Author - Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason is a Rubyist, software engineer, podcaster, and open source developer. He is currently building Ruby on Rails application at N2 Publishing.

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Ruby Rogues

Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.

703 Episodes

Episodes

MRS 074: Andrew Mason

Charles Max Wood introduces the newest panelist for Ruby Rogues, Andrew Mason. Andrew shares his background and how...

26:53

Jan 24, 2019

RR 392: Crystal and Lucky with Paul Smith & Andrew Mason

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky...

1:02:07

Dec 11, 2018

The Life and Death of a Rails App with Olivier Lacan - RUBY 635

Olivier Lacan joins the panel again. He currently works for Pluralsight. Today they are talking about the spectrum of...

01:07:11

May 01, 2024

RR 428: Arming the Rebels with Rails 6 Featuring David Heinemeier Hansson

Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This...

1:15:32

Jan 12, 2021

RR 444: Rails Against the Machine

Brittany Martin, Lead Web Developer at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust joins the panel today to talk about her talk...

46:40

Dec 31, 2019

RR 437: Deploying Rails Onto Kubernetes with Khash Sajadi

Khash and Kasia work for Cloud 66, a company started in 2012 with a goal to make Rails deployment simple and...

55:42

Nov 12, 2019

RR 436: Determining Pricing with Michael Herold

Michael Herold is married to an economist and is a staff engineer at Flywheel where he writes Ruby programs to...

45:07

Nov 05, 2019

RR 435: Alternatives to Adding React with Graham Conzett

Graham Conzett has been a developer for 12 years. He has worked with Ruby and Rails for half of that, and currently...

59:28

Oct 22, 2019

RR 434: Surviving Webpack with Ross Kaffenberger

Ross Kaffenberger is a software engineer at Stitch Fix and has been developing web applications for the past 12...

1:23:43

Oct 15, 2019

RR 433: ShipLane with John Epperson

John Epperson has been doing ruby for 12 years and is a friend of Andrew Mason. He got into Docker a couple years ago...

1:04:40

Oct 08, 2019

RR 432: Stop Testing, Start Storytelling with Mike Schutte

Mike Schutte is a fronted developer at TED conferences and was trained in code school at Turing in Colorado. He likes...

40:35

Oct 01, 2019

RR 431: Building a Consulting Business with Todd Kaufman

Todd Kaufman is one of the cofounders of Test Double, a software development consultancy that was started 8 years...

1:08:29

Sep 24, 2019

RR 429: Mechanical Confidence with Adam Cuppy

Adam Cuppy is the cofounder and current chief operating officer at Zeal, web and mobile app consultancy. Today the...

1:12:19

Sep 10, 2019

RR 428: Arming the Rebels with Rails 6 Featuring David Heinemeier Hansson

Today’s guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and co founder and CTO at Basecamp. This...

1:16:05

Sep 03, 2019

RR 427: Sorbet, a Type Checker for Ruby with Paul Tarjan

Paul Tarjan works for Stripe specializing in developer productivity. In the past, he has owned his own company and...

47:57

Aug 27, 2019

RR 426: Dockerized Development Environments with Julian Fahrer

Julian Fahrer has been a guest on Devchat shows before and recently did a workshop at RailsConf about Docker. He...

58:10

Aug 20, 2019

RR 425:  Rails + Webpacker with Taylor Jones

Taylor Jones works remotely for Heroku in technical support. He talks about some of the most common issues he helps...

41:36

Aug 13, 2019

RR 424: Documenting Your Code

Today the panel is talking about documentation. They begin by discussing what documentation is, where it fits within...

40:04

Aug 06, 2019

RR 423:  The Well-Grounded Rubyist with David A. Black & Joseph Leo III

David A. Black has been a Ruby user for 19 years and has been writing books about Ruby for the last 14 years. The...

49:13

Jul 30, 2019

RR 422:  Build Chatbot Interactions in Ruby with Daniel Pritchett

Daniel Pritchett started doing Ruby in 2012. Lately he has been working on publishing a book on building Chatbots in...

