XO Ruby Chicago 2025
2025-09-06
Chicago, United States
who it's for
Ruby developers, Ruby on Rails developers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, test engineers, nonprofit software developers, open source maintainers
topics
prompt driven web frameworks; Monkeys Paw prototype; dsls as prompts; Rails in government production; recheck gem automated checks; SQL constraints versus app validations; Ruby concurrency: fork threads fibers; async gem with fibers; RSpec flowchart driven TDD; Asky Flow diagram tooling; scaling Rails codebases and data locality; pruning large test suites
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| We Were Voyagers. We Can Voyage Again! | Scott Werner | 16m |
Argues that Ruby can reclaim its playful era by using Generative AI and shows a working prototype called Monkeys Paw, a prompt based web framework that sends… | ||
| A Builder's Guide to Not-for-Profit Ruby on Rails | Erin Claudio | 23m |
Ruby on Rails runs actual production systems: university library stacks, federal projects like USCIS and medicare.gov, and volunteer apps such as Human… | ||
| Perfect is too expensive | Peter Bhat Harkins | 28m |
Every nontrivial app accumulates impossible rows and full prevention is unaffordable, so the talk argues for regular automated checks: a small recheck gem that… | ||
| Concurrency in Ruby: From fork() to Fiber | Yuri Bocharov | 26m |
Builds a simple TCP server, measures throughput, and shows concrete results: the serial loop manages ~17 req/s, fork()/processes add true parallelism but hit… | ||
| The TDD Treasure Map | Aji Slater | 27m |
A practical technique emerges: draw a flowchart of one action, convert each path into RSpec rigging, watch failing tests drive minimal Rails code, and iterate… | ||
| A Tale at Any Scale | Justin Herrick | 29m |
Shows a Rails codebase at scale — roughly 8 million lines, ~1M commits, ~400 developers over 15 years — and gives concrete prescriptions: use data locality so… | ||
| Dystopia: How We Got Here, and What We Can Do About It | Coraline Ada Ehmke | 27m |
This lays out a history starting around 1995: cyberpunk’s influence, Internet Explorer hitting ~97% market share, Netscape -> Mozilla Firefox clawing back 37%… | ||
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