The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Elise Shaffer
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The Ruby on Rails Podcast, a weekly conversation about Ruby on Rails, open source software, and the programming profession. Co-hosted by Nick Schwaderer. Edited by Peachtree Sound.
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MAY 21, 2025
Episode 537: Userlist with Benedikt Deicke
Benedikt used to be a freelance software engineer and co-founded Userlist in 2017 as a side project with his co-founder Jane Portman. They went full-time on it in 2020. Benedikt enjoys database query optimization just as much as pushing around pixels on the front-end
28 MIN
MAY 7, 2025
Episode 536: Better With Becky with Becky Searls
Becky Searls is a teacher-turned-trainer, but her true passion is learning and continuous growth. She shares everything she learns through her business, Better with Becky, which recently launched its first product: a strength-training app called Build with Becky (which she built in collaboration with her husband Justin using Ruby on Rails)
39 MIN
APR 23, 2025
Episode 535: Judoscale with Adam McCrea
Today we’re continuing our series of highlighting startups building with Rails. Every app eventually runs into scaling requirements. Whether that’s from a spike in traffic or persistent growth. That’s why we have autoscaling. Judoscale is a tool to make autoscaling easy. Adam joins us to talk about building Judoscale with Rails
32 MIN
APR 9, 2025
Episode 534: Good Enough with James Adam and Cade Truitt
Good Enough is a company that makes Rails apps. They have quite a few products and all of them are built on Rails. Today James and Cade join the show to tell us about building a small software company with Rails.
34 MIN
MAR 5, 2025
Episode 533: Catching Up With Nick Schwaderer
Nick dropped by the (virtual) studio to talk about how things have been going in the ruby community.
30 MIN
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