The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 353: Rails Committer Heavy Hitter with Rafael França Jan 20, 2021

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Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify. He has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2012 and is the contributor with the most commits to the framework. He and Brittany discuss his confident release of Rails 6.1 and some hints for Rails 7.

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Episode 352: Hanami 2.0 with Tim Riley Jan 13, 2021

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Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. He guested on the show to discuss the eagerly anticipated Hanami 2.0 release, how dry-rb, rom-rb and Hanami partnered and how slices and containers work with one another.

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Episode 351: Haml Sparks Joy with Hampton Lintorn Catlin Jan 06, 2021

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Hampton Lintorn Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, and more. Hampton is Co-Founder and CEO of Veue, a live streaming video platform. If you love Haml, this episode is for you.

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Episode 350: Educating on Speed from the CLI with Nate Berkopec Dec 30, 2020

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Nate Berkopec is the author of the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, the creator of the Rails Performance Workshop, and the maintainer of Puma. He and Brittany discuss his unique take on his workshop and his experiences maintaining Puma.

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Episode 349: A Diverse Array of New Voices with Starr Horne Dec 23, 2020

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Starr Horne is co-founder and one of the original developers of Honeybadger - an exception monitoring service with deep ties in the ruby community. Recently she has worked to bring a diverse array of new voices to Honeybadger's blog. She offers insightful advice on producing great content for developers.

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Episode 348: 349: From Air Traffic Controller to Tech Lead with John Cech Dec 16, 2020

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Based in Portland, Oregon, John Cech is a Senior Ruby Developer working at Planet Argon. John works on a wide-range of client projects as a Tech Lead and provides mentorship to interns and junior developers having started out there as a junior, himself.

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Episode 347: 348: Chef Acquired and Leading from the Front (Brittany & Nick) Dec 09, 2020

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Nicholas Schwaderer joined Brittany to discuss Chef's acquisition and how Brittany has been newly leading the Frontend team at TextUs. They wrap up with a recap of the Ryan Bates/Digital Ocean saga and a mystery topic.

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Episode 346: 347: The Southwest Airlines of File Uploading with Colleen Schnettler Dec 02, 2020

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Colleen Schnettler is an independent Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. She just launched her first product, Simple File Upload, and was eager to answer all of Brittany's questions about it and her experience with Active Storage.

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Episode 345: 346: Elixir and Phoenix with Jesse Herrick Nov 25, 2020

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Jesse Herrick is a software engineer based in Columbus, Ohio at Little Lines, a RoR development company. Jesse often works in Rails for work, but his main software passion is Elixir and Phoenix. He dazzles Brittany with how great Phoenix LiveView is.

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Episode 344: 345: Packwerk with Maple Ong Nov 18, 2020

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Maple Ong is a health researcher turned software developer. She currently works on the Modular Monolith team at Shopify. Maple helped develop and open source Packwerk, a Ruby gem to enforce modularity in Rails applications.

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