Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025
2025-10-06..2025-10-07
Boulder, United States
[Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2014, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2015, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024, Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025]
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, QA and test engineers
topics
Sidekiq queue autoscaling; Redis single-thread tuning; RailS monolith architecture; React integration in Rails; mutant gem mutation testing; D3JS Visual Rails mapping; ROM and dry-rb persistence; PostGIS geometry queries; LLM-backed Ruby tooling; Rails upgrade process nontechnical; operating Rails after deploy
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Spike, Bekki | 13m |
Opening remarks lay out concrete logistics: Wi-Fi by Typesense with no space in the password, sponsors Cisco Gusto Caribou hiring now, and passports from AVO… | ||
| We Who Remember Magic | Brandon Weaver | 37m |
Claims that AI automates huge chunks of work: six months of test writing across 30 teams in five organizations gets done in about a week, with prompts… | ||
| Learning Empathy From Pokémon Blue | Tess Griffin | 26m |
Reverse engineers recreate the exploit from Pokémon Blue by translating assembly into readable Ruby and show it actually works: a load-order bug plus reused… | ||
| Lessons from 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub | Joel Hawksley | 31m |
Five years of work on GitHub’s Rails monolith (5,000 models, 4,000 routes, 2,100 controllers, ~650 monthly contributors) yields concrete takeaways: adoption of… | ||
| Sidekiq at Gusto: The Parts Where People’s Jaw Drops | Phillip Campbell | 35m |
Gusto runs Sidekiq across Rails apps with real patterns: queue SLAs, autoscaling, Redis tuning, job repair, and shared gems, and the talk names concrete… | ||
| Ruby on Rails is a Game Engine | Jonathan Woodard | 35m |
A turn‑based MMO built with Ruby on Rails called Galactic Impact runs game turns every three hours using Sidekiq batching to parallelize resolution and handle… | ||
| The Mutation Game: Cracking the Enigma of Mutation Testing | Tyler Lemburg | 27m |
Uses the mutant gem (backed by the parser gem) to mutate Ruby ASTs, run RSpec against each variant, and report concrete failures; the live Benedict versus… | ||
| Reading Rails: A Visual Walkthrough of the... | Ratnadeep Deshmane | 32m |
Claims a usable map of Rails internals: an open source Visual Rails that parses the local repo with a Ruby script into a JSON blob and renders it with D3JS… | ||
| We Were Voyagers. We Can Voyage Again! | Scott Werner | 20m |
Argues that Ruby’s metaprogramming already looks like Ruby metaprogramming as prompt engineering, shows a prompt‑based web framework called Monkeys Paw that… | ||
| Opening Remarks, Tuesday | Bekki, Spike | 07m |
Quick housekeeping: reminder of the code of conduct and where to report problems, t‑shirts and stickers at the table, luggage held by volunteers, and talks… | ||
| Learning How to Learn: A Framework for Lifelong Rubyists | Jeff Cohen | 29m |
Practical framework claiming to teach a repeatable process for learning complex software, grounded in years of teaching and mentoring and not neuroscience… | ||
| Slicing and Dicing Through Complexity with Hanami | Sean Collins | 39m |
Hanami claims a feature-first modular monolith: slices are mountable and even independently deployable, letting billing live isolated from auth while… | ||
| Learning to Code Without a Map: Mentorship and Entry... | Erin Pintozzi | 32m |
Bootcamps are fading: low enrollment forces many programs to close and Turing School shut in June; typical bootcamp runs 3–7 months and costs <$25k versus a… | ||
| Thoughtful AI for the Rubyist | Christine Seeman | 30m |
Gives concrete, practical guidance: an internal survey finds 60% reported hallucinations, AI excels at CRUD and RSpec scaffolding and generating descriptive… | ||
| Upgrading Rails: The Non-Technical Parts | Max VelDink | 28m |
Upgrading Rails focuses on organizational moves: claim that 50% of the battle is ownership, not code; audit gems and produce an unordered checklist, then set… | ||
| Operating Rails: what about after you deploy? | Andre Arko | 32m |
A checklist of concrete practices and failures: set up daily DB backups to GitHub Action artifacts (90 days) and test restores, push all deploys from CI/CD not… | ||
| Lightning talks | Ted Tash | 44m |
Forty-two rapid demos and claims land fast: an AI generates a polymorphic comments feature in three prompts and exposes dependency headaches; a version-control… | ||
| Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer? | Drew Bragg | 52m |
A live Ruby quiz that runs real snippets and reports exact outputs and failures, not high-level platitudes: it shows real IRB-running snippets including use of… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Spike, Bekki | 07m |
Conference wrap gives concrete logistics and outcomes: conference started three years ago and runs because a local Slack tech friends group supplies speakers… | ||
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