Author - John Epperson
John Epperson
John Epperson is the Owner/Principal Software Engineer at Rock Agile ConsultingFollow
Podcasts
Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.
702 Episodes
Episodes
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and...
1:11:11
Feb 02, 2021
This episode of Adventures in DevOps is joined by John Epperson. John is a developer and has worked in DevOps for his...
50:02
Nov 05, 2019
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
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why...
Nov 06, 2024
Valentino Stoll takes us on a tour of the "gems" of features built into the core Ruby language. We explore tips and...
Sep 11, 2024
Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and...
Jul 24, 2024
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out...
Jul 10, 2024
If you’re wondering how to make sense of all these frameworks, you’ve come to the right podcast. In this episode, the...
1:03:45
Sep 13, 2023
Hilary Stohs-Krause is the Co-Owner and VP at Ten Forward Consulting. Having already spoken at the RubyConf mini last...
1:13:58
Feb 01, 2023
Gavin Morrice is a Senior Ruby Engineer at Cookpad. It is a food tech company and the largest online recipe platform....
34:49
Jan 18, 2023
Returning guest, Trae Robrock is the founder of greenbits.com but eventually sold the company. In addition, he...
54:44
Jan 11, 2023
Kinsey Durham Grace is an Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer at GitHub. She is also a lecturer at RailsBridge where...
53:33
Jan 04, 2023
When working with software or applications, developers and programmers encounter a variety of distinct system issues...
1:08:26
Dec 28, 2022
Masafumi Okura is a freelance software developer focusing on Ruby on Rails. He joined RubyKaigi 2022 as a helper...
50:11
Nov 16, 2022
Today on the show, Máximo Mussini shares how your front-end framework can benefit from integrating rails models and...
1:13:01
Aug 17, 2022
Today on the show, Charles shares about his current projects and inner workings related to managing files and text on...
44:48
Jul 20, 2022
How do you develop remotely in new ecosystems such as when you are on vacation, in a coffee shop, or traveling for...
55:22
Jun 29, 2022
Making his second appearance on the podcast, Maciej Mensfeld joins the show to share his latest developments with his...
1:10:42
Jun 15, 2022
John Epperson and Luke Stutters discuss developer tools - whether those are the IDEs or Text Editors we use, the...
1:15:33
Jun 08, 2022
Andy Maleh joins the show today to share his opensource desktop development library app for Ruby, Glimmer. Enjoy...
1:07:40
May 25, 2022
Episodes
Anton Ivanopoulos joins the show today to share his approach with using Isolator and Sidekiq to ensure simple,...
41:02
Apr 28, 2022
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) creator of Ruby on Rails joins the Rogues to discuss the successor to the asset...
1:18:33
Apr 20, 2022
If you’re a solo developer who’s making the switch to a company, this episode is for you. Today, the Ruby Rogues...
1:14:24
Apr 06, 2022
Before you jump into legacy codebases and controllers, you need some info. In this episode, John sits down with Petr...
43:29
Mar 16, 2022
Not a fan of typical Ruby? We got you. In this episode, the Rogues talk with Bruno Sutic, an Async Ruby developer who...
1:01:05
Mar 02, 2022
Rails 7 is HERE and we’re pumped. In this episode, the Ruby Rogues discuss all things migration, including the BEST...
1:08:55
Feb 16, 2022
If you feel like Ruby could use a makeover, you’re not alone. In this episode, the Rogues sit down with Kevin Newton,...
1:04:19
Feb 09, 2022
If you’re wondering how to make sense of all these frameworks, you’ve come to the right podcast. In this episode, the...
1:06:52
Jan 19, 2022
Ivo Anjo joins the Rogues to discuss Ractors in Ruby and how they can be used. They're not actors as they appear in...
1:10:08
Dec 15, 2021
Samuel Cochran, creator and maintainer of MailCatcher joins the Rogues to discuss how he pulled EventMachine together...
55:40
Dec 01, 2021
Vlado Cingel recounts his story where he needed common table expressions within SQL for a project he was working on...
1:02:36
Nov 17, 2021
Ulysse Buonomo ran into an issue in the application he works on where the Heroku applications were taking up more and...
1:08:12
Nov 03, 2021
Jorge Manrubia is a Security developer at BaseCamp. He discusses the encryption features added in Ruby on Rails and...
1:10:08
Oct 27, 2021
Riaz Virani joins the Rogues to discuss how to thrive at your first Dev Job. He has five main ideas that when applied...
1:28:25
Oct 20, 2021
Jeremy Evans joins the Rogues to discuss the way he builds Ruby programs and the practices he put into his latest...
1:17:49
Oct 13, 2021
Huzefa Biyawarwala joins the Rogues to discuss developer tooling around Docker and how it's used with Ruby and Rails....
59:45
Sep 29, 2021
Maxwell Anselm discusses the options that he's found to build multi-platform mobile applications. The panel chimes in...
1:02:51
Sep 15, 2021
Dave Kimura, John Epperson, Luke Stutters, Darren Broemmer, and Valentino Stoll talk about their experiences in...
1:16:44
Sep 01, 2021
Milap Neupane joins the Rogues to talk about how to know how robust your Rails apps are. Sometimes you forget to...
