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Rails World 2025 Ruby Passport - Adrian Marin and Adrien Poly
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, Avo creator Adrian Marin and Plume CTO Adrien Poly announced a new initiative - physical Ruby passports to track...
Exploring the Rails World 2025 talks. FriendlyRB and EURUKO
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey folks! It’s Yaro here, and in this episode, Adrian and I are super pumped to chat about the upcoming Ruby triathlon and the conferences we’re...
The real cost of small Ruby conference organizing: Success stories and financial risks
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special crossover episode, hosts from The Friendly Show, Indie Rails, and Code with Jason come together to share the unvarnished truth about o...
Adrian & Yaro: Christmas Classics, AI coding, SuperRails & AVO updates 🎄 Unwrapping 2024!
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DEAR FRIENDSMERRY CHRISTMASTHANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. WE LOVE YOU!- Adrian & YaroThis episode highlights the blend o...
Wes Oudshoorn - AppSignal's Stroopwafel Adventures 🇳🇱 Sprinkled with Community Love!
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how a simple Dutch treat became a beloved symbol in the Ruby and Rails community? Join us as we chat with Wes Oudshoorn, co-founder of A...
Friendly Show November 2024. Black Friday deals, SupeRails PRO, Hotwire Native, Office Hours
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a busy conference season Yaro & Adrian take the time to talk about ongoing projects.AVO Black Friday deal: https://avohq.io/dealsSupeRails B...
Celebrating Rails World 2024 with Tom Rossi from Buzzsprout. Rails conventions
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Rossi runs HigherPixels and Buzzsprout - the best podcasting app.We actually use Buzzsprout for this podcast!Buzzsprout has a very professional po...
Andrew Culver: BulletTrain, ClickFunnels & Family Adventures 🚀 Live from Rails World 2024!
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could transform your entrepreneurial dreams into reality with just a few strategic moves?Join us as we sit down with Andrew Culver, Chief ...
Cirdes Henrique, Tropical on Rails 2025 organizer. Live from Rails World 2024
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cirdes Henrique (@cirdesh) is the organiser of Tropical RB in Brazil 🇧🇷🌴This year Adrian visited the first edition of the conference where me...
Caleb Porzio: Crafting Open Source Dreams and Financial Freedom with Flux 🚀
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the inspiring journey of Caleb Porzio, a pivotal figure in open source innovation, as he reveals the secrets to balancing a career fuelled by...
Live from Rails World 2024! Featuring Jess Brown, Drew Bragg and Jeremy Smith
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We meet with the hosts of "Indie Rails" & "Code and the Coding Coders who Code it" in the Rails World podcast booth to share o...
Taylor Otwell: How Rails inspired Laravel 🚀 Live from Rails World 2024!
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how one of the most popular PHP frameworks came to be? We've got you covered with an exclusive conversation with Taylor Otwell, the...
🥑 Avo joins TinySeed 🤑! What will Adrian do with the money?
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about:Adrians' worldwide conference tour in the first half of 2024 (Tropical RB, Singapore, Sin City)Yaro & Adrian spending time toge...
🇧🇬 BalkanRuby: Radoslav Stankov does not need Hotwire ⛔️
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One more cool cat from BalkanRuby!This time we talk to Rado ex-producthunt head of engineering, building his own product - AngryBuilding. He is the o...
Nick Sutterer - Trailblazer daddy, ViewComponents grandpa, heart of the party
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick is one of the most fun exciting people to be around!He has a few superpowers:1. Developing unique Ruby tools way ahead of their timeHe created Tr...
Genadi Samokovarov - Balkan Ruby organizer
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the first moment I met Genadi I felt “this guy is great to be around“!In this episode he talks about the 🇧🇬 ruby community, organising...
Balkan Ruby! 👽 Irina Nazarova. Making $ on Dev tools 🤑🤑🤑
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are visiting Balkan Ruby in Sofia, Bulgaria.In this surprise mini-episode we discuss making $$ on dev tools with Irina Nazarova, CEO of v...
Why Detroit?! Meet Ufuk, the secret organizer behind Rails Conf 2024
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RailsConf is happening on 7-9 of May!And Ufuk is the lead organizer!He recently joined the Ruby Central board of directors.He is on the Shopify infras...
Meet SQLite Jesus, Stephen Margheim
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steven is on a mission to make SQLite good enough for production.We talked aboutSQLite and Litestackcontributing to open sourcebeing "the guy&quo...
Amanda Perino: It's RailsWorld 2024 CFP season! How to become a speaker?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the dialogue with Amanda Perino, CEO of the Rails Foundation, as we unpack the intricacies and excitement of Rails World 2024. Amanda brings her...
Andy's Tech Tales: The Brighton Ruby Conference, RailsConf Proposals, and Nurturing Junior Talent
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the conversation with the serial conference organizer Andy Croll, where we talk about how he started Brighton Ruby, why he's still doing it,...
The end
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 1 finale!Today we talk about:our reflections about 2023 and plans for 2024Rails 8 featuresHighlights:👶Being a young father⛵️Sailing✈️...
Mariusz Koziel - Ruby community in Poland, how to become CTO and CEO
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mariusz is an old friend of ours. Over the last few years, we've chilled 🍻 at many events around 🇪🇺 He works at an iconic ruby consultin...
Andrea Rocca, Hotwire Cookbook, Rails UI, and flying foxes
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise surprise: we invited our friend Andrea to the FRIENDLY show!We talked about:💰 How Andrea switched to programming and became CTO🙆♂️...
What are our plans for Brovember? Wait, since when is Brovember a thing?
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I think it was one of our most chill, relaxed episodes.Take a break and join us as we discuss:Building a new Rails starter kit?Rails UI framew...
Adrian and Yaro talk about RailsWorld, EuRuKo and FriendlyRB
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian and Yaroslav completed a Triathlon by visiting 3 Ruby conferences in the span of 3 weeks! Today we meet to share our fresh emotions aft...
André Arko and how we got RubyGems and Bundler. RubyConf 2023: what to expect?
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
André is a long-term maintainer for RubyGems and Bundler - fundamental tools of the Ruby community that we usually take for granted.🎙️ H...
Jonathan Markwell talks about SaaS, validating ideas, and Conferences
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Markwell talks to us about the early days of SaaS, Remote work, and Brighton Ruby. He told us how Brighton Ruby came to be, how he me...
The Ruby On Rails Interview Bible - Author Nezir Zahirović talks about his book
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we speak with Nezir Zahirović, author of The Ruby On Rails Interview Bible, about how his first contact with technology and how he got ...
Adrian and Yaro visit the RailsSaaS Conference in Athens, Greece
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk about our awesome times at the Rails Saas conference in Athens last week. We touched on how well the conference was organized, t...
Who are Yaro and Adrian?
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is our clumsy but spontaneous attempt at podcasting. We had a call on Sunday, scheduled for Thursday, and just went on the call to see ho...