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The Ruby on Rails Podcast

David Hill

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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  • Wednesday · 26 min

    Episode 553: The Ruby User Forum with Javier Cervantes

    Javier Cervantes, co-creator of the Ruby User Forum, joins me to discuss the limitations of Slack, Discord, and fragmented social media, the importance of connecting developers and open-source maintainers, and why talking with other people still matters in an increasingly AI-driven world.

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  • September 16 · 1 hr 16 min

    Episode 552: Hatchbox and GoRails in the age of AI with Chris Oliver and Collin Jilbert

    Chris Oliver and Collin Jilbert discuss how rapidly improving AI coding tools are reshaping the business behind GoRails, Jumpstart, and Hatchbox. They explore the decline of traditional developer education, the surprising ways AI has improved their own development workflow, and why those changes ultimately forced some difficult decisions about Hatchbox’s future.

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  • September 9 · 38 min

    Episode 551: Practical Hotwire with Jeremy Smith

    Jeremy Smith shares about his upcoming Practical Hotwire presentation and the massive amount of work that went into building it. They dig into common Hotwire pitfalls, Jeremy’s “Hot Ones”-inspired presentation format, and his spicy argument that Rails developers may be better off favoring Turbo Streams over Turbo Frames.

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  • September 2 · 27 min

    Episode 550: XORuby with Jim Remsik

    Jim Remsik of Flagrant joins the show to talk about the second year of XORuby and its mission to make in-person Ruby events smaller, more affordable, and more accessible.

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  • August 12 · 30 min

    Episode 547: Special Guest Andy Croll

    Andy Kroll joins me to talk about the changing Ruby conference landscape, how AI has altered the way developers work, and why traditional technical interviews may no longer make sense.

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  • August 5 · 31 min

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

    Rails Foundation Executive Director Amanda Perino joins the show to preview Rails World 2026 in Austin. Amanda shares what attendees can expect from the conference, how the Rails Foundation is adapting its work in response to AI, and how Rails World is balancing AI-focused sessions with the rest of the Rails ecosystem.

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  • July 1 · 38 min

    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 get there. Markus Schirp chats with us about the mutant gem and mutation testing.

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  • May 21, 2025 · 28 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

  • May 7, 2025 · 39 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)

  • Apr 23, 2025 · 32 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

  • Apr 9, 2025 · 34 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.

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