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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | XO Ruby San Diego 2025 | 2025-10-18 |
Tracing Christopher Alexander to software, the talk maps concrete claims: Alexander documents 253 patterns and suggests a community cap of about 7,000 and a… | ||
| Fifty Years of Ruby | RubyConf 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Claims that Ruby rediscovered Smalltalk and traces concrete artifacts from Xerox Alto and Smalltalk 72/76/80 to Ruby 0.95 and Rails 2004, showing what actually… | ||
| Laziness is a Virtue: Lazy, Functional, Immutable Ruby | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 | 2024-10-07 |
Argues that computing values only when needed improves readability and changeability and shows concrete Ruby techniques: refactoring a Rails controller to… | ||
| Nil - Nothing is Easy, Is It? | Blue Ridge Ruby 2024 | 2024-05-30 |
Nil causes expensive runtime errors and the talk gives concrete fixes: use the safe navigation operator (&.) (Ruby 2.3), prefer Array.wrap and .compact for… | ||
| ActiveRecord, the Repository Pattern, and You | RailsConf 2019 | 2019-05-01 |
Claims a way to split domain and persistence on Rails while keeping the framework’s conveniences and getting faster tests, simpler code, decoupling from the… | ||
| Booleans are Easy - True or False? | RailsConf 2018 | 2018-04-17 |
Argues that simple booleans hide real costs, demonstrates multiple anti‑patterns and concrete fixes: replaces ambiguous boolean flags with named parameters or… | ||
| A Look at Hooks | RubyConf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Lists the actual Ruby hooks covered, shows method_missing with the proper signature and why also to implement respond_to_missing, demos new implemented roughly… | ||
| Ruby Preserves | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
A tiny ORM called Ruby Preserves claims to keep the essence of mapping while staying 350 lines long and using raw SQL instead of a DSL; it implements the… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
Quick notes so picking tonight is concrete: Michael Hartl is soliciting Learn Enough to be Dangerous collaborators and newbies by email; Tommy Talker uses… | ||
| http://exploration | RailsConf 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Hands-on lab that actually boots a vagrant box and HTTP exploration VM, runs vagrant up and vagrant ssh, and uses real network tools: openssl s_client and… | ||
| Ruby Idioms You're Not Using Yet | RubyConf 2014 | 2014-11-17 |
Idioms are some of the smallest patterns that we use in our programming languages. Learning the idioms of a language helps you more quickly understand commonly… | ||
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