Rubyfuza 2018
2018-02-01..2018-02-03
Cape Town, South Africa
Rubyfuza ·
[Rubyfuza 2013, RubyFuza 2014, Rubyfuza 2018]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lessons learnt in pursuit of growth | Ridhwana Khan | 28m |
Five-week Silicon Valley mentorship includes visits to Google, Twitter, Facebook, NASA and Autodesk and a four-week placement at LinkedIn where three mentors… | ||
| Orbital Rocket Guidance with Ruby | Nate Berkopec | 50m |
Uses Kerbal Space Program plus the kRPC gem and Ruby to emulate an Apollo Guidance Computer style controller, building a cooperative multitasker with… | ||
| Fantastic chatbots and where to find them | Simon, Arrie | 25m |
Claims that developers can build a chatbot without knowing AI and demonstrates it with concrete tools: Google Dialogflow for intent/entity/context, Google… | ||
| Make it SPECtacular | Megan O'Neill | 20m |
Argues that tiny, concrete changes cut spec-writing time: adopt one-to-one describe names like API::V1::Users::PostsController, use explicit… | ||
| Sticky Ruby | Ben Janecke | 23m |
Shows concrete Ruby patterns for composing code: a TCP connection object gets behavior via modules (a retry module added to customer breaks semantics)… | ||
| Ouch! That Code Hurts My Brain | Sihui Huang | 23m |
Claim: refactor by keep each puzzle small and leave many clues so future readers reconstruct the big picture with far less effort. Concrete actions: rename… | ||
| Building Ruby in Ruby | Jacques Visser | 21m |
Reimplements core bits of Ruby purely in Ruby: custom boolean objects with if_true/if_false methods that execute blocks and return self, and a Church-inspired… | ||
| Mongo: An unexpected journey | Gys Miller | 27m |
Project starts on Postgres then moves to MongoDB and hits slow queries as lists grow from ~5 items to very long. Team adds indexes, uses in-memory cached list… | ||
| Fun with an Amazon Echo, Ruby and Recipes | Miles Woodrofee | 28m |
Built an Alexa skill that links Cookpad recipes to voice by using a Ruby Alexa gem (Alexa Ruby Kit), a Rails endpoint served via ngrok, and Amazon account… | ||
| Around the Ruby Block | Elize de Jager | 39m |
Shows why a nested-RSpec let value unexpectedly becomes invisible inside an inner block: let creates a helper method, instance_eval-like calls change self, and… | ||
| Using GraphQL and Relay for hybrid Ruby on Rails applications | Caio Almeida | 33m |
Migrates a Drupal monolith to a Rails microservice architecture using GraphQL + Rails headless API for a single endpoint and explicit types, React (web and… | ||
| Growing data in a Ruby world | Tamar Rucham | 27m |
Project handles over a billion contacts, moves from MySQL to a hybrid stack: Cassandra as source of truth for scalable writes, Elasticsearch for searches… | ||
| Simulating and Testing Third Party Service Integrations | Konstatin Tennhard | 27m |
A small Ruby library called request interceptor simulates HTTP services using a concise Sinatra app per service, runs as a Rack middleware in development, and… | ||
| Tomorrow's UI Architecture — Structuring UI applications Around Features | Rob Fall | 39m |
Argues that UI apps should be organized around concrete features called scenes so each URL identifies the data and the linear flow to render it, using… | ||
| DIY projects with Ruby & Pi | Helio Cola | 33m |
Builds two working projects: a Raspberry Pi 3 motion sensor that posts events to a local Rails API (uses Ruby, a simple users/locations/sensors/events model… | ||
| Fast Code Without Breaking Things | Richard Ellington | 34m |
Claimed 100% overall speedup in three months by rewriting the pipeline around Quattro (Ruby builds expression trees, Python workers run them). Identical… | ||
| Dockerizing Ruby apps and moving off Engine Yard | Cobus Bernard | 46m |
Company moves ~7–8 services off Engine Yard onto AWS using Docker images in ECR, Terraform for infra-as-code, and auto scaling groups with CodeDeploy. Engine… | ||
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