Southeast Ruby 2017
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| No Code | Avdi Grimm | 47m |
Argues that writing less code increases leverage and lists concrete tactics: try the task manually until pain reveals a better path; adopt off‑the‑shelf… | ||
| Trust, but Verify | Ben Orenstein | 33m |
Argues that Elm already delivers practical correctness: a NoRedInk codebase runs 100k lines, zero runtime exceptions in production; the Elm compiler drives… | ||
| Keynote | Kinsey Ann Durham | 31m |
Examples of software that actually changes lives: Maya Android app — 50k–100k downloads, anonymous questions answered by experts within 48 hours; Bangladesh… | ||
| Boring Ruby Code | Adam Niedzielski | 29m |
Shows concrete GitLab code where metaprogramming like define_method, method_missing, const_get and a redefined [] operator hides where behavior lives, wastes… | ||
| Real-world Functional Ruby | Tim Riley | 35m |
A concrete claim: Ice Lab ships more than 10 apps in two years using this style with teams of two or three, proving it scales beyond toy examples. Code models… | ||
| Stateless Auth w/ JSON Web Tokens | Damir Svrtan | 34m |
Compares Rails sessions to JWTs and shows concrete tradeoffs: JWTs are signed not encrypted and carry claims like exp, iat, nbf and sub so clients can read… | ||
| Monitoring the Health of Self | Mary Thengvall | 31m |
A medical alert dog named Ember reliably detects nocturnal low blood sugar and prevents emergencies alongside an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor… | ||
| Building HUGE Web Apps: Rails at 1,000,000 Lines of Code | Brad Urani | 32m |
A Rails app grows past over a million lines and still ships features by focusing on restraint: fix n+1 queries, push work into background jobs, and prefer… | ||
| Using Databases to Pull Your Application Weight | Harisankar P S | 41m |
Shows concrete database moves that cut CPU and cost: move heavy joins into Postgres materialized views, convert view rows to JSON in the DB instead of Ruby… | ||
| Pluck It | Adam Cuppy | 39m |
Explains how small internal utilities become standalone gems by using bundle gem to scaffold a gem, moving code into a Lib namespace, adding a version file and… | ||
| Open Source: When Nights & Weekends Are Not Enough | Ernesto Tagwerker | 32m |
Argues that contributions often happen during the workweek (an opensource survey surprised him), not just nights and weekends, and shows practical habits: use… | ||
| Publishing Them as Gems | Daniel Pritchett | 31m |
Shows how to package chat bot skills as reusable Ruby gems using the Lita gem and its handler generator, with real code: a tiny doubler skill, a Tumblr scraper… | ||
| Motorcycles and the Art of Software Maintenance | Caleb Matthiesen | 33m |
Argues for pragmatic maintenance: Ruby app uses service objects to move large controller logic into single-call classes, the team of three ships a product used… | ||
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