Ruby Central Courses

RubyConf Mini 2022 - Lightning Talks

Engaging series of rapid-fire presentations on Ruby-related topics, offering diverse insights and innovative ideas from the Ruby community.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Teaching Ruby to Count

Explore advanced Ruby techniques for iteration, data series, and custom object generation. Learn to leverage Enumerable, Enumerators, and Ranges to create joyful interfaces for your teammates.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Brewer’s Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn

Explore strategies to manage complexity and extensibility in software development, drawing parallels between coffee machines and code architecture for more maintainable systems.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Empathetic Pair Programming with Nonviolent Communication

Explore nonviolent communication techniques to enhance pair programming, fostering deep listening and collaboration for more joyful and fulfilling coding experiences.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Who Wants to Be a Ruby Engineer?

Interactive game show exploring Ruby's quirks and challenging developers to predict code outputs, offering a fun way to deepen language understanding.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Here Be Dragons - The Hidden Gems of Tech Debt

Discover tools to identify and prioritize unmaintainable code, improve code quality, and tackle technical debt effectively in your Ruby projects.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Keynote

Inspiring keynote exploring effective communication strategies, leadership skills, and personal growth for Ruby developers and tech professionals.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Weaving and Seaming Mocks

Explore techniques to keep mocks aligned with real implementations in Ruby testing, including a novel approach using mock fixtures and contracts.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Anyone Can Play Guitar - With Ruby

Explore object-oriented principles to model a blues shuffle using Ruby, combining inheritance, composition, and dependency injection to simulate guitar playing through an amplifier.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Learning DNS

Explore DNS fundamentals and intricacies with Julia Evans in this engaging keynote, uncovering the inner workings of domain name systems and their impact on web development.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Ooops! You Named It Wrong. What Now?

Strategies for handling misnamed code elements in evolving projects. Learn to adapt naming conventions, make safe changes, and balance timely updates with code stability in Rails development.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GraphQL and Rails Beyond HTTP APIs

Explore GraphQL's versatility beyond HTTP APIs in Rails projects, including real-time data delivery, webhooks, WebAssembly integration, and efficient data export techniques.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Unboxing Rails 7 - What's New in the Latest Major Version

Explore key changes in Rails 7: removal of webpacker and spring, encrypted attributes, asynchronous queries, autoloading updates, and new front-end tools. Learn upgrade process and architectural decisions.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Rails Performance Guidebook - From 0 to 1B Requests - Day

Discover strategies and real-world examples for optimizing Rails applications to handle billions of daily requests. Learn patterns, tricks, and practical solutions for improving performance at scale.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Success of Ruby on Rails

Explore Ruby on Rails' success, governance, and contribution opportunities. Learn strategies for convincing leadership to invest in Rails and understand its long-term value for organizations.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk