Blue Ridge Ruby Insights & Experiences

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David are back together with David starting out giving a recap of Blue Ridge Ruby and his renewed motivation to contribute to open source. The group discusses the value of smaller single-track conferences to hallway conversations, and lightning talks. The conversation then shifts into real-world Rails and Stripe lessons, including workshop prep, validation decisions, webhook recovery, subscription edge cases, and the growing complexity of payment integrations. Hit download now to hear more!

Links

• Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift
• Getting Started with Rails with Chris Oliver (Frontend Masters Live Interactive Workshop)
• Ruby Conferences 2026

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