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- 🇨🇦CA · Technology#1815K to 30K
- 🇩🇪DE · Technology#1875K to 30K
- 🇧🇷BR · Technology#3830K to 100K
- 🇪🇸ES · Technology#1261K to 10K
- 🇰🇪KE · Technology#106500 to 3K
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Nikky Southerland: Lessons from 13 Years of Rails at the Auto Shop
Jun 30, 2026
1h 08m 11s
DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails
Jun 12, 2026
59m 42s
Tom Rossi: Staying as Rails as Possible
May 15, 2026
1h 11m 12s
Jason Meller: Rails, Security, and the AI Advantage
May 6, 2026
1h 11m 31s
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
Apr 22, 2026
1h 51m 30s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/30/26 | Nikky Southerland: Lessons from 13 Years of Rails at the Auto Shop | Robby is joined by Nikky Southerland, Lead Software Engineer at Shop-Ware — a cloud-based platform that helps independent automotive service shops run their businesses. Ruby on Rails has powered Shop-Ware since the first line of code was written back in 2013, and more than a decade later the codebase is still 90%+ Rails. Robby talks with Nikky about what it actually takes to keep a mature Rails app moving with a team roughly half the size it used to be, including a frontend migration that's s... | 1h 08m 11s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails✨ | software developmentAI in coding+4 | David Heinemeier Hansson | Basecamp 5Basecamp+2 | — | David Heinemeier HanssonBasecamp 5+6 | — | 59m 42s | |
| 5/15/26 | Tom Rossi: Staying as Rails as Possible✨ | Railspodcasting+3 | Tom Rossi | Higher PixelsBuzzsprout | — | RailsBuzzsprout+5 | — | 1h 11m 12s | |
| 5/6/26 | Jason Meller: Rails, Security, and the AI Advantage✨ | Railscybersecurity+3 | Jason Meller | Kolide1Password+1 | — | Railscybersecurity+5 | — | 1h 11m 31s | |
| 4/22/26 | Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom✨ | AIEngineering+3 | Brian Scanlan | Claude CodeIntercom | Rails | AI-FirstIntercom+3 | — | 1h 51m 30s | |
| 4/13/26 | Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple✨ | DNSRuby on Rails+3 | Simone Carletti | DNSimpleRails Foundation+3 | — | DNSimpleRails+5 | — | 1h 45m 52s | |
| 12/9/25 | Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself✨ | testingRails+3 | Jay Tennier | Rainforest QA | — | Rainforest QARails monolith+3 | — | 1h 40m 03s | |
| 11/19/25 | Kayla Reopelle: What Your Rails App Is Trying To Tell You✨ | observabilityRails development+5 | Kayla Reopelle | Ruby AgentOpenTelemetry RubyGems+2 | — | observabilityRails+6 | — | 1h 02m 09s | |
| 11/3/25 | Miguel Conde & Peter Compernolle: Inside Gusto’s Rails Biolith✨ | Rails monolithsHIPAA compliance+3 | Miguel CondePeter Compernolle | Gusto | — | RailsGusto+5 | — | 1h 32m 34s | |
| 10/21/25 | Alexander Stathis: Scaling a Modular Rails Monolith at AngelList✨ | modular monolithRuby+4 | Alexander Stathis | AngelListRails | — | Railsmodular monolith+5 | — | 1h 28m 51s | |
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| 10/7/25 | Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale✨ | Rails optimizationTest suite performance+3 | Florent Beaurain | Doctolib | Europe | Railstesting+5 | — | 1h 18m 09s | |
| 9/1/25 | Hilary Stohs-Krause: Scaling Rails with Small Wins✨ | performance optimizationsoftware engineering+4 | Hilary Stohs-Krause | HotwireActive Record+1 | — | RailsHotwire+5 | — | 1h 27m 38s | |
| 8/12/25 | Ryan Stawarz & Austin Story: Inside Doximity’s 15-Year Rails Monolith✨ | Rails monolithsoftware engineering+3 | Ryan StawarzAustin Story | Ruby on RailsDoximity | — | Rails monolithDoximity+3 | — | 1h 11m 54s | |
| 7/28/25 | Nadia Odunayo & Scaling Rails for Millions of Users as a Solo Dev✨ | Rails applicationscaling+4 | Nadia Odunayo | The StoryGraphHeroku+1 | webmobile | RailsThe StoryGraph+6 | — | 54m 10s | |
| 7/14/25 | Jean Boussier & IO-Bound Misconceptions | Jean Boussier, Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify and member of the Rails Core team, joins Robby to dig into the performance realities behind modern Rails apps. They explore what it means to be IO-bound or CPU-bound, how Ruby’s Global VM Lock affects concurrency, and why "fast" is too vague to be useful. Jean explains why instrumentation is often the missing piece and shares thoughtful approaches to using background jobs with intention. They also talk about gem dependencies. The gems in your `G... | 1h 05m 16s | ||||||
| 6/24/25 | Rosa Gutiérrez & Solid Queue | In this episode of ‘On Rails’, host Robby Russell (@planetargon) chats with Rosa Gutiérrez, Principal Programmer at 37signals, about the technical decisions behind Solid Queue - a database-backed job queue replacing Resque in their Rails apps. Rosa dives into why her team built Solid Queue, how it improves reliability, visibility, and maintainability, and the challenges of migrating live apps like Hey during active development. Learn how they tackled recurring jobs, long-running tasks, and te... | 1h 11m 02s | ||||||
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6 placements across 6 markets.
Chart Positions
6 placements across 6 markets.