LoneStarRuby Conf 2013
2013-08-11..2013-08-13
Austin, United States
[LoneStarRuby Conf 2011, LoneStarRuby Conf 2013, LoneStarRuby Conf 2015]
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, backend engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, qa engineers, open source contributors
topics
Elixir and Erlang interoperability; Cloud Foundry adoption; asynchronous workers with Resque; Neural networks with RubyFANN; Ember.js on Rails integration; functional reactive programming; refactoring with APIs and messages; Ruby internals and mechanics; TDD and test repair; big data architectures; command line productivity
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby 2 Jeopardy | James Edward Gray II | 32m |
A live Jeopardy‑style game called Peril quizzes everything that ships with Ruby 2.0: categories include syntax, core methods, the standard library and Rails… | ||
| Give Cloud Foundry to your Company | Nic Williams | 33m |
Claim: Cloud Foundry gives a Heroku‑like PaaS that runs on AWS or OpenStack, uses Warden containers today (not Docker), and can be provisioned and upgraded… | ||
| Cloud Panel | Greg Knox | 41m |
Panelists name concrete tradeoffs: Heroku runs on Amazon as a multi-tenant platform supporting 2.5–3 million apps, Engine Yard currently runs on EC2 and adds… | ||
| Big Data and the Coming Golden Age of Humanity | Byron Reese | 36m |
Claims that cheap sensors plus near-zero costs of storing moving and computing data create a global, queryable record of cause and effect. Describes building… | ||
| Elixir: Power of Erlang, Joy of Ruby | Dave Thomas | 39m |
Claims Elixir puts a Rubylike syntax on the Erlang VM and gives practical concurrency: demos run in the IEx shell, use pattern matching and recursion to… | ||
| Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud | Kyle Rames | 34m |
Code-first demo uses the fog gem against Rackspace: provisions two VMs (compute_v2), creates a load balancer with public IPv4/IPv6 and adds a DNS A record. Fog… | ||
| The Mechanics of Ruby | Adam Keys | 42m |
Examines MRI internals and makes concrete claims: MRI’s C heritage explains type checks and the global lock, JRuby and Rubinius aim for faster VMs, and many… | ||
| Refactoring Legacy Apps with APIs and Messages | Corey Ehmke | 32m |
A concrete plan: split the Rails monolith into small apps wired by internal HTTP APIs and an async message bus, move persistence and auth into separate… | ||
| Building a Culture of Quality | Bryan Helmkamp | 32m |
Claims a practical path: assemble qualitative feedback (one‑on‑ones, retrospectives, anonymous surveys) and quantitative metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect… | ||
| Ember on Rails: #REALTALK | Brandon Hays | 31m |
A developer goes from zero to shipping a UX‑centric app that pulls shared links from Twitter and becomes an animated‑gif browser, using Rails as the API and… | ||
| Placing Things into Other Things | Charles Lowell | 34m |
Claims a Rack‑style middleware model for CLIs that wraps and contextualizes streams so libraries never write direct to STDOUT, shows streaming templates that… | ||
| Functional Reactive Programming with Frappuccino | Steve Klabnik | 48m |
A small Ruby library brings functional reactive programming to desktop UIs: the frappuccino gem wires button events into streams, uses map and inject to… | ||
| Hacking Passion | Katrina Owens | 24m |
Argues that talent is skill not a genetic boolean and lays out a concrete practice system: drills, simulations, case studies, direct practice, imitation with… | ||
| Getting called up to the Majors | Reid Gillette | 35m |
Shifts from solo Heroku apps to a giant Rails app with a complicated data model and a CI test suite that took an hour, learns to survive and contribute in a… | ||
| Diary of a Mad Rails Engineer | Akira Matsuda | 42m |
Claim: Rails::Engine is not just a concept but a packaged gem that actually contains models, controllers and views and can be mounted into an app. Using Rails… | ||
| TDD in Tatters | Scott Bellware | 42m |
Argues that TDD has become tool-focused and urges a return to design-first practice, claiming every test is an additional coupling and automation can reduce… | ||
| The End of Fun | Sarah Mei | 30m |
Argues that creativity and play measurably improve software and shows concrete habits that produce that: red‑green‑refactor as a deliberate closed↔open cycle… | ||
| Ruby Rogues Panel | david chuck katrina | 53m |
Panel announces moving the list to Discourse and a plan with Pearson to write a Ruby version of Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns; they compare concrete… | ||
| If It Bleeds, It Leads | Evan Light | 28m |
Claim: Rails has drifted toward complexity, trading simplicity for layers of indirection. Evidence: seven to ten competing authentication gems, multiple… | ||
| Why You Should Love The Command Line | Alan Skorkin | 38m |
Argues that Rake should be replaced by real command‑line apps and demonstrates a homegrown framework called escort while comparing it to rake and thor. Shows… | ||
| Neural Networks with RubyFANN | Ethan Garofolo | 28m |
Uses the fann C library via the RubyFANN gem to build a spam detector and tic-tac-toe agents. Spam model ingests 82 inputs from csmining.org and trains to… | ||
| Open Source Protips from the Trenches | Matt Rogers | 15m |
A practical set of concrete rules and examples: a 2003 KDE patch and an angry reply that drives a contributor away; an 80/20 estimate for effort distribution… | ||
| I Made a Slow Thing Fast | Ben Hamill | 33m |
Identifies the real bottleneck with top, iostat and perftools.rb (pprof shows ~72% time in io_select), then applies three cheap fixes — reverse processing… | ||
| Fluent Refactoring | Sam Livingston-Gray | 35m |
Refactors a gnarly 50‑line controller action pulled from an 800‑line Rails controller into a call object, a replace method with method object move that uses a… | ||
| Asynchronous Workers to the Resque | Dave Kapp | 39m |
Shows three concrete patterns: isolating slow ops, pipelining, and periodic maintenance. Uses Resque with a Redis backend and demonstrates worker classes… | ||
| Programming Diversity | Ashe Dryden | 42m |
Argues that diversity improves revenue and problem solving and gives concrete numbers and fixes rather than platitudes. Cites 60% of women leave within 10… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Avdi Grimm | 32m |
Builds a null object toolkit for Ruby that auto-generates classes, supports impersonation (inherit from arbitrary base classes), and adds deferred operations… | ||
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