43:30

Jul 20, 2019

RR 421: Scaling and Shopify with Kir Shatrov

Today’s guest Kir Shatrov is a production engineer on Shopify based in London, UK. Today, he and the panel are...

55:11

Jul 16, 2019

RR 420: Stimulus

Today’s topic is the Stimulus library. Stimulus is actually a JavaScript framework and library, but it’s also built...

33:14

Jul 09, 2019

RR 419: Microservices and Storyscript with Steve Peak

Today’s guest Steve Peak has been an entrepreneur and developer for a decade specializing in building tools. He built...

47:11

Jul 02, 2019

RR 418:  The Life and Death of a Rails App with Olivier Lacan

Olivier Lacan joins the panel again. He currently works for Pluralsight. Today they are talking about the spectrum of...

1:10:24

Jun 25, 2019

RR 416: The Difference between Devise and Warden with Leonardo Tegon

Leonardo Tegon is a software developer at Plataformatec, the company that created Devise. Leonardo talks about how he...

49:52

Jun 11, 2019

RR 415: Code Free Developer Interview with Pete Holiday

Special Guest Pete Holiday is the director of engineering at a company called Samsara and specializes interviewing...

1:15:30

Jun 04, 2019

RR 414: Docker Talk

Today the panel is talking about the many applications of Docker. They talk about where Docker fits into the...

54:30

May 28, 2019

RR 413: When Your Tools Interrupt Your Coding Process

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses how having too many tools in your code can make things more...

1:07:28

May 21, 2019

RR 412:  Asynchronous Jobs on Client Side and Server Side

Dave Kimura starts the episode by defining asynchronous jobs; he and Andrew Mason discuss the differences between...

49:36

May 14, 2019

RR 410: Kubernetes with Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene

The panel discusses what it’s like to learn Kubernetes. Kurtis advises listeners who are learning Kubernetes to...

1:02:31

Apr 30, 2019

RR 408: Zeitwerk with Xavier Noria

This episode of Ruby Rogues features Xavier Noria, who has a background in mathematics, but started software in 2000....

54:03

Apr 16, 2019

RR 407: Functional Programming in Ruby using Dry Gems with Igor Morozov

The panel interviews Igor Morozov about functional programming in ruby. Igor Morozov is a lifelong software...

51:10

Apr 09, 2019

RR 405:   Rubymotion with Lori Olson

Lori Olson introduces herself, her school and ruby motion. Lori invites all to come to her webinar introducing her...

1:06:32

Mar 26, 2019

RR 397: Oracle with Karthik Gaekwad

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists speak with Karthik Gaekwad, who helped build the Oracle Kubernetes...

44:39

Mar 20, 2019

RR 404: Ruby Bindings & Extensions With FFI with Sean Handley

Sean Handley explains in detail ruby bindings and FFI and why they might be useful. The panel discusses the...

50:22

Mar 19, 2019

RR 403: Rails Needs Active Deployment with Stefan Wintermeyer

Stefan Wintermeyer, a german consultant, discusses his recent blog post “Rails needs Active Deployment”. He goes on...

54:42

Mar 12, 2019

RR 402: Ruby 2.6.0 Bugs, Kafka, and Karafka with Maciej Mensfeld

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Maciej Mensfeld, Senior Software Engineer at Castle...

59:55

Mar 05, 2019

RR 400: Celebrating a Milestone - Ruby Rogues 400th Episode

In this 400th episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists - Dave Kimura, Andrew Mason, Eric Berry, Charles Max Wood talk...

1:05:07

Feb 19, 2019

RR 399: Jets Ruby Serverless Framework with Tung Nguyen

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Tung Nguyen, President and Founder of BoltOps AWS Cloud...

1:13:47

Feb 12, 2019

RR 398: Productivity with Mani Vaya

In this episode Mani Vaya — founder of 2000books.com and former programmer — discusses productivity.

1:11:43

Feb 05, 2019

RR 397: Oracle with Karthik Gaekwad

44:39

Jan 29, 2019