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Indispensable: What Human Programmers Can Learn from Human...RubyConf 20262026-07-14
AI writes code but humans still decide what to build and how to validate it: 275,000 tech layoffs July 2025–June 2026 underscore the shift. Three historical…
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Derailing Our Application: How and Why We...RailsConf 20252025-07-08
Cisco decouples about 800,000 lines of Ruby from Rails constructs by extracting business logic from controllers, models, and ERB views into plain Ruby objects…
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Ruby Love – Alan RidlehooverRubyConf 20242024-11-13
Cisco moraki says it uses Rails and also runs Ruby quite extensively without rails, while device-level code stays in firmware in C++. Customers interact with a…
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A Brewer's Guide to Filtering out Complexity and...Rocky Mountain Ruby 20242024-10-07
Concrete outcome first a toy coffee machine is built then evolved until complexity metrics force a redesign using tests and SimpleCov, flog for ABC scores, and…
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The Secret Ingredient: How To Understand and Resolve Just...RubyConf 20232023-11-13
Every flaky test traces to one assumption about environment: it expects a particular state and that state sometimes changes. Three concrete failure modes…
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