Ancient City Ruby 2015
2015-03-25..2015-03-27
St. Augustine, United States
[Ancient City Ruby 2014, Ancient City Ruby 2015, Ancient City Ruby 2016]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A look at Ancient City Ruby 2015 | 02m | |
Small, scenic conference held in St. Augustine, FL with warm, encouraging attendees and surprisingly low awkwardness; many in-person meetups with GitHub… | ||
| Ruby Survey: 6 Years of Data Revealed | Hampton Lintorn Catlin | 51m |
Six years of a recurring Ruby Survey release raw numbers and site data for the first time, with the first run showing 1200 respondents in 2008 and gaps where… | ||
| Rubyist meets Swift | Jay Hayes | 39m |
Compares Ruby idioms to concrete Swift code: shows how Swift handles variables/constants, optionals and the coalescing operator, external vs internal parameter… | ||
| Your Company Culture is "Awesome" | Pamela O. Vickers | 28m |
Argues that “awesome” culture is not perks but a system: use PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement), prioritize project… | ||
| RESCUE SQUAD: Rails Edition! | Ben Lovell | 28m |
A five‑step rescue plan for rotten Rails apps that delivers concrete actions: enforce style with RuboCop, capture coverage and cyclomatic complexity via… | ||
| The Junior Jump: from Student to Team Member | Rebecca Poulson | 17m |
Advice for onboarding new engineers focuses on concrete practices: set a plan with a first-30-day project that is useful but not mission-critical, pair each… | ||
| Containerized Ruby Applications with Docker | Laura Frank | 47m |
Claims that Docker lets Ruby apps boot in seconds instead of minutes by replacing VMs with lightweight containers, demonstrated by building a Ruby 2.1.2 image… | ||
| 3D Printing, Ruby and Solar Panels | Romeeka Gayhart | 42m |
Shows how SketchUp plus the SketchUp Ruby API turns a roof photo from Google Earth into a to-scale model, runs SketchUp’s shadow solver for time-of-day… | ||
| Estimation and Trust-Driven Development | Noel Rappin | 15m |
Estimation treats story complexity as the reliable signal and velocity as the calibratable one: break work into Fibonacci-sized stories, assign points measure… | ||
| Building Better Web APIs with Rails | Carlos Souza | 42m |
Five concrete practices for APIs on Rails: keep routes expressive but route filtered endpoints to focused controllers instead of fat project controllers… | ||
| Ancient Rails | Scott Parker | 46m |
Aging Rails apps grow from ~20k lines in 2008 to >300k by 2015, with 43% of code older than a year and one third of 2009 code still running, so decisions haunt… | ||
| Beyond Good and ORMs | Kerri Miller | 46m |
Argues that ORMs hide built‑in database features and shows concrete alternatives: create database views to replace expensive joins (example: 50 restaurants… | ||
| Ruby after Rails | Ernie Miller | 31m |
Claim: Rails-style server rendering is declining as apps become API backends and client frameworks grow, but Ruby itself persists. Evidence: existing… | ||
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