The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Hosted by Brittany Martin and Brian Mariani. Produced by Mirror Placement. Edited by Peachtree Sound.
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Episode 251: 251: An Honest Take on GraphQL with Ankita Gupta
Ankita Gupta works as an engineer at honestbee where she has been working on transitioning honestbee's monolith to smaller services. Brittany met Ankita at Rubyconf Malaysia and invited her to the show to discuss integrating GraphQL into a pre-existing Rails application. Links for this episode:honestbeehonestbee's GraphQL AppSlide Deck: Using and Optimising GraphQL with RailsGraphQL Batch by ShopifyAnkita on Twitter (@gazubi)Episode Music: "Please Wake Up" by Meydan
Episode 250: 250: Migrating Twitter from Rails & Powering Up with Linkerd with William Morgan
William Morgan, this week's guest, is a core maintainer of Linkerd and co-founder of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from monolith to microservices. Links for this episode:FinagleHow Twitter Lost the Internet War - Vanity FairLinkerdLinkerd on GithubLinkerd on Twitter (@linkerd)BuoyantBrittany on Twitter (@brittjmartin)William on Twitter (@wm)Episode Music: "Robot Cowboy" by Scanglobe
Episode 249: 249: Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 with Eileen M. Uchitelle
On August 15th, GitHub celebrated a major milestone: their main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! Upgrading Rails on an application as large and as trafficked as GitHub is no small task. Eileen M. Uchitelle, better known as @eileencodes, came on to the show to discuss the upgrade and supporting multiple databases in Rails 6. Links for this episode:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2Multi-Database Support in Rails 6@eileencodes on TwitterEileen's BlogRuby on IceEpisode Music: "Creative Minds" by BENSOUND
Episode 248: 248: Diving Into Ruby Weekly with Peter Cooper
Brittany chats with Peter Cooper, founder of Cooperpress. Cooperpress publishes weekly email newsletters to an audience of over 415,000 developers and software engineers, including Ruby Weekly. Links for this episode:Ruby WeeklyCooperpressRuby InsideBeginning RubyPeter Cooper on TwitterJulia Evan's BlogEpisode Music: Karaoke Mouse - "Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side's Alternate Take)"
Episode 247: 247: Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 with Javan Makhmali
Action Text is a new framework coming to Rails 6 to make it easier to create, edit, and display rich text content within an app. Brittany invited Javan Makhmali, programmer at Basecamp, on to the show to get the scoop. Links for this episode:Action Text on GithubTrix on GithubTrix HomepageJavan on Twitter (@javan)Javan on GithubEpisode Music: "Oxalis Triangularis" by Known Ocean
Episode 246: 246: Trust Arts, Trust Rails with Patrick FitzGerald and Danielle Greaves
Brittany put her tickets aside to invite her web team at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Patrick FitzGerald (Director of eCommerce) and Danielle Greaves (Frontend Developer) on to the show. They discuss their origin stories, their team dynamics and their favorite aspects of Rails. Links for this episode:The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Web TeamThe Pittsburgh Cultural Trust SiteQueue-itSidekiqJohnny: World's Cutest PuggleDanielle Greaves on TwitterEpisode Music: Comfort Fit - "Sorry"
Episode 245: 245: How I Got My First Pull Request into Rails with Nick Schwaderer
Brittany's official debut as the host of the podcast! Brittany invites Nick Schwaderer, Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ, on to the podcast to discuss meaningfully leveling up your open-source participation. They dive into Nick's first contribution to Rails core. Links for this episode:Nick Schwaderer's BlogThe Yak Shave PodcastNick's Rails ContributionCode TriageArt of Product PodcastEpisode Music: "Bust This Bust That" by Professor KliqAdmin
Episode 244: 244: Rails Community Survey 2018
Kyle talks with Robby and Corinne from Planet Argon about what they learned with this year's Rails Community Survey.
Episode 243: 243: A Surprise Rails 5.2 Appears!
Now that Rails 5.2 is production ready, Britt gives Kyle a tour of Rails 5.2 and all it's coolest, newest, hippest, frameworkiest new features.
Episode 242: 242: Let Me Get My Toolbox
This week the talented Brit talked to Christoph Olszowka about Ruby Toolbox, SimpleCov, and what's up with Ruby these days. What's in your toolbox?
Episode 241: 241: Upgrading Kickstarter to Rails 5 with Logan McDonald
Logan McDonald joins Britt to discuss upgrading Kickstarter's main applications to Rails 5. They discuss the steps they took and lessons learned from the upgrade. If you're still riding Rails 4, this episode is definitely for you.
Episode 240: 240: Rails is Stimulating
Coming back from hiatus, let's catch-up with Rails 5.1 & 5.2, the best parts of Rails in 2017, and the newest Javascript framework release of Stimulus. Rollbar With Rollbar’s error monitoring, you get the full stack trace, context, and user data to help you find and fix impactful errors super fast. Go to rollbar.com/ruby, signup, and get the Bootstrap Plan free.
Episode 239: 239: When You Type I Type We Type: Part 2
This week, Kyle has Jason Rudolph from GitHub's Atom team talking about Teletype, the new real-time collaboration package for Atom. This is part two of a two part episode. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code RAILS30).
Episode 238: 238: When I Type You Type We Type
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Episode 237: 237: The One About Webhooks
Brian wants to hear about webhooks so this is The Webhooks Episode. Learn about the tips and tricks for building a webhooks service, where you may run into trouble, and how to be a good consumer. Brought to you by: Digital Ocean (Get started today with a free 2 month trial of Spaces by going to do.co/ruby). HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit hellofresh.com and enter promo code RAILS30).