The Ruby on Rails Podcast

What happens when the tool you rely on disappears? For Eduardo and Camila Souza, the shutdown of Pivotal Tracker became the motivation to build Pivotal Tasker, a Rails-based alternative inspired by the project management workflow they missed. They discuss reconstructing the experience from memory and reference material, adding classic and modern interfaces, and integrating co...

JP Camara joins the show to explore background job coordination, real-time collaboration, and the opportunities he sees for Ruby and Rails as AI changes how developers work.

First, JP shares the story behind bringing batches to Solid Queue, from an early proposal to the conference conversations and community interest that helped move the feature forward. He explains h...

What does it mean to be a software developer when writing code is no longer the central part of the job? Jessica Kerr and Avdi Grimm join David Hill for a conversation about the changing work of software engineering—and how to navigate that change without losing the curiosity, satisfaction, and human connection that drew us to it.

They begin by examining why AI-assist...

Recorded at Rails World, David sits down with Buzzsprout co-founder and CEO Tom Rossi for a wide-ranging conversation about AI, software development, product thinking, and the changing role of developers.

Tom shares his perspective on the rapid pace of change in the software industry and why today's AI transition reminds him of the early days of the internet—only movi...