S6:E8 - Ruby and Rails: From Features to Governance

In this episode, we talk about Ruby and Rails with Richard Schneeman, principal engineer at Salesforce and Heroku Ruby language owner, and Penelope Phippen, staff software engineer at Stripe, and a director at Ruby Central.

Show Notes

• DevNews (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Scout APM (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Ruby
• Rails
• Rubyfmt
• RubyConf
• RailsConf
• DeadEnd
• Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp Employees Quitting

Penelope Phippen

Penelope Phippen (she/her) is a multifaceted Rubyist who works as a Director at Ruby Central, is the creator of Rubyfmt, and was formerly a lead maintainer of the RSpec project. She frequently writes and speaks about about complex aspects of the Ruby grammar, and issues of social justice for trans people in computer science. She's sad that she can't hug every cat.

Richard Schneeman

Richard Schneeman created and maintains CodeTriage.com, a tool for helping people contribute to open-source When he isn't obsessively compulsively refactoring code he spends his time reminding his kids to wash their hands.

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