Episode 383: Aim for Good (GoodJob) with Ben Sheldon

The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Ben Sheldon is the Director of Engineering Operations at Code for America and the author of the GoodJob gem. He fields all of Brittany's questions about why GoodJob was created, how it leverages Active Job, why a dev team would select it and what the life of an open source maintainer currently looks like.

Show Notes & Links:

• Code for America
• bensheldon/good_job - GitHub
• RailsConf 2015 Keynote (“Rails is my prepper backpack”)
• Stephen Baker’s “History of RSpec”
• Ben's Blog
• Ben Sheldon (@bensheldon) · Twitter

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