LA RubyConf 2015
2015-10-10
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, technical leads, devops engineers, creative coders, developer educators
topics
Ruby DSL patterns; ActiveRecord encapsulation; service object extraction; vlad ssh rsync deployment; nokogiri for malformed HTML; turtle graphics and L-systems; phyllotaxis simulations; MagLev object persistence; transactional commit abort; log parsing with tail grep sed; automated test runner selection; mechanize playback load testing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby | Adam Cuppy | 48m |
Claim: Shakespeare embeds intention into language the way a DSL embeds domain rules — he coins 1700 new words, uses almost no stage directions and violates… | ||
| Mind of a Hacker | Ryan Davis | 48m |
Builds concrete tools and reports outcomes: creates nokogiri because hpricot fails on malformed HTML, ships a graphics gem so trig and quadrant math just work… | ||
| Botany with Bytes | Lito Nicolai | 22m |
Ruby code uses the graphics gem (Ryan Davis) and short L‑system engines to build plant models that actually render: algae colonies, juniper branches, artichoke… | ||
| Hacking Development Culture: Treating Developers As People | Austin Fonacier | 29m |
Company upgrades a Rails 2 monolith while still shipping features, running against 12 billion records and 18 million visits a month. A 184‑line SEO controller… | ||
| Stupid Ideas For Many Computers | Aja Hammerly | 30m |
Ruby scripts replay a Rails log with mechanize playback across 30–50 processes on VMs to do naive load testing, uses Bash to spawn infinite loops, and admits… | ||
| Data Migrations with MagLev | JohnnyT | 33m |
MagLev runs on GemStone/S and claims to persist plain Ruby objects including procs and lambdas via a shared page cache that attaches VMs on login. The runtime… | ||
| Learn Enough Tutorial Writing to Be Dangerous | Michael Hartl | 35m |
Concrete, actionable rules for writing long‑form tutorials: use a process of successive refinement (free association, content throwdown, main exposition… | ||
| Practical Unix for Ruby & Rails | Ylan Segal | 39m |
Shows concrete shell recipes: use tail -f | grep to filter Rails logs, sed to normalize numeric IDs, then sort uniq -c to get hit counts (example yields token… | ||
| Build to Last... | Mike Moore | 44m |
Claim: a Rails app can avoid a five‑year rewrite by modeling intent, drawing explicit domain boundaries, and testing the boundaries rather than internals. Uses… | ||
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