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 services into one easy to use platform—it’s everything you need to keep production healthy and your cu ..read more

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. How can you spend more time shipping code and less time putting out fires? Honeybadger is how. I ..read more

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, Senior Software Engineer Our Vanna White of Guest Selection: Danielle Greaves, Lead Web Developer, Pittsb ..read more

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 lower your bills, it’s time to check out Honeybager. Honeybadger combines all of those services in ..read more

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 Brooke Perino (@AmandaBPerino) / Twitter Amanda Perino on LinkedIn Sponsored By: Honeybadger Honeyba ..read more

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 Milewski (@saramic) · Twitter Selena on Sessionize Michael on Sessionize Sponsored By: Honeybadger A ..read more

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@workforce.com London - Phil Fraser - philip@workforce.com Brisbane - Austin Wilshire - austin@tanda ..read more

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 Scaling Startups Rose W (@rose_w) / Twitter rose (@rose@ruby.social) Rose's Blog Sponsored By: Honeyb ..read more

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: Episode 431: For the Love of Consulting and the Cloud with Mina Slater Ruby on Rails Guides the Tightly ..read more

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 scarpe-team / scarpe schwad (@schwad_rb) / Twitter Hackety Hack - Wikipedia Bullet Train: The Ruby o ..read more