
Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 45 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyBusiness | |||

Jeremy Smith has worked as a fractional Rails developer for 13 years, and he says 2026 is the hardest year he's seen to start. We get into why companies are holding their wallets, what "good code" and good tests even mean when nobody writes code by h... more
DHH's Rails World keynote barely mentioned Rails, and the internet decided that meant Rails is dead. We don't buy it. Ryan took one line from the talk as a direct order and had an agent building his CLI the same day, which raises a bigger question: h... more
What do you do when the database is maxed out, the busiest day of your year is six months away, and you still don't know what's actually wrong? Andrew Atkinson joins us to talk through that exact scenario at Aura Frames - the Christmas Day 2024 outag... more
No guest this week — just Brendan and Ryan working through several things they've been seeing lately. Topics covered include:
- Anthropic's skills: why both of us started by writing one giant skill instead of small composable ones, and why that's ... more
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Two hosts discuss building businesses around Ruby on Rails, focusing on practical engineering decisions, architecture, and product strategy for SaaS and service-oriented ventures. Recent episodes surface hands-on lessons about scaling Rails and Postgres, integrating AI tooling into development workflows, building design-forward teams, and running lean, contractor-supported operations. The conversation often blends technical depth with business implications, including pricing, onboarding clients, and marketing a Rails-centered consultancy or product. A standout trait is the willingness to share real-world metrics, tooling choices, and cost tradeoffs, making it useful for engineers, founders, and developers evaluating Rails-centric architectu... more
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