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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Fireside Chat with Taylor Otwell and David Heinemeier Hansson | Laravel Live Denmark 2026 | 2026-08-20 |
Laravel launches in 2011 and Rails in 2004, Laravel borrowing core ideas like Eloquent = ActiveRecord and routing patterns while building tooling around real… | ||
| Fireside Chat | RailsConf 2025 | 2025-07-08 |
Claims that Rails keeps extracting fewer cruftier layers, that browsers now replace preprocessors, and that Turbo and import maps are temporary crutches… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Rails World 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
Announces Rails 7.1 and seven concrete tools with what they actually do: a minimal asset pipeline, faster client workflows, DB-backed infra, a job UI, and a… | ||
| Rails Core AMA | Rails World 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
Ten core members answer how Rails actually evolves: features must solve general web problems, be validated in real apps or gems, and have a clean API before… | ||
| Rails Luminary Award Winners | Rails World 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
Conference segment announces the inaugural Rails Luminary Awards, naming a Gorails founder as the community-nominated winner for decades of tutorials… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Infobip Shift 2021 | 2021-09-07 |
Description of HEY and Basecamp work, claim that HEY ships 60KB vs Gmail 3MB for the inbox and proves heavy JS is unnecessary, explanation of Hotwire (Turbo… | ||
| Keynote Interview | RailsConf 2020 CE | 2020-05-04 |
Claims a return to a server-rendered core with lots of native wrapping: a majestic monolith handling HTML with small native layers, using Turbolinks web views… | ||
| Opening Keynote | RailsConf 2019 | 2019-05-01 |
Argues that Ruby on Rails was built as a gift economy under the MIT license as altruism, not a market contract, and that Rails actually works — powering… | ||
| Opening Keynote: FIXME | RailsConf 2018 | 2018-04-17 |
Claim: decades of conceptual compression let teams ship without deep SQL or full-time DBAs so Basecamp runs one writable database, avoided sharding, and has no… | ||
| Opening Keynote | RailsConf 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Argues that Rails survives because of programmer happiness as a concrete value, not benchmarks; claims a set of principles called the Rails doctrine was… | ||
| Opening Keynote | RailsConf 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Announces Rails 5 as a milestone and describes concrete features: Turbolinks 3 adds data-turbo-permanent to cache pages and carry client-side state (shopping… | ||
| Keynote: Writing Software | RailsConf 2014 | 2014-04-22 |
Argues that test-driven design often degrades architecture by forcing needless dependency injection, shows Rails examples where unit tests pass yet Basecamp… | ||
| Patterns of Basecamp's Application Architecture | RailsConf 2013 | 2013-04-29 |
Argues for a document‑first web model and shows concrete techniques: keybased cache expiration that auto‑invalidates on model changes, Russian doll nested… | ||
| Progress | RailsConf 2012 | 2012-04-23 |
Progress comes with concrete tradeoffs: REST, Bundler and the asset pipeline change APIs and deploys, Ruby 1.9 adoption still leaves about one third of rooms… | ||
| RailsConf 2011, David Heinemeier Hansson | RailsConf 2011 | 2011-05-16 |
Rails 3.1 introduces the asset pipeline that enforces structure (empty folders) and a load path so assets live in app/assets, lib/assets, vendor/assets instead… | ||
| Keynote: Why Ruby? | RubyConf 2010 | 2010-11-11 |
Argues that Ruby wins on concrete choices: language-level monkey patching and MIT licensing enable experimentation; Rails and GitHub produce collaboration and… | ||
| Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity | RailsConf 2009 | 2009-05-04 |
Rails 3 refactors internals (abstract controller, ActiveRelation) and rewrites the router to be Rack-mountable so multiple apps (Sinatra, even Django parts)… | ||
| Rails Core Panel | RailsConf 2009 | 2009-05-04 |
Panel answers focus on concrete changes and asks: progress on mountable reusable apps, a pluggable JSON backends mechanism to avoid json gem clashes, and a… | ||
| Panel Discussion | RailsConf Europe 2008 | 2008-09-02 |
Announces immediate releases: 2.0.4 (bug fixes), 2.1.1 (large backport sweep) and a 2.2 beta coming soon; Rails bundles the REXML DoS fix to protect apps until… | ||
| RailsConf Europe 08: David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) | RailsConf Europe 2008 | 2008-09-02 |
Claim: legacy is an opinion that inevitably appears as developers learn, not a technology failure; Rails projects age too — Basecamp spans ~5 years and still… | ||
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