Episode 539: Travis Dockter and Blastoff Rails

David is joined by Javier Cervantes, co-creator of the Ruby User Forum, to discuss the origins of the project and the need for a persistent gathering place for the Ruby community. After returning to R...

23 Sep 26min

Chris Oliver and Collin Jilbert join David for a candid conversation about the changing economics of building products for the Ruby on Rails community in the age of AI. Chris traces the history of Go...

16 Sep 1h 16min

Jeremy Smith returns to the podcast ahead of Rails World to talk about his upcoming presentation, Practical Hotwire: Turbo and Stimulus on the Ground. Jeremy shares how years of working with Hotwire ...

9 Sep 38min

Jim Remsik, founder of Flagrant and organizer of XORuby, joins David to talk about what he’s learned from taking a Ruby conference on the road. XORuby was designed around a simple premise: traditiona...

2 Sep 27min

Local Ruby communities don’t simply happen—they need people willing to create the connections that keep them alive. David sits down with Chicago Ruby co-organizers Anton Tkachov and Michelle Yuen to ...

26 Aug 30min

Sometimes the best conference conversations start with a weird idea. Rachael Wright-Munn and Andy Andrea join me to revisit a moment at RubyConf when Andy's experiment with schemas and MCP tools coll...

19 Aug 42min

Andy Kroll joins the podcast to talk about Brighton Ruby, the impact AI is having on software development, and how the changing technology landscape is affecting everything from conference budgets to ...

12 Aug 30min

Rails Foundation Executive Director Amanda Perino joins David to preview Rails World 2026, the conference’s first year in the United States. Amanda shares how the team is bringing Austin’s personalit...

5 Aug 31min