Justin Weiss (@justinweiss) joins Sean Devine to talk about his Rails-focused blog at http://www.justinweiss.com and his upcoming book.

Links for this episode:

• justinweiss.com
  
• justinweiss.com weekly newsletter
  
• github.com/justinweiss
  
• @justinweiss
  
• A Guide to Choosing the Best Gems for Your Ruby Project
  
• Search and Filter Rails Models Without Bloating Your Controller
  
• seanwes podcast
  
• beeminder.com
  
• Don’t Fave This Post: How to REALLY Launch in 2014
  
• rubyflow.com
  

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Olga Raskina joins Sean Devine to discuss her journey from secondary school in Soviet Russia to her undergraduate degree at Moscow State University to her PhD at Columbia University in NYC to her professional career in Operations Research and programming. They discuss formal vs informal education and the upside of each approach along with lots of related topics.

Links for this episode:

• Madison+ Ruby
  
• @jremsikjr
  
• @MadisonRuby
  
• Adorable.io
  

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Raygun - Get notified about your software's bugs as they happen. Raygun was built by Mindscape, the development tools company, and is trusted by thousands of organizations, big and small. It integrates in minutes with your Ruby on Rails application (or any other programming language or framework too). Get started for free today at raygun.io/5by5 and receive a $50 account credit by using the discount code 5BY5.

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Peter Cooper (@peterc) - publisher of Cooper Press - discusses his email newsletter empire (including Ruby Weekly) with lots of side trips along the way.

Links for this episode:

• @peterc on Twitter
  
• @CooperPress on Twitter
  
• Cooper Press
  
• Ruby Weekly Newsletter
  
• peterc.org
  

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Sean Devine is the interviewee and Eric Steele plays host. Topics include how Sean started to program, web scraping via Mechanize and Watir, the Ruby Quiz as therapy, the evolution of Ruby's testing culture and much much more.

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Sean Devine is joined by Flo Motlik from Codeship to discuss continuous delivery, the history of Codeship and some of the biggest challenges involved in running a CI service. Plus coconuts and peaches.

Links for this episode:

• @flomotlik on Twitter
  
• github.com/flomotlik
  
• codeship.io
  
• Kendo on Wikipedia
  
• One Reason Cross-Cultural Small Talk Is So Tricky - Coconut vs Peach
  

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Sean Devine talks with Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) about why he develops software for the Apple ecosystem (mostly OS X) and how that experience compares and contrasts to developing software in an OSS environment like Ruby on Rails.

Links for this episode:

• @danielpunkass on Twitter
  
• Red Sweater Software
  
• Core Intuition podcast
  
• github.com/danielpunkass
  
• MarsEdit - Desktop blog editing for Mac OS X
  

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Sean Devine talks to Lex Friedman, the EVP Sales and Development of Midroll, a large podcast ad sales network. Lex describes the full time Ruby on Rails programming position that they are looking to fill. There's also plenty of behind-the-scenes stories about the podcasting world.

If you want to apply for the Ruby on Rails position at Midroll, email [email protected].

Links for this episode:

• @lexfri on Twitter
  
• Midroll - Podcast advertising network
  
• Turning This Car Around podcast
  
• Your Daily Lex podcast
  

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Eric Steele talks about releasing his new book, "What Do I Test?".

Links for this episode:

• @genericsteele
  
• Dub Side of the Moon
  
• Pitchfork
  
• What Do I Test?
  
• Fuck you Jobu! I do it myself!
  

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Nick tells Sean about his rubygems fantasies, ranks his noteworthiness, clarifies the contents of concert balloons, and provides free parenting advice.

Links for this episode:

• rubygems.org
  
• @qrush on Twitter
  
• CoworkBuffalo
  
• Nickel City Ruby
  
• Basecamp
  
• AqueousBand.net
  
• RUSH
  
• Phish
  
• Bourbon (and friends)
  
• Heroku Postgres
  

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Sean Devine learns about Twilio from Greg Baugues.

Links for this episode:

• @greggyb on Twitter
  
• twilio.com
  
• github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby
  
• github.com/ZestFinance/zestphone
  

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