Joe Leo is the CEO of Def Method, an agile Ruby software consultancy, and the co-author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition. He and Brittany discussed functional programming in Ruby and their thoughts on the Ruby community after Rubyconf 2019.

Links for this episode:

• Def Method
  
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition
  
• The Functional Rubyist: A Primer | Rubyconf 2019 Slides
  
• Partial Function Application | Joe Leo on Ruby Tapas
  
• Joe Leo III (@jleo3) | Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at [email protected]. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Brittany is live from Rubyconf 2019! Noah Gibbs is a Ruby Fellow for AppFolio, working on the core Ruby language and related tooling. After over 30 years of communicating with computers, Noah now believes that communicating with humans may not be a passing fad, and he's trying it out.

Links for this episode:

• Noah Gibb's Blog
  
• Ruby Weekly
  
• Ruby 3x3
  
• Ivy Coding Study
  
• Conscious Coding Practice: The Three Concrete Steps Slides
  
• Noah's Book: Mastering Software Technique: Conscious Practice for Writing Software
  
• Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds
  
• An explanation of fibers and autofibers from Samuel Williams
  
• Noah Gibbs (@codefolio) · Twitter
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  

Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at [email protected]. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Bindiya Mansharamani, Director of Engineering, & Andrew Derenge, Principal Engineer at RigUp joined Brittany to discuss RigUp's GraphQL design choices, engineering culture and the career path to achieve senior and director level.

Links for this episode:

• RigUp
  
• Careers @ RigUp
  
• Bindiya on LinkedIn
  
• Andrew on LinkedIn
  
• Episode and Sponsor Music by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Mirror Placement

If you are a Rails developer currently in the market, a startup seeking to grow your team, or just simply curious to hear about market and salary trends, Brian at Mirror Placement would love to chat with you. He will send you a turkey!

You can reach him at [email protected]. Turkeys are in limited supply, so please reach out to Brian today and drop the codeword: "gobble gobble".

Ali Spittel loves teaching people to code. She blogs a lot about code and her life as a developer. Brittany and Ali discuss the lessons behind Ali's blog post, "The Career Advice I Wish I Had".

Links for this episode:

• General Assembly
  
• Ladybug Podcast
  
• Ladybug Podcast | All About Technical Portfolios
  
• The Career Advice I Wish I Had · We Learn Code
  
• Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers - Thoughtbot
  
• Ali's Blog
  
• Ali's Newsletter
  
• Ali Spittel on Twitter(@ASpittel)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Kensington

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Gannon McGibbon is a Software Developer at Shopify. He primarily works on improving codebase health of Shopify's monolithic Rails app. Gannon regularly contributes to open source with commits on Rails, Ruby, and Rubocop. He joined Brittany to discuss his latest blog post, "How to Write Fast Ruby on Rails code".

Links for this episode:

• Rails Contributors | #59 Gannon McGibbon - All time
  
• How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails by Gannon McGibbon
  
• Gannon on Github (@gmcgibbon)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

[Repost from the Bikeshed] On this week's episode, Steph Viccari is joined by Brittany. They discuss Brittany's passion for roller derby and her upcoming Ruby conference talk: "Hire Me, I'm Excellent at Quitting." They also discuss using AWS Serverless, troubleshooting Postgress connection errors and working with Google Pay and Apple Wallet to introduce digital tickets.

Links for this episode:

• The Bikeshed Podcast
  
• RubyConf 2019 - Hire Me: I'm Excellent at Quitting
  
• Bikeshedding with Steph Viccari
  
• TN Inspire! "Ramping Up With Roller Derby"
  
• Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code
  
• RubyConf MY - Rails Against the Machine
  
• Amazon Aurora Serverless
  
• Nate Berkopec - Speed Shop
  
• @SViccari - Steph on Twitter
  
• @BrittJMartin - Brittany on Twitter
  
• Edited by Thom Obarski (thoughtbot)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Brittany and Nick catch up on happenings in their worlds. Nick started a new gig and Brittany was accepted into Rubyconf as a speaker. Predictably, after discussing upgrading to Rails 6 and releasing new gems, the conversation focused on keyboards.

Links for this episode:

• Hero Health
  
• Rubyconf 2019
  
• Introducing my Schwad Performance Logger gem
  
• Schwad/schwad_performance_logger
  
• DROP DSA ASTROLOKEYS KEYCAPS BY SAILORHG & CASSIDOO
  
• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
  
• Brittany Martin on Twitter (@brittjmartin)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Kensington

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Polly Schandorf is a Ruby community advocate, a newly minted extreme programmer and an organizer for Ruby for Good. She is also one of the organizers of WeCamp - a code retreat and unconference in the woods in the suburbs of DC. Help Ruby for Good do the good they are trying to do!

Links for this episode:

• Ruby for Good - Making the world gooder
  
• WeCamp 2019
  
• Extreme Programming
  
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  
• Ruby for Good on Github
  
• DiaperBase
  
• Polly Schandorf on Twitter (@n3rdyteacher)
  
• Ruby for Good on Twitter (@rubyforgood)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

John Nunemaker, creator and maintainer of HTTParty and Flipper, regaled Brittany with tales of why he loves Ruby & Rails, his change of mindset on being an open source maintainer and how a post-install hook can inspire even the most grumpy of developers.

Links for this episode:

• Box Out Sports - The Best Sports Graphics Solution
  
• Fewer and Faster - Measure, Improve and Repeat
  
• Speaker Deck - Share Presentations without the Mess
  
• jnunemaker/httparty: Makes http fun again!
  
• jnunemaker/flipper: feature flipping for ruby
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Hoefler&Co

A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

Brittany is delighted to have Dan Benjamin, podcaster, writer, software developer, and old school Rails aficionado on the show. He is the founder of the 5by5 Podcast Network and Fireside, a podcast hosting and analytics platform.

Links for this episode:

• A List Apart – For people who make websites
  
• 5by5 - Broadcasts for Geeks, Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs.
  
• Fireside - podcast hosting and analytics by podcasters, for podcasters
  
• Dan Benjamin on Twitter (@danbenjamin)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Hoefler&Co

A good font is one of the best ways to make your project stand apart. At typography.com, you'll find the work of Hoefler&Co, creators of stylish and high-performance typefaces. And now for a limited time, as a Ruby on Rails listener you'll receive 10% off your next purchase from H&Co. Use code RUBY for your discount at checkout!

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