Rails Business

Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.

Podcasting since 2025 • 43 episodes

Rails Business

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Andrew Atkinson

What do you do when the database is maxed out, the busiest day of your year is six months away, and you still don't know what's actually wrong? Andrew Atkinson joins us to talk through that exact scenario at Aura Frames - the Christmas Day 2024...

September 24, 2026 • Episode 43 • 58:48

Claude Skills, Spam, and the Last 10%

No guest this week — just Brendan and Ryan working through several things they've been seeing lately. Topics covered include: - Anthropic's skills: why both of us started by writing one giant skill instead of small composable ones...

September 10, 2026 • Episode 42 • 42:31

Jesse Hanley of Bento

Jesse Hanley joined us from southern Japan, where he runs Bento — an email marketing and transactional email platform — as a company of one. Topics covered include:Why the bootstrapped dream now means picking big, hairy, competitive...

August 27, 2026 • Episode 41 • 51:55

Jim Remsik

Jim Remsik — founder of Flagrant, Madison Ruby and the traveling XO Ruby conferences — joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. The discussion starts with the ups and downs of running a design-and-dev agency in the AI era. Topics c...

August 13, 2026 • Episode 40 • 56:07

Nate Berkopec

Nate Berkopec (Speedshop) returns to dig into what AI actually changes about Rails performance work — and it's not what the hype says. The through-line: stop conflating understanding code with verifying it, because the real leverage is building...

August 07, 2026 • Episode 39 • 56:52

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