BathRuby 2015
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Play | Linda Liukas | 23m |
A children's book and workshop series called Hello Ruby grows from a Rails Girls seed that reached 227 cities and a Kickstarter that raises $380,000 (over… | ||
| TBC | Ben Orenstein | 35m |
Live-coding refactors a Ruby Invitations class that parses a CSV and sends mail, using Vim and RSpec to keep tests fast and green. The talk shows extracting a… | ||
| Learning Code Good | Saron Yitbarek | 17m |
A practical blueprint for learning by reading and doing: weekly one‑hour sessions with one hour, small group sizes of four–five, a tour guide to keep progress… | ||
| Here Be Dragons | Katrina Owen | 24m |
A broken gossip site feature yields a missing I18n interpolation key tidbit_sender fixed by editing the ERB template; debugging uses the JavaScript console… | ||
| A Lever for the Mind | Tom Stuart | 39m |
Argues that abstraction turns fragile human limits into reliable tools, giving concrete examples: the formula n(n+1)/2 yields 1+...+100 = 5,050 without brute… | ||
| Principles of Play | Linda Liukas | 23m |
A children’s programming method focused on playfulness, rules, curiosity argues for teaching concepts before syntax and shows concrete results: a Kickstarter… | ||
| TBC | Ben Orenstein | 35m |
Live coding shows refactoring an Invitations class that parses a CSV of name/email pairs, sends mail via a Mailer, and has a private recipients method moved… | ||
| Learning Code Good | Saron Yitbarek | 17m |
Creates recurring peer learning: weekly one‑hour sessions over Google Hangouts with max five people, target 100 lines of code, a tour guide to keep everyone… | ||
| Lightning Talks Pt 1 | 24m | |
Converted Cisco PHP WebEx sample becomes a production Rails gem: code is ported, PII and debugging comments are scrubbed, and configuration is moved config… | ||
| Here Be Dragons | Katrina Owen | 24m |
A gossip app debug turns into a forensic tour: a JavaScript console shows a 500, a curl request reveals a one-line stack trace, and the real failure is a… | ||
| Lightning Talks Pt 2 | 23m | |
A rapid set of demos and lessons: an open‑source habit runs 152 days and produces a tiny web framework Kevlar that reaches tens of thousands of users, a… | ||
| Nothing is Something | Sandi Metz | 39m |
Argues that every nil or hidden assumption is a missing concept and shows concrete Ruby fixes: monkey-patch true/false to illustrate removing conditionals… | ||
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