RubyMotion, soon to be DragonRuby, empowers developers to write cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and OS X in Ruby. Lori Olson joined Brittany on the show to discuss the evolution of the framework, her mobile development courses and her (potentially) controversial opinions of Javascript.

Links for this episode:

• RubyMotion: Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby
  
• Mountaineers on Slack
  
• 6 Pack Apps
  
• RubyMotion Jumpstart
  
• Ruby Rogues 405: Rubymotion with Lori Olson
  
• RedPotion
  
• The Sleeping Dragon Has Awoken, And Is Filled With A Terrible Resolve
  
• Amir Rajan on Twitter (@amirrajan)
  
• Lori M Olson on Twitter (@wndxlori)
  
• WNDX School
  

Ubuntu 14.04, a common Ruby on Rails hosting environment, reached its end of life on April 30, 2019. Brittany brought on Justin Snair, Director of Cloud Infrastructure for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to discuss his custom script for upgrading their hosting environments and his tips for earning AWS certifications.

Links for this episode:

• A Cloud Guru
  
• Linux Academy
  
• AWS Certification
  
• Canonical | The company behind Ubuntu
  
• Ubuntu 14.04 is Reaching the End of Life
  
• Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
  
• AWS Auto Scaling
  
• Justin's Rails Env Upgrade Script (Gist)
  
• Ruby packages for Ubuntu - Brightbox Cloud
  
• Postfix - Ubuntu Documentation
  
• Windows RADIUS server
  
• AWS CodeDeploy
  
• Amazon CloudWatch
  
• AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera
  
• Justin Snair on Linked In
  
• Justin Snair on Upwork
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Guest host, Nick Schwaderer, chatted with Edouard Chin, Production Engineer at Shopify about one of the biggest Rails releases to date: Rails 6. Tune in to hear which features Nick and Edouard are most excited to use at their respective jobs.

Links for this episode:

• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  
• Edouard Chin on Github
  
• Ruby on Rails 6.0 Beta 1 Deprecations
  
• Shopify's Deprecation Toolkit
  
• Shopify's Bootboot
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  

Tom Rossi is the cofounder of Higher Pixels, the company behind several Ruby on Rails built web products. He joined Brittany from sunny Florida to talk about transitioning from a client services business to a product company and being intentionally small.

Links for this episode:

• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Higher Pixels
  
• Buzzsprout on Twitter (@buzzsprout)
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

Links for this episode:

• Abstractions CFP
  
• How to come up with conference proposal ideas
  
• Sarah's Site
  
• global diversity CFP day
  
• Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)
  
• Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Jan Krutisch is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany and the cofounder of Depfu.com, a service that helps teams to keep their dependencies up to date. Jan and Brittany discuss dependency management, publishing and marketing tools to developers.

Links for this episode:

• Depfu with 5 by 5 Promotion
  
• Jan on Mastodon
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

Special Guest Host, Nick Schwaderer, stepped into Brittany's hosting shoes this week to interview Shopify's José Albornoz. Tune in for an insightful conversation about Shopify's infrastructure and how personal bot building makes the world a better place.

Links for this episode:

• Nick Schwaderer on Twitter (@Schwad4HD14)
  
• Stealth
  
• Lita: ChatOps
  
• TelegramBot
  
• José Albornoz on Twitter (eljojo)
  
• Episode Music: "Inspire" by BenSounds
  

Nate Berkopec is the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy. He will be holding a Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf in Minneapolis. They chatted about performance and their loyalty for the Ruby community.

Links for this episode:

• Speedshop - Ruby on Rails performance consulting
  
• Speedshop Blog
  
• The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
  
• Tune
  
• Rails Performance Workshop after Railsconf (Minneapolis)
  
• Speedshop Ruby Performance Newsletter
  
• Nate Berkopec on Twitter (@nateberkopec)
  

Hiro Asari is a software developer at Travis CI and has spoken at many conferences across the globe. Hiro guested on to the show to discuss dpl, a continuous deployment tool he maintains at TravisCI.

Links for this episode:

• Charles Nutter on Github
  
• Tom Enebo on Github
  
• dpl
  
• Konstantin Haase on Github
  
• Deployment on TravisCI
  
• Martin Fowler's Thoughts on Continuous Integration
  
• Hiro Asari on Twitter (@hiro_asari)
  
• Hiro Asari on Github (@BanzaiMan)
  
• Episode Music: "Straight" by BenSound
  

Jason Charnes is a web developer, podcaster (Remote Ruby), husband, and dad who is part of the team of run.rb, a Ruby emulator in the browser. After discussing their mutual love of Ruby, Brittany and Jason discuss the importance of mental health awareness in the developer community.

Links for this episode:

• run.rb
  
• Southeast Ruby
  
• Remote Ruby
  
• Remote Ruby with Brittany as Guest
  
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  
• Jason Charnes on Twitter (@jmcharnes)
  
• Podia
  
• Episode Music: "Downtown" by BenSound