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 • 41 episodes

Rails Business

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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 • 51:31

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

Ryan Castillo

Ryan Castillo returns to talk about pivoting Knowatoa from an SEO play into an AI-visibility tool — and why the analytics everyone wants to track are becoming impossible to trust in an AI-search world. The back half turns into a deep dive on Ry...

July 23, 2026 • Episode 38 • 53:36

Ernesto Tagwerker

Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby.io / OmbuLabs) returns to talk through how AI is reshaping both sides of his business — speeding up Rails upgrades while simultaneously eating into revenue, and opening a new lane in AI strategy consulting for non-te...

July 09, 2026 • Episode 37 • 53:29

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