On Rails
On Rails invites Rails developers to share real-world technical challenges and solutions, architectural decisions, and lessons learned while building with Rails. Through technical deep-dives and retrospectives with experienced engineers in the Rails community, we explore the strategies behind building and scaling Rails applications.
Hosted by Robby Russell of Planet Argon and produced by the Rails Foundation.
Episodes
13 episodes
Jason Meller: Rails, Security, and the AI Advantage
Jason Meller, founder of Kolide (acquired by 1Password in 2023) and now VP of Product at 1Password, joins Robby for a conversation about a car...
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, where a 15-year-old Rails monolith w...
Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Simone Carletti, CTO of DNSimple, where Rails has sat at the core of a globally distributed DNS platform since the com...
Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working acros...
Kayla Reopelle: What Your Rails App Is Trying To Tell You
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Kayla Reopelle, a lead software engineer at New Relic, where she works on both the Ruby Agent and OpenT...
Miguel Conde & Peter Compernolle: Inside Gusto’s Rails Biolith
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Miguel Conde and Peter Compernolle from Gusto, w...
Alexander Stathis: Scaling a Modular Rails Monolith at AngelList
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Alexander Stathis, a Principal Software Engineer at AngelList, where Rails powers complex investment...
Florent Beaurain: Optimizing Rails Tests at Doctolib Scale
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Florent Beaurain, a longtime Rails engineer at Doctolib, home to one of the largest Rails monoliths in Eur...
Hilary Stohs-Krause: Scaling Rails with Small Wins
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Hilary Stohs-Krause, a Senior Software Engineer at Red Canary. They explore how enginee...
Ryan Stawarz & Austin Story: Inside Doximity’s 15-Year Rails Monolith
In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Ryan Stawarz and Austin Story from
Nadia Odunayo & Scaling Rails for Millions of Users as a Solo Dev
In this episode of On Rails, Nadia Odunayo, founder and solo developer of The StoryGraph, joins us to share what it really takes to build and m...