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Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.

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Artwork for Rails Business

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Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti (Permission Not Required podcast) join Ryan and Brendan to catch up on what they're each building. Joe walks through Ruby Native — his platform for getting Rails apps into the App Store without touching Xcode or w... more

Ryan and Brendan talk through the growing pains of AI-assisted development — including fatigue, increased confidence in bigger code changes, and what happens when you stop paying for expensive APM tools and just build your own. Ryan walks through how... more

Scott Werner (Sublayer) returns to discuss how rapidly AI and agentic coding have is changing.  The hosts and Scott dig into why niche tools are increasingly getting replicated by developers and hobbyists with "good enough" custom solutions — while c... more

The hosts explore whether “data is the new moat” in SaaS and argues that data alone—especially customer data—is rarely defensible as extraction and migration get easier. Instead, moats increasingly come from clear product vision, differentiated appro... more

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Recent Guests

Joe Masilotti
Author and consultant focused on Rails and mobile apps
Episode: Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti
Colleen Schnettler
AI Automations consultant doing fractional work
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Kyle Keesling
Co-owner and developer behind PASS Testing
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Mateus Pereira
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Nate Berkopec
Founder of Speedshop, Ruby on Rails performance consultant, and contributor to open-source projects including Puma and Rails
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Stephen Anderson
Owner of Bendyworks, a Ruby on Rails development company.
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Scott Werner
CEO of Sublayer
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Chris Gaffney
Owner of Dead Man's Snitch
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Episode: Chris Gaffney
Chris Oliver
Creator of GoRails and Hatchbox, influential in the Rails community.
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Brendan Buckingham
Host and co-host focusing on Rails-based business and engineering topics.
Ryan Frisch
Co-host and co-producer covering Rails engineering, product decisions, and startup perspectives.

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Adam McCrea of Judoscale
Q: What challenges do you run into with Rails?
Adam noted that he finds working with import maps challenging, especially when integrating new JavaScript libraries.
Adam McCrea of Judoscale
Q: Can you tell us a little bit more about Judoscale and how Rails fits into that equation?
Adam explained how he built Judoscale out of a need to automatically scale server resources at a previous job, and that it is currently a monolithic Rails application.
Adam McCrea of Judoscale
Q: What drew you to Rails, and why do you choose to use Rails for work?
Adam shared that he has been using Rails since 2007, drawn in by the ethos of Rails which promotes programmer happiness, and he enjoys the productivity it brings.
Colleen Schnettler of SaaS Marketing Gym
Q: What's the one thing you wish technical founders knew about marketing before they got started?
Marketing never ends; it's a continuous cycle requiring ongoing input to see results, unlike building a feature which can be finished.
John Nunemaker
Q: How does Rails help you with the business side of things?
John states that Rails reduces friction in the development process, allowing for quicker and cleaner code implementation, which promotes efficiency in business operations.

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The show centers on building and running businesses around Ruby on Rails, with a practical bent toward product, engineering, and process. Across episodes, hosts Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch explore code quality, performance optimization, upgrade strategies, AI-enabled workflows, and practical project management for Rails-based teams. The discussions blend technical guidance, real-world customer and contractor dynamics, and entrepreneurial insights, making it valuable for developers, startup founders, and engineering leaders who want to design better software and more effective teams. A notable pattern is the emphasis on actionable approaches—whether upgrading legacy Rails apps, integrating AI to boost developer productivity, or docume... more

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