Burlington Ruby Conference 2013
2013-08-03..2013-08-04
Burlington, United States
who it's for
ruby developers, rails developers, devops engineers, engineering managers, community organizers, embedded developers
topics
code quality tooling and metrics; team factoring refactoring; frappuccino FRP gem; active_model_serializers usage; JSON API shaped APIs; Rails 4 live streaming and websockets; zero downtime deploys with USR2; Unicorn NGINX Runit Capistrano workflow; mruby on microcontrollers; log management and monitoring practices; developer negotiation tactics; burnout prevention and micro meditations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building Code Quality | Bryan Helmkamp | 33m |
Argues for measurable, incremental fixes: boy scout rule (leave code cleaner than found), stop introducing new slop, and follow two steps — assemble… | ||
| Functional Reactive Programming | Steve Klabnik | 33m |
A Ruby FRP implementation named frappuccino gem arrives as working code: streams, map/inject operators, and a button example that increments and decrements a… | ||
| Building Ambitious APIs with Ruby | Dan Gebhardt | 35m |
A concrete workflow for an Ember + Rails API: scaffold a Pets/Toys app, use active_model_serializers with Ember Data, and follow the emerging JSON API shape to… | ||
| Esoteric Library | Zachary Scott | 46m |
A tour of Ruby’s buried standard‑library tools shows concrete claims and demos not abstractions The presenter builds a DRb chat server hitting real issues then… | ||
| Millions of Apps: What we've learned | Richard Schneeman | 44m |
Heroku reports millions of apps deployed and distills experience into a 12-factor style checklist: keep secrets out of source control, use environment… | ||
| Negotiations for Hackers | Danielle Sucher | 44m |
Covers concrete negotiation moves: practice asking for No’s, use mirroring and we language to build rapport, and name a high anchor (study: anchoring wheel 10… | ||
| Fighting Burnout Incorporating Rest Into the Software Development Workflow | Nick Cox | 29m |
Claims that sleep, meditation and exercise boost productivity more than editor tweaks, with specifics: vim and Sublime tweaks, Zeus and Spork environment… | ||
| Embedding Ruby into your Daily Life | Andrew Nordman | 34m |
Claim: Ruby can run on microcontrollers by using Mruby runs in ~80KB RAM and cross‑compiling Ruby into bytecode that gets linked into C for upload. Tools… | ||
| Real-Time Rails | Brian Cardarella | 36m |
Claim: Rails 4.0 can serve real‑time apps without an external Node process by using Rails 4.0 Live Streaming API plus rack hijack. Implementation uses Puma… | ||
| Handcrafting Community | Carina C. Zona | 36m |
A single organizer launches a women-only hack night that becomes a weekly Rails study group with 80 people showing up and spawns parallel Python meetups… | ||
| Particular Particulars about "Zero Downtime Deploys" | David Czarnecki | 29m |
Claim: fully automated zero downtime deploys run for months with no scheduled outages, surviving Ruby upgrades and dozens of commits. How: Unicorn + NGINX +… | ||
| get /better | Mark Bates | 27m |
Five concrete habits map to measurable improvement: always be coding by building clones (Twitter/Facebook), contributing fixes to gems, or deleting a library’s… | ||
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