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Estimated from 2 chart positions in 2 markets.
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- 🇵🇱PL · Technology#3510K to 30K
- 🇵🇹PT · Technology#185500 to 3K
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5.3K to 17K🎙 Weekly cadence·11 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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11K to 33K🇵🇱91%🇵🇹9% - Active Followers
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3.1K to 9.9K
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Eddie Galindo & Kagen Hearn: Rate Limiting For Your Customers
Sep 1, 2026
1h 24m 28s
Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable
Aug 18, 2026
42m 37s
Aaron Patterson: Ractors, JIT Compilers, and Rewriting How Gems Install
Aug 4, 2026
1h 23m 13s
Bryce Harlan: A Decade of Rails in Healthcare
Jul 8, 2026
1h 07m 36s
Nikky Southerland: Lessons from 13 Years of Rails at the Auto Shop
Jun 30, 2026
1h 08m 11s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/1/26 | Eddie Galindo & Kagen Hearn: Rate Limiting For Your Customers | Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money. Robby chats with Eddie and Kagen about why Ascend still runs one Rails monolith five years in, what changed when much larger customers started arriving, and how the team went about finding the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline. They also get into feature flags versus database configuration, and where AI to... | 1h 24m 28s | ||||||
| 8/18/26 | Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable | Joanna Wang is a senior software engineer at Sixfold, where the team builds AI underwriting tools that help insurance companies gather data and assess risk. She came to Ruby on Rails after working across Java, Go, Python, and Node. Robby and Joanna get into why the homegrown orchestration they built on state machines and callbacks turned brittle, what moving to Hatchet changed, and the tradeoffs of leaning on a gem that is no longer maintained. They also talk about what happened whe... | 42m 37s | ||||||
| 8/4/26 | Aaron Patterson: Ractors, JIT Compilers, and Rewriting How Gems Install | In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Aaron Patterson, better known online as Tenderlove, a senior staff engineer on Shopify’s Ruby infrastructure team and a longtime contributor to both Ruby and Rails Core. Aaron and Robby chat about how Ractors are finally bringing true multi-core parallelism to Ruby, the proposal Aaron has pitched to RubyGems.org for content addressable gems that could make bundle install dramatically faster, and the real reasons gems reach for native C extension... | 1h 23m 13s | ||||||
| 7/8/26 | RailsHealthcare+3 | Bryce Harlan | PhamilyJaan Health+1 | — | RailsHealthcare+3 | — | 1h 07m 36s | ||
| 6/30/26 | Ruby on Railssoftware engineering+3 | Nikky Southerland | Shop-Ware | — | RailsShop-Ware+3 | — | 1h 08m 11s | ||
| 6/12/26 | software developmentAI in coding+4 | David Heinemeier Hansson | Basecamp 5Basecamp+2 | — | David Heinemeier HanssonBasecamp 5+6 | — | 59m 42s | ||
| 5/15/26 | Railspodcasting+3 | Tom Rossi | Higher PixelsBuzzsprout | — | RailsBuzzsprout+5 | — | 1h 11m 12s | ||
| 5/6/26 | Railscybersecurity+3 | Jason Meller | Kolide1Password+1 | — | Railscybersecurity+5 | — | 1h 11m 31s | ||
| 4/22/26 | AIEngineering+3 | Brian Scanlan | Claude CodeIntercom | Rails | AI-FirstIntercom+3 | — | 1h 51m 30s | ||
| 4/13/26 | DNSRuby on Rails+3 | Simone Carletti | DNSimpleRails Foundation+3 | — | DNSimpleRails+5 | — | 1h 45m 52s | ||
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| 12/9/25 | testingRails+3 | Jay Tennier | Rainforest QA | — | Rainforest QARails monolith+3 | — | 1h 40m 03s | ||
| 11/19/25 | observabilityRails development+5 | Kayla Reopelle | Ruby AgentOpenTelemetry RubyGems+2 | — | observabilityRails+6 | — | 1h 02m 09s | ||
| 11/3/25 | Rails monolithsHIPAA compliance+3 | Miguel CondePeter Compernolle | Gusto | — | RailsGusto+5 | — | 1h 32m 34s | ||
| 10/21/25 | modular monolithRuby+4 | Alexander Stathis | AngelListRails | — | Railsmodular monolith+5 | — | 1h 28m 51s | ||
| 10/7/25 | Rails optimizationTest suite performance+3 | Florent Beaurain | Doctolib | Europe | Railstesting+5 | — | 1h 18m 09s | ||
| 9/1/25 | performance optimizationsoftware engineering+4 | Hilary Stohs-Krause | HotwireActive Record+1 | — | RailsHotwire+5 | — | 1h 27m 38s | ||
| 8/12/25 | Rails monolithsoftware engineering+3 | Ryan StawarzAustin Story | Ruby on RailsDoximity | — | Rails monolithDoximity+3 | — | 1h 11m 54s | ||
| 7/28/25 | 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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Chart history for On Rails
Peaked at #35 in PL, currently #35 in PL.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL | — | #35 | #35 | — |
| PT | — | #185 | #185 | — |
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.