Ten Years of Ruby Conferences: A Dramatic Revue
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A reprise of ten years of Ruby conferences names Lucky Stiff Sandi Metz Matz DHH Tenderlove Jim Weirich and highlights creations by Brenna Flood while listing concrete claims and experiments: proposals for keyword arguments and method hooks toward Ruby 2 with RCRs open until March 2004 a promised VM called write still vaporware a claim that ActiveRecord was five times slower leading to prepared statement caching in Rails 3.1 plus a live demo using the Argus library to control drones with two hardware runs that mostly work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Ruby’s early challenges
- 2:57Ruby 2.0 changes and input
- 7:03Testing with RSpec and BDD
- 9:24Performance tuning Ruby code
- 12:57Life lessons and responsibility
- 18:42Future of Ruby and choices
- 19:15Flying robots in Ruby demo
- 21:59Conference weirdness impact
- 23:13Honoring Jim Hyrick
