Dont Steal Our Business Idea

Chris, Andrew, and David dig into the practical realities of modern development, from building faster server images with Packer and untangling databas...

The Great Falcon Defense and CI Innovations

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a very Remote Ruby style detour through Costco, Blue Apron, leftovers, Blackstone grill...

Chris Is Back And Ready To Rant

Chris returns from Greece and catches up with Andrew and David on travel, conferences, movies, and the latest developments in the Rails community. The...

Blastoff Rails Recap and Ruby Central Revamp

Navigating Subscription Overhauls and Payments

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up after a missed week of recording and quickly dive into the kind of deeply practical Rails work that only comes from...

[The lost episode 259]  All Right, Rant Time - Debugging

[This episode from February 2024 was never published and recently discovered]
In today’s episode, Andrew kicks things off with a rant about tack...

Revise Auth and Podcasting Plans

Chris and David cover a lot of ground in this episode, starting with Chris’s experience teaching a Rails workshop for Frontend Masters in Minneapolis....

Rails World Tickets, New JavaScript Package Managers, and Security Worries

Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with a detour through Dungeon Crawler Carl, Rails World tickets, and conference travel before diving into dev...

Blue Ridge Ruby Insights & Experiences

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David are back together with David starting out giving a recap of Blue Ridge Ruby and his renewed motivation to co...

Stripe Changes, File Upload Quirks, Scaling Sidekiq

Chris and Andrew catch up after Andrew’s whirlwind “vacation-ish” road trip before diving into Stripe’s latest announcements, usage-based billing, mer...

Direct Routes and Data Queries

On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David kick things off with dentist trauma, gold star stickers, and fiber internet. The conversation...

Behind the Scenes: Developing Podias New Version

Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, inclu...

Ruby Central Restructuring

This BREAKING NEWS episode is a candid reaction to Ruby Central’s latest shakeup, with Chris, Andrew, and David unpacking leadership departures, finan...

Joined by John Athayde

Chris and David welcome guest John Athayde, who runs the branding and UX consultancy, Meticulous. They dive into John’s unusual path through the Rails...

Governance, Security Flaws, and AI Tools

This episode of Remote Ruby opens with stories of exhaustion from a sleepless week. Then, Chris, Andrew, and David spend most of the episode unpacking...

Memcached Mayhem

On this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David bounce from Ruby and Rails security updates into the messy realities of caching, UI architecture, and browse...

Conferences, AI Trends, and Sleepless Nights

Chris, Andrew, and David catch up on health, sleep deprivation, and the new Invincible season and Fallout. David shares some RubyConf CFP submissions...

Unraveling GitHub Actions & Modern Auth Challenges

On this episode, Andrew’s buried in messy authentication work spread across legacy code, Chris recounts a frustrating GitHub Actions debugging session...

Heroku, Hosting, and the AI Era

Chris and David welcome back Adam McCrea from Judoscale, to discuss the uncertainty around Heroku after Salesforce’s announcement that it would stop t...

Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more

Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Nod...

LiveComponent with Cameron Dutro

Cameron Dutro returns to the show to introduce LiveComponent, a new library that adds client-side state and targeted re-rendering to Rails ViewCompone...

Bridge Components, Swift UI and more with Joe Masilotti

Andrew and David hold down the fort without Chris and catch up on what they’ve been watching and reading, before welcoming back Joe Masilotti, the sho...

Kisses From Andrew, the Ruby Gala & Conference Workshops

On this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David dive into the newly released Claude Opus 4.6 and share their frustrations and solutions for d...

Kevin Newton on Ruby & Python, Prism, Psych-Pure, and Exreg

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David kick off with humorous stories about coding experiences across different languages, and then they welcome ba...

Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 with Jeremy Smith and Joe Peck

In this episode, Blue Ridge Ruby organizers Jeremy Smith and Joe Peck join Andrew, Chris, and David to talk about the conference returning in 2026. Th...

Tool Standardization

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David dive into details about refactoring with SQL, updates on new Ruby versions, and share their views on various...

Tech Resolutions and Tailwind Troubles

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David have conversations from New Year's resolutions and monitor specifications, to the sustainabil...

Remote Ruby Wrapped

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris, Andrew, and David humorously discuss the rapid increase of 'wrapped' features in various apps, recount personal...

Ruby Upgrades & RAM Shortages

Chris, Andrew, and David are back together, and the conversation starts out with TV talk, Fallout hype, why some shows overstay their welcome (Prison...

Jumpstart Pro Evolution - Streamlining Rails Development

In this episode, Chris and David Hill catch up on wild winter temperature swings, then dive into what Chris has been refactoring in Jumpstart to reduc...

Joined by David Hill

Chris and Andrew kick things off with some weather whiplash and snowblower talk before introducing a new guest on the show, long-time Rubyist David Hi...

Untitled Episode

Andrew kicks off at 8 a.m. with six Docker containers running, and he and Chris dive into what modern Rails development looks like inside dev containe...

San Francisco Ruby Conference Recap

Andrew returns from SF Ruby with a lot more than conference swag! He brings a clear snapshot of where Ruby, Rails, and AI are headed right now. In thi...

Rails Business with Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew have a lively conversation with Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch from the Rails Business Podcast. T...

Managing Open Source with Nate Berkopec

In this episode, guest Nate Berkopec joins Chris and Andrew to discuss the current state and cultural controversies surrounding Ruby Gems, Bundler, an...

Chris Is Back, Ruby Drama, Projects, and Parenthood

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew catch up with Chris discussing the arrival of a new baby and the challenges of balancing work and par...

Who Owns RubyGems? Inside the Ruby Central Controversy

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris is on paternity leave celebrating the birth of his son, so Andrew brings in Drew Bragg and Rachael Wright-Munn (...

Blastoff Rails with Travis Dockter

In this episode of Remote Ruby, Chris and Andrew chat with Travis Dockter, the founder of a brand-new Ruby conference, Blastoff Rails. They dive deep...

Rails World 2025 Recap

In this episode, Chris and Andrew reflect on their recent trip to Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, sharing travel adventures, highlights from the confer...

Live at Rails World 2025

Live from Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, Chris and Andrew hang with Andy Croll and Jason Charnes to trade conference vibes, hair envy for DHH, and rea...