RubyConf Portugal 2015
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | 04m | |
Welcome and conference kickoff that mixes playful Tolkien and clockwork references with concrete points: attendees convene for a few intense days in a historic… | ||
| The Soul of Software | Avdi Grimm | 57m |
Argues that code actively constructs social reality, contrasting formalist hierarchies with a hermeneutic, socially negotiated view; cites the stop‑clock… | ||
| Best Of | 04m | |
A short montage of music and crowd noise with garbled captions, not a technical talk or demo. The recording contains repeated musical interludes and… | ||
| Industrial Rails | Christian Weyer | 34m |
Rails powers custom manufacturing apps that integrate barcode scanners, volumetric scanners and legacy systems sending CSV/FTP/SOAP/TCP into a single monolith… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | Davy Stevenson | 34m |
Claim: human number sense stops around four so naming huge quantities doesn’t make them comprehensible. Uses historical counting, optics and modern… | ||
| Evolution Of Keyword Parameters | Koichi Sasada | 29m |
History and concrete changes to keyword parameters in Ruby from the hash-based hack to a real calling convention are explained, with an MRI C implementation… | ||
| Unreliable Narrators And Legacy Code | Pedro Moreira | 27m |
A seven‑year Rails codebase shows 102 different authors via git blame and contains surprises like a save_with_weak_validations helper, metaprogrammed method… | ||
| Ruby Smells | Piotr Szotkowski | 36m |
Argues that common Ruby code smells are concrete and fixable: shows examples like duplicate method calls, data clump, repeated conditional, control parameter… | ||
| Rewriting Code And Culture | Sabrina Leandro | 35m |
Songkick rewrites a growing Rails monolith into a set of HTTP services and independent front-end pages, starting with the highest-value event page and… | ||
| Extremely Defensive Coding | Sam Phippen | 35m |
Explains how RSpec makes stubbing reliable by evolving method-handle retrieval from naive object.method calls to a layered approach: saving… | ||
| Designing A Great Ruby API | Sean Griffin | 41m |
Rails adds an attributes API that extracts typecasting out of ad‑hoc attribute reader/writer overrides into explicit type objects and an AttributeSet, letting… | ||
| What Rust can teach us about Ruby | Steve Klabnik | 34m |
Compares Ruby’s runtime pipeline—tokenize, parse, compile, execute—and MRI bytecode with Rust’s ahead‑of‑time compilation, showing how Rust’s monomorphization… | ||
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