The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 333: 334: Simple Lovable Complete with Michael Springer Sep 02, 2020

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The announcer of the podcast, Michael Springer guested on the show. Michael is a software engineer at JazzHR and he spends his free time tinkering on hobbyist projects ranging from writing chat bots to building plastic robots.

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Episode 332: 333: Logic That Serverless Logic with Ken Collins Aug 26, 2020

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Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero & Principal Engineer at Custom Ink where he focuses on growing their DevOps culture within the Ecommerce teams. With a love for the Ruby programming language and serverless, Ken continues his open source Rails career by focusing on solutions that leverage AWS Lambda with Rails using a gem called Lamby.

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Episode 331: 332: 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey with Robby Russell Aug 19, 2020

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Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon. On his second appearance, he and Brittany review the results of the 2020 Ruby on Rails Community Survey.

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Episode 330: 330: Oh My Zsh & Maintainable Rails with Robby Russell Aug 12, 2020

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Making his first appearance since 2018, Robby Russell is back on the show. Robby is the creator of Oh My Z-Shell, host of the Maintainable Software Podcast, and CEO of Planet Argon, a software consultancy that improves existing Ruby on Rails applications and makes them more maintainable.

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Episode 329: 329: All My Best Programming Tips with Jason Swett Aug 06, 2020

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Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, author and the host of The Rails with Jason podcast. He and Brittany discussed bringing diversity into the podcasting space and some of his favorite tips from his blog post, "All my best programming tips".

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Episode 328: 328: rails new cool_app --minimal with Haroon Ahmed Jul 29, 2020

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This week, Brittany is joined by Haroon Ahmed, a programmer from Coventry, UK. He is a Hacker, Rubyist, and open source contributor. They discuss his latest contribution to Rails (--minimal) and how OS can open up career opportunities for developers.

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Episode 327: 327: JetBrains & RubyMine with Natalie Kudanova Jul 22, 2020

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Natalie Kudanova is a product marketing manager for JetBrains RubyMine, an IDE for Ruby and Rails developers. She helps the RubyMine team understand the needs of their users. In this short episode, she and Brittany discuss the best way to reach Ruby developers and IDE innovations.

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Episode 326: 326: Job Searching and Hiring Advice During the Pandemic with Brian Mariani Jul 15, 2020

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A timely episode for the employers hiring and the Ruby developers looking for work during the pandemic. After a heartfelt story, Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, revealed hiring patterns and honest advice for these unprecedented times.

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Episode 325: 325: [REPOST] Ruby Blend: Open Sourcing a Ruby Gem with Brittany Martin Jul 08, 2020

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Brittany guested on the Ruby Blend! The hosts counsel her on opensourcing her googlepay gem. They then dive into how important README's are, useful tools for documentation, a project from Evil Martians, a gem called Combustion, and RSpec API documentation.

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Episode 324: 324: Rails::Engine with Vladimir Dementyev Jul 01, 2020

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Vladimir Dementyev is a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang, contributing to open source and being an Evil Martian. He is the author of AnyCable, TestProf and an advocate for building monoliths with Rails Engines.

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