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Large software projects stand a slim chance of ever being finished. Compared to work created in other fields, the ones that do survive lead very short lives. It's not uncommon for a building to stand well over a hundr...

This talk explores numbers in Ruby: integers, arbitrary-precision integers, floats, arbitrary-precision decimals, and rationals.

We are going to cover implementation in MRI and relate some abstract mathematical p...

What happens when you not only ignore every coding advice you've ever got but willingly do the opposite. Go against every guideline you have encountered, write code that pretends to work.

* Prepare for the strang...

It took a while, but Rails 4 finally got out the door earlier this
year. Rails has never been a project to rest on its laurels, and X.1 releases always have tons of new goodies.

In this talk, Steve will give you...

The story of the quest to make `bundle install` faster; in which Rubyists around the world inadvertently DDoS rubygems.org, witness its ignominious death, and vow to rebuild it from the ashes stronger than it was befo...

Infrastructure as Code has been a popular industry buzz-phrase, but our initial investigations left our head spinning with so many terms and concepts. Eventually we settled on using Chef, but it wasn't as easy as we i...

Learn and develop yourself and your team through side projects, week-end projects & random hacks. How to get the most of these kinds of projects and how the RoR community can help you create beautiful stuff. 

Most of us know how to build beautiful web applications with Rails. With the help of templating tools like ERB and HAML our web apps create HTML documents, but, do you know exactly how those HTML documents end up in a...

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)  has been a structured data format frequently used in of Ruby development for some time.  It has many useful features that often go unnoticed.  

Its ability to store serialized ob...

Ruby applications are becoming more complex and unwieldy (think MonoRails). An increasing number of us are trying to address this by separating our apps into gems without knowing best practices on how to write APIs or...

All you need to know to supercharge your Rails application using various levels of caching.
 

The pursuit of losing weight is something that people always try to achieve; the same thing happens with web apps so I'll show a plan to reduce that extra fat on the browser that we always left there.

I'm gonna ex...

The traditional way of running a company has been documented by people from Harvard Business School and many other reputable institutions. If you do it differently you are considered to be in uncharted territory. I've...

The story of all the pitfalls we had while transferring FTBpro.com from the good old web to a Backbone single page application... and all the great solutions we've came up with

Historically, many Ruby on Rails applications used MySQL.  But over the last few years, thanks partly to Heroku and partly to the politics of MySQL/Sun/Oracle, more and more people have been using PostgreSQL in their ...

Bundler has turned out to be a super-useful tool for installing and managing dependencies, but it has hidden depths. Here are some ways you can use Bundler's mostly known depths to boost your development productivity....

MongoDB - a powerful NoSQL database used as an efficient mail queue system, together with ruby, together with rails, as successful relationship ♥.

I would like to tell you why we decided to use mongodb for that...

Heroku was a great way to kick off a service fast, but proved problematic when the business grew. We will share some notes about the reasons we had to move out, the lessons we learned along the way and the bottom-line...

Going big means you have to break things. Let's break the MVC, split Rails, use the good parts of it and move the the heavy jobs outside.

Let’s that say you want to create an Admin App. that manages models in the “scaffold” way with your own look & feel.

Well,
Scaffold can be customized but is not DRY,
Rails-Admin/Active-Admin doesn’t give you ...

The first Rails Girls Summer of Code is over. 33 women participated worldwide. For many it was the perfect opportunity to get started in the world of web development, but to make sure it’s not just a RoR detour, more ...

We have seen a lot of rankings in our lifes, not only in WebApps but also in different devices, usually as part of a gamification implementation. But is it being really effective?

In fact, the majority of ranking...