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RailsConf 2022 - Ruby Archaeology by Nick Schwaderer - YouTube
In 2009 _why tweeted: "programming is rather thankless. you see your works become replaced by superior works in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."I take this as a call to action to run old code. In this talk we dig, together, through his...
RailsConf 2022 - Upgrading Rails: Everyone can do it and here’s how by Andrea Fomera - YouTube
Ever felt overwhelmed when figuring out how to upgrade a Rails app? Unsure where you should begin? We’ll talk about how upgrading should be treated as a feature, and how you can get buy-in from management for upgrading Rails. Have you heard about ...
RailsConf 2022 - How music works, using Ruby by Thijs Cadier - YouTube
That strange phenomenon where air molecules bounce against each other in a way that somehow comforts you, makes you cry, or makes you dance all night: music. Since the advent of recorded audio, a musician doesn't even need to be present anymore fo...
RailsConf 2022 - Your TDD Treasure Map by Christopher "Aji" Slater - YouTube
We know testing is vital and makes refactoring painless. But how to set sail to that TDD treasure? Yarr, we need to test to get experience, but need experience to test. Let’s draw a map with simple strategies for identifying test cases and buildin...
RailsConf 2022 - Experimental Patterns in ActiveRecord by John Crepezzi - YouTube
ActiveRecord provides a great deal of flexibility and speed of implementation for developers making new apps. As our teams and codebase grow and our services need to continue to scale, some of the patterns we use can start to get in our way. We've...
RailsConf 2022 - Laying the Cultural and Technical Foundation for Big Rails by Alex Evanczuk - YouTube
As applications built on Rails get larger and larger, and more and more engineers work in the same monolith, our community needs to think more about what sort of tooling and architectural changes will help us continue to scale. This talk shares id...
RailsConf 2022 - Functional Programming in Plain Terms by Eric Weinstein - YouTube
Have you ever wanted to know what a monad is? How about a functor? What about algebraic data types and parametric polymorphism? If you've been interested in these ideas but scared off by the language, you're not alone: for an approach that champio...
RailsConf 2022 - The pitfalls of realtime-ification by Vladimir Dementyev - YouTube
Building realtime applications with Rails has become a no-brainer since Action Cable came around. With Hotwire, we don't even need to leave the comfort zone of HTML and controllers to introduce live updates to a Rails app. Realtime-ification in ev...
Speed Up Your Rails App By Lazy Loading Your N 1 Queries
Wouldn't it be great if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default? Lazy loading is extremely helpful when the list of associations to load is determined dynamically. Today on the show, Ch...
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