The Ruby Blend
The Ruby Blend is a Ruby focused podcast bringing you panel discussions, guest interviews, and much more to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the Ruby development community mixed with sprinkles from other developer communities.
All Episodes
Goodbye, for now
September 19th, 2020
A short episode where Andrew Mason reveals that the show has come to an end. Thank you for all your support!
Show Links
★ Transistor.fm is …
Episode 21: Do you really need two cans of Play-Doh?
September 3rd, 2020
The Ruby Blend - Episode 21
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Dave had a great idea for our topic today, which we'll be talking about our development setups, our environments, and some of the equipment we are using. Dave tells …
Episode 20: The Service Object Show
August 28th, 2020
The Ruby Blend - Episode 20
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! It's been awhile and it sure feels good to back in the swing of things! Today, we have a new panelist with us, Dave Kimura, who's been doing Ruby for quite some …
Episode 19: Metaprogramming
August 20th, 2020
The Ruby Blend - Episode 19
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today we have a new panelist with us, Eric Berry, who was the founder of CodeFund, and has worked with Andrew and Nate for a while. On this episode the guys will …
Episode 18: Interviewing
July 16th, 2020
The Ruby Blend - Episode 18
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! The guys catch up on what's been going on this week. Ron has been taking an insurance class with his work to learn the ins and outs of the insurance industry, Nate's …
Episode 17: Open sourcing a Ruby gem with Brittany Martin
June 26th, 2020
The Ruby Blend - Episode 17
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today's episode, we have a special guest, Brittany Martin, who is Lead Web Developer for the …
Episode 16: Playbook Thirty-nine with Nick Haskins
June 19th, 2020
Welcome to The Ruby Blend! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Nick Haskins, who works as a full-time solo Dev for CG Cookie and a year later …
Episode 15: Rails Testing Tools and Best Practices with Jason Swett
June 4th, 2020
Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today's episode is all about testing! We have special guest, Jason Swett, who is the host of, "Rails with Jason Podcast" and author of, "Rails Testing For Beginners." If you've had …
Episode 14: Projects, Projects, Projects!!
May 28th, 2020
Hello and welcome to The Ruby Blend! In this episode, the guys talk about new and exciting things they've been working on. Nate starts out by talking about how he paired up with Jason Charnes of Podia and Remote Ruby, …
Episode 13: Wait, you want to lint commit messages?!?
May 21st, 2020
Panelists
- Andrew Mason
- Nate Hopkins
- Ron Cooke
Guests
None this week.
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:02:15] Ron talks about the importance of architecture, …
Episode 12: The State of the Rails Community with Julian Rubisch
May 14th, 2020
Panelists
- Andrew Mason
- Nate Hopkins
Guests
- Julian Rubisch
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:00:38] Julian tells us all about himself and his background. He
…
Episode 11: Open Source Funding and CodeFund with Eric Berry
May 7th, 2020
Panelists
- Andrew Mason
- Nate Hopkins
Guests
- Eric Berry
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:01:12] Eric tells us the story of how he found the inspiration for
…
Episode 10: Parentheses and typosquatting
April 30th, 2020
Panelists
- Andrew Mason
- Nate Hopkins
- Ron Cooke
Guests
- None
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:00:41] Andrew announces that Ruby 2.4 is no longer supported so
…
Episode 9: ViewComponent at GitHub with Joel Hawksley
April 16th, 2020
Panelists
- Andrew Mason
Guest Panelists
- Chris Oliver
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:02:13] Joel starts off by saying it's an exciting time for the
project …
Episode 8: Tests and Webpacker
April 9th, 2020
Panelists
- Ron Cooke
- Nate Hopkins
- Andrew Mason
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:03:13] GitHub sponsors starts the talk on this episode, and how a
few people …
Episode 7: Static Sites and Testing
April 3rd, 2020
Summary
Nate, Ron, and Andrew stay quarantined along with the rest of the nation. Ron is
happy he has snacks, so he's good! In this episode, the guys talk about
Gatsby, Frontend JavaScript, Static Site Generation, and …
Episode 6: Working from Home
March 26th, 2020
Panelists
Andrew Mason
Nate Hopkins
Ron Cooke
Guest
None this week
Sponsor
Show Notes
[00:02:25] Nate asks Ron if his new company is using Rails like his
last job. Ron explains how things like deploys are much easier …
Episode 5: Joined by Chris Oliver
March 19th, 2020
Panelists
Andrew Mason
Nate Hopkins
Guest
Show Notes
[00:01:37] Chris talks about how he discovered Ruby and began
developing with it. It started with him wanting to build websites.
[00:05:05] Active resource is …
Episode 4: Components, HAML vs ERB, and Design Systems
March 12th, 2020
Panelists
Ron Cooke
Andrew Mason
Guest
None this week
Show Notes
[00:00:42] The guys discuss what they know about view component which
is a component type library that GitHub was working on which was
upstreamed into Rails …
Episode 3: HEY, Productivity, Turbolinks, and Meetings
March 5th, 2020
Sponsored By:
Linode
Panelists
Ron Cooke
Nate Hopkins
Andrew Mason
Guest
None this week
Show Notes
[01:32:15] Nate brings up Basecamp 3 and the new Hey! Menu, an email client competitor. Nate REALLY hopes it can replace Slack …
Episode 2: Editors, Pairing, RailsConf, and RPC
February 27th, 2020
Sponsored By:
Linode
Panelists
Ron Cooke
Nate Hopkins
Andrew Mason
Guest
None this week
Show Notes
[00:46:14] In this episode, Ron talks about “blending” with Python as he updates services to Python 3. Also, he talks about …
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