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Lightning Talk: "Our revels are at an end"Blue Ridge Ruby 20262026-04-30
A method for retiring long lived systems that claims a deliberate final sequence rather than abandonment: a 23 year old app is finally finished with DNS taken…
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Do the Right Thing: Practical lessons for your..XO Ruby New Orleans 20252025-09-20
A concrete path from Rails defaults to measurable compliance: generate a Rails 8.1 app, scaffold a secrets resource, encrypt content column with Active Record…
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My Rails App is Old Enough to Drink: Over Two...Blue Ridge Ruby 20242024-05-30
An app runs the same codebase for 24 years and still serves a weekly newspaper feature, originally sending TIFFs on CDs. It starts in ColdFusion and migrates…
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Learning Statistics Will Save Your LifeMountainWest RubyConf 20152015-03-09
Shows concrete stats you can use right now: a 169-user dataset with 3,320 badges yields mean ≈20, median 2, mode 1 and standard deviation 36 because test…
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Machine Learning for Fun and ProfitRocky Mountain Ruby 20142014-09-24
Uses Ruby on your Rails Users table to produce concrete results: assigns likely gender with the sex_machine gem, backfills location with freegeoip/MaxMind…
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