Friendly.rb 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building for web and mobile in 2024 | Hana Harencarova | 22m |
Built a Rails-backed parent-school app called Flamingo as a hybrid plus PWA: three repositories (Rails plus iOS and Android shells) with business logic kept in… | ||
| Make a Massively Multiplayer Ruby Game with Dragon Ruby | Julian Cheal | 33m |
Shows how to build real games with Dragon Ruby (SDL under the hood), live-reloads code, and hits 60 fps. Demonstrates a working Flappy Dragon prototype — 355… | ||
| A day in the life of 2,000 developers | James Carr | 43m |
Stripe runs a ~25M-line Ruby monorepo with 1.5 million tests that would take two months on one machine, so CI uses file-access tracing (LD_PRELOAD now, moving… | ||
| Stop overthinking and go create things | Olly Headey | 27m |
Argues that shipping small side projects improves wellbeing and career prospects, citing a UCL/BBC study and claiming creativity makes developers more… | ||
| SQLite on Rails: Everything you need to know | Stephen Margheim | 45m |
Claims that SQLite can run production Rails apps once tuned, and a one‑liner script now configures it: it installs active_record_enhance_sqlite3_adapter to… | ||
| Web Accessibility by 2025 | Victor Motogna | 06m |
European law forces web and mobile products sold in the EU to meet WCAG 2.1 by June 28, 2025, with fines for noncompliance. Required fixes described are… | ||
| Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 | Rosa Gutiérrez | 38m |
Explains why UTF‑8 is a 1–4 byte variable‑length encoding and how Ruby stores bytes plus an encoding label, showing concrete APIs: force_encoding (changes… | ||
| Ruby at Scale | Hana Harencarova, Celso Fernandez, Cristian Planas, Alexandru Călinoiu | 01h 03m |
Ruby powers a 40M‑line monolith with 500+ engineers and ships features continuously (about 20 deploys a day), while an API example serves 70,000… | ||
| The 8-Second Nightmare: How One Change Reduced Latency by 99.9% | Nabeelah Yousuph | 31m |
A slow aggregation on millions of shift rows proves to be an indexing problem spotted in DataDog logs and inspected with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and SHOW INDEXES the… | ||
| Fibonacci Funhouse | Kyle d'Oliveira | 30m |
Starts with the exponential recursive method (gets useless near n≈30) then implements Binet with BigDecimal (works to ~350 before float/precision slows it)… | ||
| Rails frontend: 10 commandments and 7 deadly sins in 2025 | Yaroslav Shmarov | 25m |
Claims that Rails 7 front end now delivers 80–90% of React features using Stimulus and Hotwire and shows concrete choices: prefer Tailwind, use ESBuild when… | ||
| SaaS Lessons Learned | Tom Rossi | 34m |
Higher Pixels runs five products, focuses on two: Buzzsprout (podcast hosting, launched 2009) and Streamare (medical); teams are six Rails devs on Buzzrout… | ||
| Ruby in the Billions | Celso Fernandez | 30m |
ClickFunnels moves a reindexing job that used to hit ElasticSearch for billions of rows into a Kafka pipeline written in Ruby so batch reads from Aurora MySQL… | ||
| OWASP Top 10 for Rails developers | Greg Molnar | 16m |
Covers OWASP Top 10 with concrete Rails fixes: explains server‑side request forgery examples (external and internal), recommends validating user URLs, network… | ||
| Embracing Uncertainty: Thriving in Complexity and Legacy Code | Benjamin Wood | 24m |
Upgrading seven coupled Rails apps from Rails 2 to Rails 3 reveals real constraints: a single shared database, per-app read‑through caches using the cash_money… | ||
| Friendly.rb 2024 - Bucharest September 18 & 19 | 02m | |
Conference report from Friendly.rb 2024 claims a lively, growing Ruby community with 130+ attendees from across Europe and beyond and a program that balances… | ||
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