LA RubyConf 2013
2013-02-21..2013-02-23
Burbank, United States
[LA RubyConf 2010, LA RubyConf 2012, LA RubyConf 2013, LA RubyConf 2014, LA RubyConf 2015]
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, full stack developers, backend engineers, frontend developers, QA engineers, engineering managers
topics
Vim and Tmux productivity; building recommendation engines; testing framework practices; JRuby adoption and benefits; Backbone.js with Rails integration; Jasmine front-end testing; Python for Ruby programmers; scalable REST API design; refactoring fat models; design patterns for Rails
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Impressive Ruby Productivity with Vim and Tmux | Chris Hunt | 25m |
Claim of 800% productivity gain anchors a live demo using vim and tmux where sessions are scripted to start Rails servers and Vim panes, tests run inside Vim… | ||
| People who liked this talk also liked ... Building Recommendation... | Ryan Weald | 33m |
Shows a concrete recipe: build a memory‑based user‑item matrix, compute Pearson correlation coefficient (example implemented in ~40 lines of Ruby) and pick… | ||
| It's not your test framework, it's you | Robbie Clutton, Matt Parker | 36m |
Claim: brittle suites come from misuse not Cucumber or RSpec. Demonstrated with a Twitter example that repeatedly embeds UI steps like click button tweet and… | ||
| Why I like JRuby (and you should too) | Fiona Tay | 25m |
Advocates switching to JRUby for concrete gains not hype JRUby gives direct access to Java libraries so the Stanford NLP parser and JavaMail run as Ruby code… | ||
| Backbone.js, Jasmine and Rails: The Lust Story | Austin Fonacier | 29m |
A Rails app called Blog Mate moves its front end to backbone and adds jasmine tests, cutting a lot of custom JS and duplicated save/update/destroy code. The… | ||
| Python for Ruby Programmers | Mike Leone | 35m |
States that Ruby and Python are more similar than different, demonstrating with side-by-side person class code, map/filter examples and exception traces… | ||
| Where is my scalable API? | Juan Pablo Genovese | 39m |
Rails JSON API migrates heavy endpoints to Goliath non-blocking IO server, keeps models and controllers but swaps blocking drivers for EventMachine-friendly… | ||
| Refactoring Fat Models with Patterns | Bryan Helmkamp | 38m |
Video gives concrete refactor recipes: extract value objects, service objects, form/query/view/policy/decorator objects from bloated ActiveRecord classes. It… | ||
| Keynote | Ron Evans | 59m |
Introduces the artoo.io artoo.io micro-framework for robotics, claims concurrent Ruby via celluloid and celluloid-io lets JRuby/Rubinius run adapters and… | ||
| It's not your test framework, it's you | Robbie Clutton, Matt Parker | 36m |
Claim: brittle slow suites come from misuse not from Cucumber or Capybara. Root causes are cargo‑culted BDD, scattered UI details, sleeps and duplicated login… | ||
| Why I like JRuby (and you should too) | Fiona Tay | 25m |
Argues that JRUby unlocks Java libraries (examples: calling Stanford NLP and JavaMail directly), that a real project—an open‑source JRuby on Rails app with… | ||
| Backbone.js, Jasmine and Rails: The Lust Story | Austin Fonacier | 29m |
A Rails app called Blog Mate uses Rails + Backbone models + CoffeeScript and Smarty templates; implementing Backbone cuts custom save/update/destroy code… | ||
| Python for Ruby Programmers | Mike Leone | 35m |
Claims that Python and Ruby are more similar than different, with the presenter listing 13 similarities and 13 differences and surveying 5 problem domains… | ||
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