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▶  Chatting with a Rails Core Team 'Heavy Hitter' — Rafael França is a Principal Engineer at Shopify, Rails core team member, and has the most commits to the Rails codebase to his name (with even more than DHH). On this podcast he discussed how the Rails 6.1 release went and drops some hints about Rails 7.

▶  Discussing Hanami 2.0 with Tim Riley — Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. Hanami is an opinionated, MVC-leaning webapp framework – think a lighter weight, more modular alternative to Rails.

▶  Talking Haml with Hampton Catlin — Famous in the Ruby space as the creator of both Sass and Haml, it’s neat to hear from an old hand like Hampton. If you (still?) love Haml, this episode is for you.

▶  How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands — Brittany Martin, the usual host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast, guested on the Maintainable podcast to discuss the mistakes developers make when discussing technical debt with stakeholders and why it is important to write automated tests against a live/production API.

▶  'My Time with Rails is Up' Says Piotr Solnica — This week the Rails Podcast features Piotr Solnica, best known for his work on ROM.rb and dry-rb, where he discusses his work and why he ‘left’ Rails.

▶  Kuby and Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro — Do we need a Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage? Cameron says yes and offers up Kuby, a convention-over-configuration deployment system for Rails apps (featured above).

▶  Chipping Away at a Monolith — Tori Huang, software engineer at Gusto, and Brittany Martin of the Rails Podcast discuss Gusto’s ‘unbundling’ of part of their monolithic Rails app.

▶  Job Searching and Hiring Advice During the Pandemic — A timely episode for the employers hiring and the Ruby developers looking for work in these unprecedented times.

Rails::Engine with Vladimir Dementyev — Vladimir Dementyev is the author of AnyCable, test-prof and an advocate for building monoliths with Rails Engines.

▶  Discussing Rails Upgrades and Using Skunk for Scoring — A chat between Brittany Martin and Ernesto Tagwerker about blockers in upgrading Rails, tech debt and Ernesto’s ‘code smell’ scoring library, Skunk.

▶  How to Ask For The Job, with Brian Mariani — A follow up to a previously popular interview with the founder of a Ruby and Rails focused recruiting firm, this time talking about how to approach salary negotiations, finding a job as a Rubyist, and what the whole recruitment process is like.

▶  Discussing How Speed is a Feature at Shopify — A relatively brief 15 minute podcast episode with Gannon McGibbon, a developer at Shopify, talking about how he improves the ‘codebase health’ and performance of Shopify’s famously monolithic Rails app.

▶  Ruby for Good with Polly Schandorf — Polly Schandorf is an organizer of Ruby for Good, an hackathon-of-sorts about using Ruby to make the world “gooder”.

▶  When You HTTParty, You Must Party Hard with John Nunemaker — If you’ve been in the Ruby world for some time, John Nunemaker’s name will be familiar to you, but even if not, you’ve probably used HTTParty (or his work on GitHub) somewhere down the line. In this 42 minute interview, he talks about why he loves Ruby and Rails and the story behind...

▶  Recruitment on Rails with Brian Mariani — Brian Mariani, founder of Ruby on Rails focused recruiting firm ‘Mirror Placement’, joins Brittany to reveal how the Rails job market is doing, what accompanying technologies devs should learn, key interview tips and if the fabled ‘full stack developer’ is still relevant.

▶  How Rails on Windows is Now an Excellent Experience — Two weeks ago we linked to a post by esteemed Microsoftie Scott Hanselman where he proclaimed that developing with Ruby and Rails on Windows 10 is now fabulous. Now he’s on the Ruby on Rails Podcast discussing it in more depth with Brittany Martin.

▶  Discussing Sorbet, the Ruby Type Checker, with Paul Tarjan — Two weeks ago, we covered Stripe’s open sourcing of Sorbet, a powerful type checker for Ruby. In this brief 20 minute podcast, Sorbet’s technical lead explains the project.