David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails
Chat with DHH about nuance, where he stands with TDD today, increasing the bandwidth of conversations and his thoughts on how F/OSS softwar…
Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke (@Bantik) gave a talk about Artisans & Apprentices at RailsConf 2014. She describes her experences and what led her …
Rafael França
Rafael França was noted by the Ruby Hero committee for being one of the most prolific committers they evaluated for the Ruby Hero awards fo…
Zassmin Montes de Oca
Zassmin Montes de Oca is the Executive Director and Board Vice Chair with the Women Who Code organiztion. WWC is a non-profit dedicated to …
Andy Maleh
Interview with Andy Maleh at RailsConf Chicago 2014. Andy presented Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards at the conference and we cha…
Carlos Antonio da Silva
Carlos Antonio da Silva a Rails Core team member and a maintainer of the Devise and simple_form RubyGems shares some insight into the trick…
Dnyaneshwar Nerkar (Gyani) and Nitin Dhaware
Interview with Nitin Dhaware and Dnyaneshwar Nerkar (Gyani) at RailsConf 2014. We discuss their presentation Empowering Rich Internet Appli…
Greg Baugues
Greg Baugues is a Developer Evangelist with Twilio and he chats with us about how he came to share his own personal struggles with mental d…
Justin Gordon
Justin Gordon walks us through the journey he went through while learning and changing the message he wanted to share though his presentati…
Kiyoto Tamura
Chat with Kiyoto Tamura who is a maintainer on the FluentD log integration tool. We chat about what exactly FluentD is, how it got it's nam…
Obie Fernandez
Author The Rails Way & co-founder Hashrocket
Obie Fernandez was an early adopter and teacher in the Rails community. At RailsConf 2014 he lead a panel on the future of Rails jobs.
Jonathon Kresner
Jonathon Kresner was at RailsConf conducting online interviews with speakers at RailsConf to promote his company AirPair. I was interested …
Javier Ramirez
Javier Ramirez challenges us to go back to the beginning of Rails and the eventual adoption of the REST concepts to think about what REST m…
Farrah Bostic
Farrah Bostic asks a bold question What happens when everyone learns to code? We're moving past the days of computers being just those magi…
Jeremy Green
Jeremy Green shares his presentation on how to build authentication systems that can span multiple SOA nodes but work with a single system …
Mike Pack
Mike Pack tells us about the Full Stack Meetup that he organizes in Denver, Colorado as well as the Denver.rb user-group that he co-organiz…
Liz Abinante
Co-leader Girl Develop It Chicago at RailsConf 2014
Liz Abinante aka @feministy is the co-leader of Girl Develop It Chicago chapter.
Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
After a lovely interview that fell flat due to technical difficulties Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale were willing to redo the interview but I s…
Jen Myers
Jen Myers shares with us some information on the Rails Girls Summer of Code event while at RailsConf 2014. Learn more about how YOU can par…
Justin Searls
Justin Searls explains what Lineman.js and the problems that drove him to create the tool. Justin also describes his very intense process t…
Alexander Dymo
Alexander Dymo presented Improve performance: Optimize Memory and Upgrade to Ruby 2.1 at RailsConf 2014. Alexander is also working on a Rub…
Evan Phoenix
Evan Phoenix is one of those rare outliers who has an unbelievable talent for creating complex tools that are incredibly useful and help dr…
Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
The Lost Interview
This interview with Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale was the first attempt we made at publishing a conversation on UGtastic. It was also my first…
Leah Silber
Leah Silber shares with us her experience with building and supporting large technical communities.
Justin Collins
Justin Collins is the creator of the Brakeman static analysis for Rails tool and was presenting on Tales from the Crypt a team presentation…
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler is an early leader in the Ruby community and an active author, teacher, and speaker. His most well known book being The Passion…
Ray Hightower
Ray Hightower was amongst the first people interviewed on UGtastic and he's back talking about his latest conference announcement - RubyCar…
Joel Turnbull
Joel Turnbull shares his experience that lead to his presentation on Debugger Driven Development. He describes the Pry tool a beautiful enh…
Richard Schneeman
Richard Schneeman aka Schneems chats about his work at Heroku as well as his work and history with the Ruby community and his new book Hero…
Evan Light
Evan Light is a frequent contributor to F/OSS and even works with Rackspace to help with their integration with tools such as the Fog RubyG…
Aaron Patterson
Ruby & Rails Core team member
Aaron Patterson provides a balance to the force of DHH and it felt appropriate for him to close out RailsConf and to hear his perspective o…
RailsConf Chicago 2014