The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 273: 273: GraphQL Migration: A Use Case for Metaprogramming with Shawnee Gao Jun 04, 2019

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Shawnee is a Fullstack Software Engineer on Square’s Business Operations Platform team. As a maintainer of a platform codebase, her work focuses on creating robust and scalable APIs and abstracting away lower level framework code. Which is what lead to her interest in ruby meta-programming and GraphQL!

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Episode 272: 272: Terrific Tech Bets with Sean Devine May 24, 2019

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Brittany welcomed back Sean Devine, former host of the Ruby on Rails podcast , and now CEO of XBE. Along with catching up, Sean and Brittany discussed betting on solid technologies and his advice for technical CEOs.

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Episode 271: 271: MEGA Railsconf 2019 Recap with Chris Oliver May 07, 2019

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Chris Oliver, creator of GoRails and co-host of the Remote Ruby podcast, joined Nick Schwaderer to discuss his experience at Railsconf 2019. They also dive into form builder changes, documentation and ponder when Rails 6 will be released.

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Episode 270: 270: Lamby & The AWS of T-Shirts with Ken Collins Apr 30, 2019

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Ken Collins is a Staff Engineer at Custom Ink focusing on DevOps and eCommerce in Rails. The minitest advocate recounted the origins of Lamby, a simple Rails & AWS Lambda integration using Rack with Brittany.

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Episode 269: 269: Fixing Flaky Tests Like a Detective with Sonja Peterson Apr 25, 2019

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Sonja Peterson is a senior software engineer at Devoted Health, working in Go and Typescript. Sonja guested on the show to speak with Brittany about her upcoming RailsConf talk, transitioning to Go and to spill on her favorite crime novels.

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Episode 268: 268: Origins of Discourse & Changing Your Developer Mindset with Sam Saffron Apr 18, 2019

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Sam Saffron is the co-founder of Discourse and previously a developer at Stack Overflow. He loves writing software, especially performance improvements in Ruby. Sam joined Brittany from Australia to discuss his blog post, "Why I stuck with Windows for 6 years while developing Discourse".

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Episode 267: 267: The Evolution of RubyMotion/DragonRuby with Lori Olson Apr 09, 2019

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RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript.

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Episode 266: 266: Dodging Ubuntu End of Life & Ruby on Rails DevOps with Justin Snair Apr 02, 2019

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Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications.

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Episode 265: 265: Rails 6 Showcase Showdown with Edouard Chin Mar 19, 2019

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Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.

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Episode 264: 264: Transitioning from Client Services to Products with Tom Rossi Mar 13, 2019

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Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small.

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