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by Rails Foundation, Robby Russell

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Hussain Akram & Antonio Carlos de Souza: Rails Scales for the Rest of Us

October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

Hussain Akram is an engineering manager at Donorbox, and Antonio Carlos de Souza (AC) is its chief architect, working on a Rails app that has helped nonprofits raise money online and in person for more than a decade. Robby, Hussain, and AC…
Eddie Galindo & Kagen Hearn: Rate Limiting For Your Customers

September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

Eddie Galindo is an engineering lead at Ascend and Kagen Hearn is a senior software engineer there, working on a Rails app that helps insurance agencies move and reconcile money. Robby chats with Eddie and Kagen about why Ascend still runs…
Joanna Wang: Code Is Cheap Now; Developers Still Valuable

August 18, 2026 · 43 min

Joanna Wang is a senior software engineer at Sixfold, where the team builds AI underwriting tools that help insurance companies gather data and assess risk. She came to Ruby on Rails after working across Java, Go, Python, and Node. Robby…
Aaron Patterson: Ractors, JIT Compilers, and Rewriting How Gems Install

August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Aaron Patterson, better known online as Tenderlove, a senior staff engineer on Shopify’s Ruby infrastructure team and a longtime contributor to both Ruby and Rails Core. Aaron and Robby chat…
Bryce Harlan: A Decade of Rails in Healthcare

July 8, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Bryce Harlan, a senior engineer at Phamily, the text-based chronic care management platform built by Jaan Health. Bryce has spent the last decade helping evolve Phamily's Ruby on Rails…

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Nikky Southerland: Lessons from 13 Years of Rails at the Auto Shop

June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Robby is joined by Nikky Southerland, Lead Software Engineer at Shop-Ware — a cloud-based platform that helps independent automotive service shops run their businesses. Ruby on Rails has powered Shop-Ware since the first line of code was…
DHH: Basecamp 5, Vibe Coding, and the Future of Rails

June 12, 2026 · 60 min

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals⁩, joins Robby Russell the same week 37signals shipped Basecamp 5 to talk through the shift reshaping how software actually gets built today: why he reversed his…
Tom Rossi: Staying as Rails as Possible

May 15, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

Tom Rossi, co-founder of Higher Pixels and the team behind Buzzsprout, joins Robby to talk about what it really looks like to stay "as Rails as possible", purely out of pragmatism. With over 472,000 podcasts on the platform and a team of…
Jason Meller: Rails, Security, and the AI Advantage

May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Jason Meller, founder of Kolide (acquired by 1Password in 2023) and now VP of Product at 1Password, joins Robby for a conversation about a career at the intersection of Rails, cybersecurity, and building. They dig into why Rails has become…
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom

April 22, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, where a 15-year-old Rails monolith with millions of lines of code sits at the heart of the business. Brian shares how Intercom's…
Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple

April 13, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Simone Carletti, CTO of DNSimple, where Rails has sat at the core of a globally distributed DNS platform since the company launched in 2010. Simone walks through how DNSimple's infrastructure…
Jay Tennier: How Testing Platform Rainforest QA Tests Itself

December 9, 2025 · 1 hr 40 min

In this episode of On Rails, Robby is joined by Jay Tennier, Engineering Manager at Rainforest QA, where he's spent over seven years working across a long-lived Rails monolith and supporting services. They explore how Rainforest maintains…

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On Rails invites Rails developers to share real-world technical challenges and solutions, architectural decisions, and lessons learned while building with Rails. Through technical deep-dives and retrospectives with experienced engineers in the Rails community, we explore the strategies behind building and scaling Rails applications. Hosted by Robby Russell of Planet Argon and produced by the Rails Foundation.