The Ruby on Rails Podcast

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Episode 253: 253: Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen Dec 18, 2018

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Jets is a framework that allows you to create serverless applications with Ruby. Tung Nguyen joined Brittany to discuss his passion for contributing to open source, DevOps and joining them together in the Ruby community.

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Episode 252: 252: Confident Ruby on Rails Testing with Jason Swett Dec 05, 2018

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Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Ruby Testing Podcast. Jason joined Brittany to discuss legacy Ruby on Rails applications: how to identify them and tackle their challenges from a testing standpoint.

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Episode 251: 251: An Honest Take on GraphQL with Ankita Gupta Nov 20, 2018

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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.

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Episode 250: 250: Migrating Twitter from Rails & Powering Up with Linkerd with William Morgan Nov 11, 2018

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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.

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Episode 249: 249: Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 with Eileen M. Uchitelle Nov 05, 2018

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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.

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Episode 248: 248: Diving Into Ruby Weekly with Peter Cooper Oct 18, 2018

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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.

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Episode 247: 247: Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 with Javan Makhmali Oct 11, 2018

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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.

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Episode 246: 246: Trust Arts, Trust Rails with Patrick FitzGerald and Danielle Greaves Oct 05, 2018

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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.

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Episode 245: 245: How I Got My First Pull Request into Rails with Nick Schwaderer Sep 26, 2018

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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.

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