Up And Down Again: A Migration’s Tale by Derek Prior You run rake db:migrate and rake db:schema:load regularly, but what do they actually do? How does rake db:rollback automatically reverse migrations and why can’t it reverse all of them? How can you teach these tasks new tricks to support additional database constructs? We’ll answer all […]
May 18, 2018carol
Inside Active Storage: a code review of Rails’ new framework by Claudio Baccigalupo Rails 5.2 ships with a new library to support file uploads: Active Storage. In this talk, we will analyze its internal code, learning how it integrates with Active Record and Action Pack to supply amazing features out of the box, from image […]
Re-graphing The Mental Model of The Rails Router by Vaidehi Joshi Rails is incredibly powerful because of its abstractions. For years, developers have been able to hit the ground running and be productive without having to know the in’s and out’s of the core computer science concepts that fuel this framework. But just because something […]
Giving your Heroku App highly-available PostgreSQL by Jake Varghese As you’re building out your app, you know how important it is to have your database up at all times. You need your PostgreSQL database to be HA. Jake from Compose is going to show you how to migrate your data to a HA PG service […]
An Atypical ‘Performance’ Talk by Chris Arcand A mixture of a talk on programming and a live classical music recital. Listen to a former-orchestral-clarinetist-turned-developer talk about parallelisms between music performance and programming – such as complexity, imposter syndrome, and true concentration – with live performances throughout! May 18, 2018carol
Minitest 6: test feistier! by Ryan Davis Minitest 5 ships with ruby and is the standard test framework for rails. It already provides a traditional unit test framework, spec DSL, mocks, stubs, test randomization, parallelization, machine agnostic benchmarking, and tons of assertions all in under 2kloc. So what would Minitest 6 do differently? Hopefully to […]
Engineering Engineering: More than the sum of our parts by Vietor Davis Applying the tried and true answers of “It depends.”, “Maybe?”, and “It works for me, what if you try …” to our engineering organizations themselves turns out to work better than trying to find the One True Way. We all know that every […]
Deploying any Rails application to any cloud in minutes by Khash Sajado Let us show you the easiest way to build, deploy and manage any Rails application on any cloud provider and under your own cloud account. We will also show you how to scale your databases, setup database replication and add off-site backups to […]
Stop Testing, Start Storytelling by Mike Schutte Stop trying to be a computer; you’re a human! You know what humans are good at? Storytelling. Stop trying to write tests just to get a green test suite, and start telling rich, descriptive stories. Once you have a good story, then you can worry about the implementation […]
Ten years of Rails upgrades by Jordan Raine Upgrading Rails can go from easy-to-hard quickly. If you’ve struggled to upgrade to a new version of Rails, you’re not alone. And yet, with useful deprecation warnings and extensive beta periods, Rails has never made it easier to upgrade. So what makes it hard? By looking at […]
Putting Rails in a corner: Understanding database isolation by Emil Ong If you’ve ever had inconsistent data show up in your app even though you wrapped the relevant code in a transaction, you’re not alone! Database isolation levels might be the solution… This talk will discuss what database isolation levels are, how to set them […]