1:11:15
Aug 04, 2021
Fabio Perrella joins the Rogues to discuss debugging Ruby programs and how to find problems across your code and your...
1:10:42
Jul 28, 2021
Jason Dinsmore went spelunking through the changelogs for Rails and pulled out the latest features for the most...
51:25
Jul 14, 2021
The Ruby fiber scheduler is a powerful new feature in Ruby that we brought Wander Hillen along to discuss with us....
1:01:39
Jul 07, 2021
Jake Yesbeck joins the Rogues this week to talk about how to handle models and data migrations in your Ruby on Rails...
1:06:30
Jun 30, 2021
Christian Clausen is the author of the book Five Lines of Code in the Manning Early Access Program. He advocates for...
52:13
Jun 16, 2021
Chuck has been fighting an authorization system in an application he's building in his spare time. John, Dave, and...
1:06:21
Feb 02, 2021
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out...
1:10:43
Jan 26, 2021
We discuss the value of bootcamps and whether new developers should consider them. We also touch a little bit on...
1:03:50
Jan 19, 2021
Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and...
57:36
Jan 05, 2021
Onboarding and leveling up Junior developers can be tricky. Emily Giurleo joins the Rogues to discuss the process for...
1:03:38
Dec 30, 2020
Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we...
1:00:58
Dec 23, 2020
Jesse Spevack tells us about a conference topic he gave where big mistakes were made at his company. Having lived...
1:07:32
Nov 26, 2020
2,049 members of the Rails community from 92 countries kindly contributed their thoughts on tools, frameworks, and...
53:10
Nov 17, 2020
Episodes
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn...
1:16:09
Nov 10, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Eric Hayes joins us with the story of his journey into the dark, undocumented depths...
1:03:13
Nov 03, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Joe Santos Garcia from CodingPhase joins the panel to talk about how to successfully...
1:06:12
Oct 27, 2020
React on Rails version 12 brings major improvements for hot reloading and bundle splitting. Justin Gordon talks about...
1:12:58
Oct 13, 2020
Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the...
49:59
Oct 06, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why...
1:07:10
Sep 29, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the...
58:29
Sep 22, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists discuss the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in...
1:09:07
Sep 15, 2020
Episodes
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk to James Dabbs as we explore a number of subjects and topics around refactoring
1:00:24
Sep 01, 2020
Tricia Ball talks to the Rogues about diversity in tech. We discuss the declining numbers of women in tech (and the...
1:04:48
Aug 18, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues guest, Dylan Andrews (GoNoodle) shares his journey from pro-drummer to junior...
58:15
Aug 04, 2020
As the world becomes more security conscious, we need to think about the ways we allow people to authenticate to our...
1:23:40
Jul 28, 2020
John Beatty joins the Rogues to talk about building Progressive Web Applications on Ruby on Rails. He walks the...
50:44
Jul 21, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, James Thompson, a Software Architect at Mavenlink, delves into how to address errors...
1:00:30
Jul 14, 2020
Lee Richmond is one of the primary developers behind the Graphiti library for Ruby. Lee describes Graphiti as the...
1:09:17
Jun 30, 2020
Dee Dee Lavinder talks with the Rogues about how we can create space for introverts to participate in discussions,...
1:10:01
May 19, 2020
Dave Aronson joins the Rogues to talk about Mutation Testing in Ruby. The conversation starts with a discussion of...
1:08:04
May 12, 2020
Ivan Nemytchenko is a freelancer. He's a speaker and conference organizer. Ivan spoke at RailsConf about abstract...
48:57
May 05, 2020
Sean Marcia organizes Ruby For Good—an organization for building technology to solve the world's problems and an in...
52:18
Apr 21, 2020
This episode is a roundup discussion about what the podcast hosts have going on these days. John talks about going...
45:47
Apr 14, 2020
Daniel Colson, from Thoughtbot and maintainer of Factory Bot, joins Dave Kimura, Luke Sutters, Tom Rossi, and John...
1:09:35
Apr 07, 2020
We talk with Vladimir Dementyev about Ruby Next, its use cases and why you might want to get features from newer...
52:34
Mar 31, 2020
Chris O’Sullivan joins the Rogues to talk about the people who influenced Ruby and how it’s shaped the community and...
59:58
Mar 17, 2020
David Kimura and John Epperson talk with Ian Norris on his experiences with Pair Programming. We discuss...
56:55
Mar 03, 2020
Colin Fulton has written a Ruby implementation in assembly for the Apple II. He's also got a fondness for the...
57:11
Feb 25, 2020
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Zachary and the panelists speak about doing small projects. They cover half-done...
1:05:21
Feb 18, 2020
Jon Druse is a developer from Tennessee and has been using Rails for 15 years. He starts the show by sharing some of...
41:46
Feb 04, 2020
Bob Quillin and Karthik Gaekwad are on the Oracle developer relations team. Karthik has been on Ruby Rogues...
46:57
Jan 21, 2020
Today the panel is talking about their development environments and preferences. Most of them run on Macs, but they...
58:37
Jan 14, 2020
Mithun leads development relations at HERE Technologies which specializes in building location services and location...
1:01:17
Jan 07, 2020