Ancient City Ruby 2014
2014-04-03..2014-04-04
St. Augustine, United States
[Ancient City Ruby 2014, Ancient City Ruby 2015, Ancient City Ruby 2016]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Look at | 02m | |
Conference design focuses on the whole experience rather than just talks, bringing 200 rubies together in St. Augustine and pairing sessions with social… | ||
| Leon's Allegory of the Cave | Leon Gersing | 40m |
Argues that software people hold disproportionate cultural power and identifies three caves: environmental, societal, mental that trap creativity, with… | ||
| Breaking Up (With) Your Test Suite | Justin Searls | 31m |
It's about time for the Ruby community to adopt a more mature and nuanced approach to testing.
Gone are the days when "is it tested?" was a boolean question… | ||
| Overkill | Katrina Owen | 30m |
A Ruby test suite called the Bob kata classifies utterances into silence, question, shout or other and sees real-world lessons: about 2,000 people solve it… | ||
| Testing the Untestable | Richard Schneeman | 34m |
Heroku’s Ruby buildpack starts with zero tests and grows into a 4,573‑line, edge‑case ridden system; the cure is black‑box integration tests that actually… | ||
| Fast, Testable and SANE APIs | Ben Lovell | 32m |
Covers adopting the JSON API spec for compound documents, side‑loading and sparse fieldsets, and using rails-api to strip middleware so Rails runs fewer layers… | ||
| Ruby & You | Terence Lee | 48m |
A heap overflow in floating point parsing CVE-2013-4164 forces a decision: Heroku backports and ships security patches for Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2, tests them… | ||
| Postgres Performance for Humans | Craig Kerstiens | 31m |
Targets concrete metrics and actions: aim for 99% cache hit and ~95% index hit rate, use pg_stat_statements to find the queries that consume the most time, and… | ||
| Introduction to Elixir for Rubyists | Josh Adams | 42m |
Elixir runs on the Erlang VM and compiles to BEAM bytecode, borrows Ruby-like syntax, and emphasizes pattern matching, lightweight processes and the pipe… | ||
| Oh, Oh, Oh, It's Magic! | Aaron Patterson | 43m |
Built a card-scanning pipeline in Ruby + OpenCV that crops cards via grayscale → Canny → contours → polygon → warp, computes perceptual hashes with libphash… | ||
| Hack Me If You Can | Konstantin Haase | 42m |
Covers concrete exploits and fixes: examples include cross-site scripting via injected HTML, session cookies leaked over open Wi‑Fi and via CSRF image… | ||
| Juggling Children... and Rubies | Evan Machnic | 18m |
Daily routine starts at 6am, gets an older child to a 7:10 bus and works 9–5, then family dinner and kids in bed around 8pm, with personal dev time until… | ||
| Workshops | Micah Cooper, Beverly Nelson, Katrina Owen, Jon Allured, Paul Elliott | 01m |
Workshops run Wednesday April 2, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM with a lunch break and you may choose only one of three concurrent sessions. Options are refactor an existing… | ||
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