Episode 546: Gearing up for Rails World, with Amanda Perino

Rails Foundation Executive Director Amanda Perino joins David to preview Rails World 2026, the conference’s first year in the United States.
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Episode 545: Post RubyConf conversation with Neha Abraham

Making new Ruby Friends is one of my favorite parts of attending conferences. Neha Abraham joins me to chat about RubyConf, Mental Health, Data Aggreg...

Episode 544: RubyConf 2026 Hallway Track

While at RubyConf, I caught up with several attendees and volunteers to discuss their experiences. These quick interviews have been collected for this...

Episode 543: Mike Dalton and Authentication Hell

Episode 542: Kyle D'Oliveira and the Fibonacci Funhouse

Episode 541: Markus Schirp and Mutation Testing

With AI seeming to generate more code every day, we need better tools to verify that it hasn't broken something. Maybe mutation testing can help us ge...

Episode 540: Jeremy Smith and Blue Ridge Ruby

Blue Ridge Ruby made a comeback in 2026 and Jeremy Smith joins the podcast to talk about how it went
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Episode 539: Travis Dockter and Blastoff Rails

Travis Dockter wanted a Ruby conference closer to home, so he made one. Today we chat about the ups and downs of putting together a brand new confere...

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...

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-t...

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 busines...

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 fr...

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...

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.
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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 bu...

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 feat...

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 g...

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.

Episode 528: Working In Tech With ADHD with Chris Ferdinandi

In the last few years, there’s been more awareness about ADHD in adults. We’ve learned that it’s more than hyperactivity and it’s not a deficit of att...

Episode 527: Evangelizing Rails with Irina Nazarova

We all love Ruby on Rails. You may remember that my first episode on this show was about whether Rails was still relevant. In the last few years, ther...

Episode 526: Rails World with Robby Russell

Nick and I recorded an episode at Rails World with Robby Russell. This is a test of new format we're running where we discuss Rails News. Robby joins...

Episode 525: Catching Up With Ruby Central with Marty Haught

Ruby Central has been a foundational part of the Ruby community since 2003. They organize Ruby Conf and Rails Conf and maintain critical Ruby infrastr...

Episode 524: Writing Code Using AI with Landon Gray

Large language models are everywhere now. They’re changing the way we work, from tools code completion tools like Copilot, to audio generation apps li...

Episode 523: Welcome Back, Nick Schwaderer

Our illustrious cohost Nick is back from parental leave! We talk about life as a parent and coder, committing to Ruby on Rails, being coworkers and fi...

Episode 522: Mentoring Junior Devs with Adam Cuppy

A recent focus of many in the community has been expanding the community. We all love Rails and want to create the best community possible. Part of th...

Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic

EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news ab...

Episode 520: Backend Accessibility with Hilary Stohs-Krause

In our last episode, we talked about Web Accessibility. But, did you know that there are accessibility concerns on the backend and in our interactions...

Episode 519: Joel Hawksley on Web Accessibility

Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on user interface architecture and strategy. For the last several years, he has been part of the...

Episode 518: Live From The Rails Conf Hallway Track!

While at Rails Conf, I caught up with several attendees and organizers to discuss their experiences. These quick interviews have been collected for th...

Episode 517: Rails Conf 2024 Crossover: Off The Rails

At Rails Conf 2024, I gathered several of our favorite ruby podcasters for a giant crossover episode! In this episode we have:
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Episode 516: Catching Up On The Rails Foundation with Amanda Perino

Over the last year, the Rails Foundation has been hard at work on several initiatives. After a successful Rails World last year, they’ve been working...

Episode 515: Livestreaming Code On Twitch with Rachael Wright-Munn

I am very excited for today’s episode! Twitch is a livestreaming service where users can stream themselves to the internet. Twitch is known for video...

Episode 514: Rails Camp! With Bobbilee Hartman

There are so many Ruby events happening recently, that it can be hard to know which one to go to. Today we’re going to talk about a rather unique even...

Episode 513: Modern Rails Apps Ayush Newatia

Rails 7 and Hotwire have completely revolutionized server side Rails apps. Developers can now get much more reactivity with way less javascript, less...

Episode 512: RailsConf With Ufuk Kayserilioglu

RailsConf is coming up fast! The program committee has released the schedule and keynote speakers. Ufuk Kayserilioglu joins the show to talk about the...

Episode 511: WebAssembly with Benjamin Eckel

You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a porta...

Episode 510: Burnout with Dr. Katy Cook

Burnout is a common occurrence in the tech industry. And the recent onslaught of layoffs have left many stressed about their job search, or overworked...

Episode 509: The Future Of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit

Recently, Ruby Central named a new executive director, Adarsh Pandit. Ruby Central has been a force in the Ruby community for years, organizing confer...

Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

Over the years, the performance of Ruby has improved quite a bit. One of the big recent performance improvements came from the development of YJIT ins...

Episode 507: Stephen Margheim on SQLite in Ruby on Rails Applications

If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might...