Author - John Epperson
John Epperson
John Epperson is the Owner/Principal Software Engineer at Rock Agile ConsultingFollow
Podcasts
<div>Our original panel podcast, Ruby Rogues is a weekly discussion around Ruby, Rails, software development, and the community around Ruby.</div>
706 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
Different doesn’t need to be worse. Dmitry Tsepelev tells us how to make the most of using GraphQL with Rails, the...
48:19
Dec 18, 2024
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, we talk with Ufuk about how Shopify made the transition to using Sorbet and about the...
54:44
Dec 11, 2024
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, Chelsea Troy teaches us to hone our debugging skills to a razor-sharp edge. We learn...
01:13:55
Dec 04, 2024
In this episode of Ruby Rogues, guest Jonathan Reinink joins the Rogues to talk about what Inertia.js is and why...
01:05:01
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...
55:33
Sep 11, 2024
Richard Feldman - author of Elm in Action - joins the Rogues to discuss the advantages of Functional Programming and...
01:22:24
Jul 24, 2024
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out...
01:08:53
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
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
Episodes
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
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
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