Ruby Central Courses

Building Ruby Head for Your Rails App

Learn to build and run Ruby head on Docker for Rails app testing, exploring Docker, jemalloc, and the benefits of using cutting-edge Ruby versions in your development workflow.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Migrating Shopify's Core Rails Monolith to Trilogy

Explore Shopify's migration from Mysql2 to Trilogy, covering MySQL protocols, Active Record adapters, and open source contributions. Learn about implementation challenges and the impact on Shopify's monolith.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Offsite Planning for Everyone

Learn effective strategies for planning engaging virtual and in-person offsites, fostering team connection and alignment in remote work environments. Discover key considerations for successful offsite events.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Don't Be Afraid of the Scary Red Error Messages; They're Actually Our Friends

Embrace errors as learning opportunities to enhance coding skills and deliver quality solutions. Discover actionable strategies for handling failures and growing from mistakes.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building an Offline Experience with a Rails-Powered PWA

Discover how to transform your Rails app into a Progressive Web App, enabling offline functionality and native-like experiences using Rails 7's front-end tools.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Applying Microservices Patterns to a Modular Monolith

Explore applying microservices patterns to modular monoliths, focusing on data consistency and distributed transactions. Learn from real-world experiences, pitfalls, and insights.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Who Wants to Be a Ruby Engineer?

Interactive game show exploring Ruby's quirks and challenging developers to predict code outputs, enhancing understanding of the language's nuances and edge cases.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Off to the Races

Explore race conditions in Rails apps: detection, reproduction, testing, and fixing strategies for shared resources and multi-process environments.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Using Rails Engines to Supercharge Your Team

Explore Rails engines as powerful tools for modular development, focusing on their role in implementing GraphQL Federation at Doximity and enhancing team productivity.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building a World Class Engineering Organization - Learning from Cave Paintings and Horsey Land Art

Explore principles for building enduring engineering organizations, drawing insights from ancient structures and applying them to modern Rails app development.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Forging Your Path to Senior Developer

Illuminating the journey from mid-level to senior developer, offering guidance on technical mastery, leadership skills, and career growth strategies in software development.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Let's Standardize Rails, Once and For All!

Participate in a community-driven effort to establish standardized Rails conventions through a town hall-style event, voting on rubocop-rails rules to create a consensus-based linter and formatter for Rails developers.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Performance Does - Not - Matter

Explore Ruby's creator Matz's insights on performance optimization, balancing speed with developer happiness, and the future direction of the language.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Solidarity not Charity and Collective Liberation

Explore mutual aid initiatives, their impact, and lessons learned from tech-driven community support projects. Gain insights on effective volunteering and fostering solidarity in times of crisis.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Eclectics Unite - Leverage Your Diverse Background

Explore how diverse experiences in translation, snowboarding, and drumming can enhance software development skills and provide unique perspectives in Ruby programming.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk