Ruby Central Courses

Understanding Ruby Web Server Internals - Puma, Falcon, and Pitchfork Compared

Explore Ruby web server internals comparing Puma, Falcon, and Pitchfork's execution models, performance optimization, and how to choose the right server for your specific use case.

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

Unraveling the Black Box - Past, Present and Future of Authentication in Rails

Explore Rails 8's new authentication generator, from Devise history to modern passwordless flows, OAuth, and security best practices for web developers.

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

Cache = Cash! 2.0 - Advanced Rails Caching Techniques for High Performance

Discover advanced Rails caching techniques beyond the basics, from fragment caching to CPU-level optimization strategies that can deliver 10-million-fold performance improvements.

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

The Modern View Layer Rails Deserves - A Vision for 2025 and Beyond

Explore how a new HTML-aware ERB parser could revolutionize Rails views with LiveView-style reactivity while preserving HTML-over-the-wire philosophy and modern tooling.

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

Silent Killers - Lessons from the Brink

Discover practical strategies to diagnose Rails app health and revive struggling codebases without painful rewrites using battle-tested techniques.

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

New and Improved Features in Rails 8.1

Discover new Rails 8.1 features and improvements developed by Shopify's Ruby & Rails Infrastructure team through lightning talks covering framework enhancements and gap-filling updates.

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

From FTP to Kamal - 20 Years of Deploying Rails

Explore the evolution of Rails deployment from FTP and CGI to modern Docker and Kamal, celebrating 20 years of tools, innovations, and community-driven progress in this nostalgic journey.

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

How 10 Years of RailsConf Can Inform the Next 10 Years of Your Career

Discover how a decade of RailsConf experiences can shape your next 10 years through technology insights, career pivots, networking, and personal growth in this reflective talk.

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

Ruby Internals - A Guide For Rails Developers

Explore Ruby's interpreter internals including the new Prism parser, YARV VM, garbage collection, and YJIT optimizations to write more performant Rails code without C knowledge.

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

How to Instrument Your Rails App with OpenTelemetry

Discover how to instrument Rails applications with OpenTelemetry's traces, metrics, and logs for enhanced observability and monitoring capabilities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Ghosts of Action View Cache

Discover Action View caching through a journey across time, learning Russian Doll Caching, modern tools, and future Rails optimization techniques for faster, maintainable views.

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

From Resque to SolidQueue - Rethinking Background Jobs for Modern Times

Discover how to migrate from Resque to SolidQueue with minimal disruption, including parallel rollout strategies, SLO-based queue naming, and lessons learned from a real-world Rails modernization.

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

10 Costly Database Performance Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Discover 10 real-world Rails database mistakes that cause costly performance issues and learn practical solutions to optimize queries, indexing, and schema design for better efficiency.

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

Hotwire Native - A Rails Developer's Secret Tool to Building Mobile Apps

Discover how to build iOS and Android apps using your existing Rails skills with Hotwire Native, eliminating the need to code screens three times across platforms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Front-end is Omakase

Explore Rails front-end development philosophy, moving from overwhelming choice overload to opinionated, productive defaults like the back-end framework offers.

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