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Panel Discussion: The Future of Rails JobsRailsConf 20142014-04-22
Claims: Rails demand stays high but job skills widen beyond Rails to Rails + CoffeeScript + Angular + RSpec + PostgreSQL, onboarding now needs toolchain work…
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Building Colorado DevelopersRocky Mountain Ruby 20132013-09-25
A Denver-based immersive curriculum called G‑School already graduates 23 professional developers from its first class, keeps about 12 in Colorado, and places…
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Why Developers QuitNickel City Ruby Conference 20132013-09-20
Argues developers quit when esteem and self‑actualization vanish, not because of topic boredom, and shows remedies: shipping more, run retrospectives that…
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Properly Factored MVC in Rails ApplicationsRailsConf 20132013-04-29
A real refactor of a large Rails app: the stats controller is ~800 lines and one index action is ~200 lines with ~35 instance variables, so code is extracted…
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Building Developers Lessons Learned from Hungry AcademyGoRuCo 20122012-06-23
A six‑month, company‑run apprenticeship with LivingSocial converts novices into hires: 650 applicants yield 24 selected (3.6%) via video screens and an…
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Metric Driven Development with Ruby on RailsLA RubyConf 20122012-02-02
Ruby apps get profiled with perf tools.rb, memory with memprof-ish probes and GC counters, and DB issues with Bullet and slow-query watchers. Practical…
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There Are No TestsRocky Mountain Ruby 20112011-08-31
Claim: four out of five apps have zero or ineffective tests. Concrete fixes include adding unit tests for validations, relationships, and helpers; running…
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Testing PanelRocky Mountain Ruby 20112011-08-31
Writing the README first and using readme driven development plus inline TomDoc comments yields concrete results: tiny, smarter methods, explicit argument and…
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Blow Up Your ViewsLoneStarRuby Conf 20112011-08-11
Claims that Rails view templates are broken by instance variables and coupling and that replacing helpers with object decorators reduces complexity and…
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Dynamic Generation of Images and Video with Ruby-ProcessingMountainWest RubyConf 20102010-03-11
Prototype builds that actually output files not promises it uses Ruby-Processing wrapped as an 18MB JRuby gem, runs with rp5 watch to iterate sketches, and…
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Code of ArtRubyConf 20092009-11-19
Ruby hooked into Processing via JRuby claims to let standard Ruby code call Java libraries and produce visual sketches; installation delivers the Ruby…
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