LA RubyConf 2014
2014-02-06..2014-02-08
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, engineering managers, QA engineers, frontend developers, open source contributors, game developers, community organisers
topics
CRuby source debugging; C extensions for Ruby; RSpec-driven SOLID design; pair programming practices; lineman and Grunt builds; rails-lineman integration; service-oriented architecture migration; command-line option refactoring; Gosu game development; Go for concurrency and tooling; measuring CI and test speedups; addressing sexism in tech
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| SOLID principles through tests | Sebastian Sogamoso | 27m |
Argues that concrete examples show tests driving SOLID: using TDD with Ruby RSpec and wishful testing leads to extracting responsibilities into classes like… | ||
| I Have Pair Programmed for 27,000 Hours: Ask Me Anything! | Joe Moore | 32m |
Claim of 27,000 hours of continuous pair programming anchors a laundry list of concrete practices: use Skype and Google Hangouts with screen sharing for remote… | ||
| Introduction to CRuby source code | Andy Pliszka | 29m |
Shows how to build CRuby from source (git checkout, ./configure, -O0 -g then make && make check with ~13,000 tests), how to point PATH/GEM_HOME, and how to… | ||
| As easy as Rails | Justin Searls | 32m |
Claim: Rails is the wrong default for fat‑client JavaScript single‑page apps and the proof is concrete. Demonstrations include using lineman plus Node and… | ||
| Refactoring Your Team For Fun and Profit | Aaron Harpole | 28m |
Company growth to almost 200 engineers forces concrete changes: move from a monolithic Dashboard (built on MongoDB) to service-oriented architecture… | ||
| Write Small Things | Mark Menard | 29m |
Builds a real Ruby command-line option library from zero to working tests and shows the refactor steps that get it maintainable: starts with an instance_eval… | ||
| Addressing sexism to build a better Ruby community | Hannah Howard, Evan Dorn | 38m |
Reports show 20 percent of software engineers are women and only 1.5 percent of open source contributions come from women, and programs like RailsBridge and… | ||
| Writing Games with Ruby | Mike Moore | 51m |
Claim is concrete: games are built with the Gosu library and you leave with a working game. The demo shows a platformer and smaller kids’ apps implemented in… | ||
| Go for the Rubyist | Mark Bates | 36m |
Argues that Go is a compiled, statically typed, garbage‑collected language that produces a single cross‑platform binary and solves concurrency with goroutines… | ||
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