Behind the Scenes: Developing Podias New Version

Chris, Andrew, and David open with some classic confusion over what day it is then dive into Podia’s gradual rollout of a major new app version, including how the team is handling migration, feature flags, dogfooding, and eventual cleanup. From there, the discussion turns to underrated Rails routing features like direct routes and resolve routes, a newly merged Rails query command, observability improvements through Hatchbox’s AppSignal integration, and the ongoing pain of CSS build tooling in Rails apps. They also touch on conference season and their upcoming talks. Press download now to hear more! Links Judoscale- Remote Ruby listener gift Direct Routes Instance Public methods-direct (name, options = {}, &block) Instance Public methods-resolve (*args, &block) GitHub-Query command for read-only database queries #57156 App Signal for Hatchbox Blastoff Rails-June 11-12, 2026, Albuquerque, NM Frontend Masters Workshop-May 26, 2026-Getting Started with Rails (Chris Oliver) Toronto Tech Week- May 25-29, 2026 Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter