Rails Pacific 2016
who it's for
Rails developers, devops engineers, QA engineers, engineering managers, startup founders, coding school instructors
topics
RSpec design patterns; golden-master snapshot testing; testing Rails 5 apps; containerized Ruby 2.3 deployments; Docker in production workflows; Fluentd -> Elasticsearch logging pipelines; Sidekiq background jobs and retries; ActionCable with Rails API and React; immutable infrastructure and blue-green deploys; continuous deployment for MVPs; internationalisation with feature toggles
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Computer Science Education for the Next Generation | Godfrey Chan | 53m |
Argues that the real goal is teaching a meta-skill of on-demand learning — the ability to form and refine mental models and to pop up and down the abstraction… | ||
| When Making Money Becomes a Headache... | Sebastian Sogamoso | 34m |
Covers real failures: assuming HTTP status code ≠ success for async settlements, relying on unchecked webhooks, missing idempotent charges that double-bill… | ||
| Workshop / Taming Chaotic Specs: RSpec Design Patterns | Adam Cuppy | 42m |
Claim: large, messy specs get tamed by concrete refactor patterns and small tooling choices. Workshop refactors a real 9,000+ line spec down using Minimum… | ||
| Server Infrastructure for Rails in 2016 | Richard Lee | 43m |
Claims that Docker runs in production with few problems and a six‑month rollout; apps become containerized Ruby 2.3 images with one process per container, env… | ||
| Continuous Learning, Teaching and the Art of Improving Yourself | Luis Ferreira | 41m |
Defines "perceived productivity" as ending the day happy and confident, then gives concrete habits that deliver it: plan daily tasks with ABC analysis or the… | ||
| What if Shakespeare Wrote Ruby? | Adam Cuppy | 34m |
Argues that Shakespeare creates meaning without stage directions, noting 1700 new word forms across 800,000 words and effectively no documentation, then maps… | ||
| Robot on Rails | Max Hawkins | 31m |
A presentation-generator bot is trained on 14,000 SlideShare presentations (about 100 megabytes of slide text) using an lstm recurrent neural net / torch RNN… | ||
| Successful Speedy MVP Website Development | Xdite | 27m |
Claim states a workflow that wins hackathons by narrowing scope, practicing the pitch, and automating deploys. Uses Ruby on Rails, continuous deployment and a… | ||
| ActionCable, Rails API and React - Modern Single Page Apps | Vipul A M | 47m |
Rails 5 claims to pair a slimmed Rails API backend with ActionCable WebSockets to power modular SPAs; the demo shows a Rails API app (API-only controllers… | ||
| Large-Scaled Deploy Over 100 Servers in 3 Minutes | Hiroshi Shibata | 45m |
Company runs Ruby on Rails minne with ~200 servers across 2 data centers and designs an image‑based pipeline to turn mutable infrastructure into immutable… | ||
| Make Money and Enjoy Freedom Creating a Software Business | Ryan MacInnes | 40m |
History and numbers matter: juicer.io starts as a $0 risk rebuild after Tint hikes from $10 to $250 plus a paid Stripe checkout and a WordPress plugin… | ||
| Going Global on Rails: Lessons Learned Taking Japan's Biggest Recipe Site International | Miles Woodroffe | 17m |
Cookpad runs on Rails and expands from Japan to 30 regions and 8 languages in 12 months, moving from 50M monthly uniques in Japan to ~25M worldwide by… | ||
| Secrets of Testing Rails 5 Apps | Prathamesh Sonpatki | 37m |
Secrets of Testing Rails 5 Apps by Prathamesh Sonpatki Testing Rails 5 apps has become better experience out of the box. Rails has also become smarter by… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Rick Liu, Charlie Hua, Bruce Li, Juanito Fatas, Adam Cuppy | 32m |
Five-minute demos focus on concrete results: a comparison of helper/decorator approaches that ships lalala presenter gem to avoid activerecord magic; a health… | ||
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