Ruby on Ice 2019
as the organisers put it
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Alps at lake Tegernsee, we welcome Rubyists from all over the world to gather, have fun in the snow and talk about the future of Ruby, Rails and related technologies in a single-track community-run conference.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Ice 2019 | 04m | |
Conference promo footage and attendee testimonials that sell a community retreat rather than technical material. Emphasis stays on a single-track community-run… | ||
| The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub | Eileen M Uchitelle | 42m |
GitHub documents how it pays down a decade of technical debt to move from Rails 3.2 forks onto modern Rails: an initial six‑month, four‑engineer push for 3.x… | ||
| Breaking the Chains of Oppressive Software | Kinsey Ann Durham | 28m |
Shows how specific systems skew results: Google Word2Vec embeds 3 million Google News words into 300‑dim vectors that reproduce gendered analogies; Google… | ||
| Hardware Hacking with Your Rails App | Ramón Huidobro | 28m |
Project shows a Rails web app driving cheap terminals: an all‑in‑one PC boots Ubuntu into Chromium kiosk mode or an Electron wrapper that injects a header… | ||
| Teach by Learning; Lead by Teaching | Betsy Haibel | 45m |
Argues that dialogic teaching and Paulo Freire’s methods work for developer education, citing that Freire’s techniques teach adults to read in 45 days and… | ||
| Web Components: Designing Frontends for Reusability | Joy Heron | 43m |
Repeatedly rebuilding the same filterable sortable table across four projects drives creation of a reusable "Bella" component that starts with HTML-first… | ||
| Improving Development Quality and Speed with Agile Testing | Anastasia Chicu | 24m |
Software projects fail 68% of the time and low performers spend 31% of time on rework so upgrade testing with concrete practices: use BI and customer support… | ||
| Rails Against the Machine | Brittany Martin | 27m |
Shows a concrete system that identifies and quietly downgrades abusive customers: a Rails reseller model backed by a shared CRM, cached 30‑minute session… | ||
| Do You Need That Validation? Let Me Call You Back About It | Tobias Pfeiffer | 44m |
Shows that before_validation callbacks cause hidden bugs (example: auto-setting event datetimes that broke tests) and huge test/setup cost (one case forces… | ||
| Parallel and Thread-Safe Ruby at High-Speed with TruffleRuby | Benoit Daloze | 43m |
TruffleRuby running on Graal/SubstrateVM uses partial evaluation and inlining to compile Ruby core and JIT across language boundaries, producing native code… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Philip Tessenow, Olli Prater, Andy Soiron, Amr Abdelwahab | 43m |
Small projects and big fixes: a Berlin chapter reports rebrand to Code Curious after 1,500 students, 40 workshops and 300 volunteer coaches. One demo streams… | ||
| Beauty and the Beast: your application and distributed systems | Emily Stolfo | 48m |
Shows concrete patterns for safe retries: use idempotent operations (MongoDB unique-pending-set or Elasticsearch versioned updates) and prefer client-scoped… | ||
| Making CocoaPods Fast with Modern Ruby Tooling | Samuel Giddins | 51m |
Claims a half reduction in pod install time and a 90 second savings by changing under 200 lines of code, validated on large apps that hit ~395 pods. Uses… | ||
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