Rails Business
Brendan Buckingham & Ryan Frisch
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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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Rolling Your Own APM with Claude: Real Wins, Real Tradeoffs
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…
Scott Werner Returns
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…
Is Data the Moat for Your Business?
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…
Do Pull Request Reviews Still Matter in the Age of AI?
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…
Building with an AI Orchestrator Workflow
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 Workflow01:29…
AI Coding at Scale: Managing PR Overload, Using Claude to Stay Organized and Rethinking SaaS for an AI-First World
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…
Scaling AI-Assisted Development
Today we discuss lessons from our previous episode with John Nunemaker, focusing on the Conductor tool and how multi-workspace, multi-agent workflows can speed up coding and bug fixing. Brendan…
John Nunemaker on AI Development
John Nunemaker returns to discuss how fast AI tooling has changed and argues tech leaders should adopt Claude Max (defaulting to Opus), set up agent-friendly local environments, and roll that out to…
Kyle Keesling
In this episode, Kyle Keesling, co-owner of PASS Testing and long-time solo Rails developer, shares how PASS grew from a college web design side project into a niche software and training business…
Reflecting on Our First Year of the Podcast
In this episode, the hosts reconnect after a holiday break to reflect on their podcast journey over the last year. They discuss important milestones like their one-year recording anniversary, the…
Striving for Ideal Code
In this episode, the hosts discuss reflect on the high-quality, maintainable code found in various videos and books and their own aspirations to emulate such coding standards. The conversation covers…
Mateus Pereira
In this episode, we chat with Mateus Pereira from Ombu Labs about the nuances of Rails upgrades and how AI is revolutionizing the process. From tackling gem dependencies to client collaboration,…
Nate Berkopec
In this episode, Nate Berkopec, the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy, author of several books including the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, and a maintainer of…
Communicating Project Requirements
In this episode, we tackle the nuances of communicating project requirements within development teams. From managing user stories and acceptance criteria to balancing control and flexibility, we…
Stephen Anderson
In this episode, we welcome Stephen Anderson, founder and owner of Bendyworks, a Madison, Wisconsin based Ruby on Rails consultancy. Stephen shares his journey from corporate Java consulting to…
Scott Werner
In this episode, we welcome Scott Werner, CEO of Sublayer, to discuss the future of software development and how AI is transforming the industry. Scott shares his experiences and insights on how AI…
Chris Gaffney
This week, Chris Gaffney, owner of Dead Man's Snitch, a niche monitoring service for CRON jobs and service heartbeats joined us. Discover the origins of the company, its growth journey, and the…
Leveraging AI to Enhance User Productivity
In this episode, we explore how AI can be leveraged to build engaging features in our applications. We discuss the development of a 'guided blogging' feature using AI, its benefits for users, and the…
Challenges of Performance Monitoring in Rails
In this episode, we dive into the complexities of performance monitoring in Rails applications. Our discussion revolves around popular tools like Honey Badger, New Relic, Skylight, and App Signal,…
Chris Oliver
In this episode, the hosts welcome Chris Oliver, a prominent figure in the Rails community, known for his work on numerous projects including GoRails, Hatchbox, and Jumpstart Pro to name a few. Chris…
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Rails Business has published 35 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Business, Technology.
Rails Business is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 38m.
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