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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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Ryan Castillo returns to talk about pivoting Knowatoa from an SEO play into an AI-visibility tool — and why the analytics everyone wants to track are becoming impossible to trust in an AI-search world. The back half turns into a deep dive on Ryan's A... more

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

The hosts once again discuss the recurring theme of AI’s impact on development workflows.  They discuss various topics, including: 

• Increased PR volume from AI-assisted coding and whether traditional pull request reviews are still necessary. 

• Sh... more

In this episode, the hosts discuss building a “universal scraper” for event calendars and a new AI-assisted workflow using a long-running orchestrator.md thread.

00:12 Why Change AI Workflow

01:29 Orchestrator File Setup

04:36 How Memory Persists

07... more

The hosts discuss how AI-assisted coding has massively increased their output, creating a new bottleneck: cognitive load, PR review, testing, and getting work shipped. Ryan discusses splitting time between finishing near-complete work, advancing a fe... more

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John Nunemaker
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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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Chris Oliver
Creator of GoRails and Hatchbox, influential in the Rails community.
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Hosts

Brendan Buckingham
Host of Rails-oriented business discussions; frequent collaborator on technical and business topics.
Ryan Frisch
Co-host, brings engineering and product-market perspective to Rails-focused business topics.

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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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This show centers on building with Ruby on Rails while turning development into a business. Episodes frequently explore practical topics at the intersection of engineering, product strategy, and client services — from Rails upgrades, performance tuning, and AI-enabled tooling to pricing, marketing, and scaling consulting offerings. Notable throughlines include how AI and automation reshapes software delivery, the tradeoffs of custom tooling versus off-the-shelf solutions, and the evolving roles of engineers as builders, educators, and consultants. The hosts often ground discussions with concrete numbers, case studies, and actionable workflows, making it particularly useful for technical leaders, agency-like teams, and independents who want ... more

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