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Hosted by Brendan Buckingham & Ryan Frisch · technology · EN-US
Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBrendan Buckingham and Ryan Frisch talk about developing with Ruby on Rails and how to leverage it to build a business.
Rails Business is hosted by Brendan Buckingham & Ryan Frisch. The show has published 45 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Andrew Atkinson" (24 September 2026, 59 minutes), "Claude Skills, Spam, and the Last 10%" (10 September 2026, 43 minutes), and "Jesse Hanley of Bento" (27 August 2026, 52 minutes).
Rails Business publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 45 episodes.
Booking probability for Rails Business is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Rails Business requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Rails Business's contact route on record: verified email.
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Brendan Buckingham & Ryan Frisch hosts Rails Business, a technology podcast with 45 episodes published.
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Episode #43
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...
Episode #42
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...
Episode #41
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...
Episode #40
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...
Episode #38
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...
Episode #37
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...
Rails Business
Colleen Schnettler and Joe Masilotti ( Permission Not Required podcast ) join Ryan and Brendan to catch up on what they're each building. Joe walks through Ruby Native — his platform for getting Rails apps into the App...
Episode #35
Ryan and Brendan talk through the growing pains of AI-assisted development — including fatigue, increased confidence in bigger code changes, and what happens when you stop paying for expensive APM tools and just build...
Episode #34
Scott Werner (Sublayer) returns to discuss how rapidly AI and agentic coding have is changing. The hosts and Scott dig into why niche tools are increasingly getting replicated by developers and hobbyists with "good...
Episode #33
The hosts explore whether “data is the new moat” in SaaS and argues that data alone—especially customer data—is rarely defensible as extraction and migration get easier. Instead, moats increasingly come from clear...
Episode #32
The hosts once again discuss the recurring theme of AI’s impact on development workflows. They discuss various topics, including: Increased PR volume from AI-assisted coding and whether traditional pull request reviews...
Episode #31
In this episode, the hosts discuss building a “universal scraper” for event calendars and a new AI-assisted workflow using a long-running orchestrator.md thread. 00:12 Why Change AI Workflow 01:29 Orchestrator File...
Episode #30
The hosts discuss how AI-assisted coding has massively increased their output, creating a new bottleneck: cognitive load, PR review, testing, and getting work shipped. Ryan discusses splitting time between finishing...
Episode #29
Today we discuss lessons from our previous episode with John Nunemaker, focusing on the Conductor tool and how multi-workspace, multi-agent workflows can speed up coding and bug fixing. Brendan shares his experimenting...
Episode #28
John Nunemaker returns to discuss how fast AI tooling has changed and argues tech leaders should adopt Claude Max (defaulting to Opus), set up agent-friendly local environments, and roll that out to their teams. He...
Episode #27
In this episode, Kyle Keesling, co-owner of PASS Testing and long-time solo Rails developer, shares how PASS grew from a college web design side project into a niche software and training business for the Underground...
Episode #26
In this episode, the hosts reconnect after a holiday break to reflect on their podcast journey over the last year. They discuss important milestones like their one-year recording anniversary, the various episodes from...
Episode #25
In this episode, the hosts discuss reflect on the high-quality, maintainable code found in various videos and books and their own aspirations to emulate such coding standards. The conversation covers the challenges of...
Episode #24
In this episode, we chat with Mateus Pereira from Ombu Labs about the nuances of Rails upgrades and how AI is revolutionizing the process. From tackling gem dependencies to client collaboration, Mateus shares valuable...
Episode #23
In this episode, Nate Berkopec, the proprietor of Speedshop, a Ruby on Rails performance consultancy, author of several books including the Complete Guide to Rails Performance, and a maintainer of Puma , joins the...
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