native can help you build mobile apps out of your Rails apps.
Show Notes
Hotwire Native For Rails Developers
Joe Masilotti’s Website
Sponsors
Hosting for The Ruby on Rails Podcast is provided by Fireside.fm. If you want to start a podcast and are looking for hosting, visit fireside.fm/rails to get started.
Alright, let’s talk about deploying code without having a full-blown panic attack. You ever push something live and immediately regret it? Like, ‘Oh no, I just nuked the homepage’? Well, guess what—Flipper’s got your back. Ship your code whenever you want, roll out features on your schedule, and if something goes sideways? Boom. Roll it back. No redeploy, no drama. Plus, you get multi-environment sync, audit history, and fine-grained permissions, so you don’t wake up to a ‘WTF happened?’ Slack message. Best part? Sign up at [http://flippercloud.io/rails](http:flippercloud.io/rails) and get 10% off your first year. Flip the switch and chill out.
January 22, 202533 min
Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon
This year, I want to expand the show in a new direction. I want to hear from startups and companies that are building with Rails. Today's episode feature John Nunemaker and Garrett Dimon who recently acquired Fireside.fm, the podcast hosting platform we use for this show. We talk about what it's like taking over a Rails app that was under different ownership!
Show Notes
[p3.dev](op3.dev)
[verygoodsoftware.company](verygoodsoftware.company )
[flippercloud.io](flippercloud.io)
[John's Website](johnnunemaker.com)
[Garrett's Website](garrettdimon.com)
January 2, 202537 min
Episode 530: Ask Elise Anything hosted by Rachael Wright-Munn
In this episode, Elise responds to listener submitted questions on everything from her career journey to how cooking relates to coding. With special guest host, Rachael Wright-Munn
December 11, 202431 min
Episode 529: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
This episode is a little off the Rails, but it was still fun catching up with our co-host, Nick Schwaderer.
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