Ruby Central Courses

Rails Framework Defaults - Defusing the Time Bomb in Your Upgraded App

Discover how to properly complete your Rails upgrade by updating framework defaults to prevent production issues and ensure your application runs optimally.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Contributing to Rails - Start with the Gems You Already Use

Discover how to begin contributing to open source by improving gem compatibility with new Ruby and Rails versions, learning best practices for CI and pull requests.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Keeping the Rails Magic Alive After 18 Years

Discover how to scale Rails applications through 18 years of evolution, from monolith to Component Based Rails Architecture, plus open-source tools for long-term success.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Rails Story - Two Decades of Design and Decisions

Explore Rails' evolution over two decades, uncovering design decisions like "Convention over Configuration" and understanding why features evolved or disappeared.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Internationalization on Rails - Unpacking the Rails I18n Toolkit

Discover how to build multilingual Rails apps using built-in I18n tools and gems, making your application accessible to global users from day one.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UX and Design for Rails Devs - Elevating the "One Person Framework" Experience

Discover how to enhance user experience and design skills as a Rails developer, focusing on creating better interfaces for solo development projects.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Simplifying at Scale - 7 Years of Rails Architecture at Persona

Discover how Persona scaled Rails from Google App Engine to global Kubernetes deployment, exploring architectural decisions, trade-offs, and why simplicity is key to sustainable growth.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Off the Rails - Validating Non-Model Classes with ActiveModel

Explore building a flexible validation class that applies Rails validators to Hash, Struct, and Data instances without creating ActiveModel classes.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Not Invented Here - Things Rails Didn't Innovate

Discover how Rails embraces design patterns from other frameworks, exploring Active Record's origins, MVC concepts, and the Merb project absorption to inspire your own innovations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Derailing Our Application - How and Why We Are Decoupling Our Code from Rails

Discover how Cisco decoupled 800,000 lines of Ruby code from Rails to scale their 4 million line codebase for 1,000+ engineers while maintaining Rails benefits.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Future of Rails Begins in the Browser

Discover how WebAssembly, WebContainers, and in-browser databases enable Rails learning directly in browsers, eliminating installation barriers for newcomers.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Getting More Out of LLMs for Ruby Developers

Discover how to leverage LLM tools effectively as a Ruby developer through Chime's pilot programs and AI code review bot insights from industry experts.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Development Speed Optimizations in Rails 8

Discover Rails 8's development speed optimizations including boot process improvements, initializer changes, file watching enhancements, and route drawing updates for larger applications.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

RailsConf 2025 Closing Keynote

Discover insights from Ruby expert Aaron Patterson's closing keynote at RailsConf 2025, featuring his unique perspective on Rails development and the Ruby ecosystem.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Future of PWAs on Rails

Explore PWA patterns, caching strategies, and push notifications while learning to implement Progressive Web Apps the Rails way with generators and ActionNotifier.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video