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rubyday 2024

Rails developers, Ruby developers, backend engineers, engineering managers, platform and cloud engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers

Ruby language quirks and pitfalls; Langchain.rb with Gemini API; PGVector nearest-neighbor search; Ruby on AWS Lambda deployments; RuboCop super-fast parser; endless method and data Define; pattern matching for JSON destructuring; Outcome monad / Railway Oriented Programming; RAG workflows and function-calling; ALS collaborative filtering and privacy mitigations

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Weird RubyBozhidar Batsov40m
Showcases concrete oddities: ENV is an Object that syncs with the process environment, numeric literals beginning with 0 are octal, modifier-if collides with…
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News Crawler via Langchain.RB and Gemini APIsRiccardo Carlesso40m
Builds a news crawler that crawls ~10,000 articles into a Rails app, embeds them and runs vector similarity via PGVector, then updates a base LLM using Gemini…
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Using Ruby on AWS's LambdaEmiliano Della Casa33m
Shows a working HTTP-to-SMS microservice implemented in Ruby and deployed to AWS Lambda, with actual problems and fixes: bundler cannot find Faraday 2.9.0 on…
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Discover Modern Ruby featuresLucian Ghinda38m
Covers concrete Ruby changes: endless method (Ruby 3.0) for compact single‑statement defs that can still be multiline, data Define (Ruby 3.2) for immutable…
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Monads: Exploring Railway Oriented Programming in RubyAbiodun Olowode43m
Live coding builds a small Ruby library that implements Railway Oriented Programming: an Outcome monad with Success/Failure types, bind and map for chaining…
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From Data to Recommendations: Building an Intelligent System with RORRashmi Nagpal23m
Claims a reproducible pipeline that turns user data into recommendations using Ruby on Rails, shows a working proof: linear regression house-price demo trained…
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Panel - Navigating a career: tech, people, and LLMsMonica Giambitto, Bozhidar Batsov, Rashmi Nagpal48m
Market dynamics shift: freelance demand spikes in 2020 then collapses around end of 2022 with layoffs ongoing, and marketplaces report profits tied to macro…
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The history of a Rails monolithC.Planas, A. Mikhaylov43m
A Rails monolith at Zendesk grows to 2 million lines of code with roughly 2,000 engineers and scales by extracting services, adding Kafka events, and moving…
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