GoGaRuCo 2010
2010-09-17..2010-09-18
San Francisco, United States
GoGaRuCo ·
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hidden Gems of Ruby 1.9 | Aaron Patterson | 31m |
Title promises gems but delivers specifics: Ruby 1.9 / Ruby 192 features in the standard library rather than third‑party gems, concrete examples and caveats… | ||
| Being Your Best Asset and Not Your Worst Enemy | Evan Phoenix | 34m |
Four concrete rules guide project decisions: contributors are a privilege, no is a perfectly acceptable answer, assign responsibility, and communicate… | ||
| Real World Ruby Testing | Rein Henrichs | 31m |
A practical report on Ruby testing claims a large Puppet Labs suite grows to almost 9,000 tests (likely over 10,000 with all platforms) and is tuned so it runs… | ||
| Ruby APIs for NoSQL | Sarah Mei | 26m |
Ruby examples show Rails apps using Redis Riak CouchDB MongoDB Cassandra plus S3 and Solr via Sunspot, building a cephalopod social network with a denormalized… | ||
| Data-Driven Government and the Ruby Developer | Eric Mill | 36m |
Lists of machine-readable feeds and city/state/federal catalogs exist and people are already building real services from them: a contest yields 47 apps for a… | ||
| Extending Rails 3 | Yehuda Katz | 29m |
Rails 3.1 makes concrete changes: engine migrations get a copy-and-timestamp workflow so gems ship migrations safely; the static middleware uses a… | ||
| Bryan's ActieModel Extravaganza | Bryan Liles | 22m |
ActiveModel is both an external API contract (he names about five required behaviors) and a set of mixin helpers that give you naming, callbacks, validations… | ||
| Keynote: (Parenthetically Speaking) | Jim Weirich | 58m |
Covers a concrete tour of SICP (the SICP wizard book), showing working Ruby code that builds functions at runtime (a make_find_root factory that yields… | ||
| Test-First Teaching | Sarah Allen | 29m |
Claims that writing tests before code teaches programming effectively, with concrete materials: Ruby Koans, RailsBridge Workshops, Wolfram Arnold's BFT… | ||
| Polyglot: When Ruby isn't enough or even sane | Blake Mizerany | 32m |
Argues that Ruby is great for productivity but not a one‑size‑fits‑all: systems work, POSIX calls and IO need different tools. Compares practical scores — Ruby… | ||
| Rails is Obsolete (But So's Everything Else) | Avi Bryant | 36m |
Argues Rails’s 2004 assumptions fail for modern single‑page apps that deliver JSON and heavy client logic; cites examples like new Twitter, Gmail, Etherpad and… | ||
| Eschew Obfuscation and Omit Needless Words: Writing Clear Acceptance Tests | Elisabeth Hendrickson | 31m |
The claim is concrete: edit verbose Cucumber scenarios into intention‑revealing tests that state the actual assertion and hide incidental UI steps. Concrete… | ||
| Intelligent Ruby: Getting Started with Machine Learning | Ilya Grigorik | 35m |
Claims that more data often beats fancier code, demonstrated by tossing orders of magnitude more text at off‑the‑shelf NLP algorithms and improving accuracy… | ||
| The Revolution will not be Tweeted | Rich Kilmer | 33m |
Claim: the Rails revolution moves underground into enterprises, not Twitter. Evidence: consultancies report rising enterprise projects, USDA and banks porting… | ||
| The Shell Hater's Handbook | Ryan Tomayko | 33m |
Claims that the shell is a special‑purpose language where the fundamental abstraction is the command not traditional expressions, shows that test is an… | ||
| Workflow | Ryan Davis | 33m |
Workflows vary by keystroke and setup not topic: one setup runs Emacs full screen with a left code pane and right autotest.el output so tests rerun instantly… | ||
| Arel: The Ruby Relational Algebra Library | Bryan Helmkamp | 32m |
Arel is the Ruby relational algebra engine that replaces fragile SQL string concatenation with an object model for SQL queries and is the foundation inside… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 01h 06m | |
A rapid dozen of five‑minute demos shows concrete claims, tools and results: CPU‑concurrency benchmarks for Reinius with MRI comparison, a TicketMaster… | ||
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