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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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46 episodes
since Feb. 11, 2025
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Wale Olaleye has run Rails Fever on his own for 12 years. His clients are companies at least 10 years old, earning up to about $5 million a year, with no full dev team, and running on a custom Rails app. We get into how he found clients through Philly meetups, Slack communities and now cold outreac…
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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 hand anymore, and why running three…
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: how much of your working life do you han…
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 outage that set it off, and how they made Ch…
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 the same lesson object-oriented prog…
Jesse Hanley joined us from southern Japan, where he runs Bento — an email marketing and transactional email platform — as a company of one. Topics covered include:
Why the bootstrapped dream now means picking big, hairy, competitive markets instead of cozy niches AI can replicate overnight.
Autom…
Jim Remsik — founder of Flagrant, Madison Ruby and the traveling XO Ruby conferences — joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. The discussion starts with the ups and downs of running a design-and-dev agency in the AI era. Topics covered include:
- Why design has started outselling development a…
Nate Berkopec (Speedshop) returns to dig into what AI actually changes about Rails performance work — and it's not what the hype says. The through-line: stop conflating understanding code with verifying it, because the real leverage is building objective, tool-callable checks an agent can loop…
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 AI coding workflow: skipping the Claude chat …
Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby.io / OmbuLabs) returns to talk through how AI is reshaping both sides of his business — speeding up Rails upgrades while simultaneously eating into revenue, and opening a new lane in AI strategy consulting for non-technical businesses. The group digs into the messiness o…
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