Helvetic Ruby 2024
as the organisers put it
A single-day, single-track conference for Ruby enthusiasts and professionals from Switzerland and abroad.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Helvetic Ruby 2024 | 01m | |
Recording captures stage music and a repeated sung chorus with fragments like "come to me my girl" and ambient crowd noise, not a technical talk. Video… | ||
| Revisiting the Hotwire Landscape after Turbo 8 | Marco Roth | 29m |
Turbo 8 brings Turbo 8 morphing and server-driven page refreshes plus model broadcasts, shifting overlap with StimulusReflex and prompting a recommendation to… | ||
| The Boring Bits Bite Back | Katie Miller | 21m |
A Rails pet‑care app called ptrax Rails app grows from simple owner/caretaker checks to dozens of ad‑hoc role conditionals, a policy refactor that briefly… | ||
| Lessons learned from running Rails apps on-premise | Andy Pfister | 26m |
Runs Rails on both Ubuntu and Windows, supports PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MySQL support dropped), uses ActiveRecord adapters and per-database gem… | ||
| Ask your logs | Youssef Boulkaid | 28m |
Shows that turning Rails logs into structured JSON lets teams query them as data: use lograge or semantic_logger with a JSON formatter, enrich lines with… | ||
| The Very Hungry Transaction | Daniel Colson | 32m |
A small order save grows into recurring deadlocks, lock timeouts and exhausted DB connections after inventory updates, background jobs enqueued before commit… | ||
| How to use Arel? Wrong answers only! | Dávid Halász | 05m |
Shows using ActiveRecord and Arel visitor to traverse ASTs, collect table aliases, and rewrite them so merged scopes produce a single join instead of slow… | ||
| Avoiding Sneaky Testing Antipatterns | Sarah Lima | 06m |
Practical rules for tightening Rails test suites: prefer positive assertions like expect(user.save).to be true instead of negations, force a failing test by… | ||
| Phantastic Phlex | Roland Studer | 05m |
Demonstrates Flex, a Ruby-first HTML renderer that defines a renderable class inheriting from Flex::HTML::Base with Ruby methods for every tag and keyword args… | ||
| 200k users in 3 years: How to do developer marketing | Jenda Tovarys | 06m |
Company grows zero to 150,000 devs in three years, raises $2M and stays profitable with a three‑person team. Early strategy centers on get 10 customers via… | ||
| On a mission for equality and diversity in tech | Marion Schleifer | 05m |
Nonprofit Code Blossom trains women in developing countries to become web developers using an open-source market-driven curriculum, matches mentors for every… | ||
| How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-End | Hilary Stohs-Krause | 26m |
Back-end engineers can improve accessibility with concrete practices: use avoid abbreviations and pronounceable names, run linters like RuboCop to enforce… | ||
| The Power of Crystal: A language for humans and computers | Johannes Müller | 33m |
Crystal compiles to native code via LLVM-backed native code and uses type inference so most annotations aren’t needed while the compiler still catches… | ||
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