Web apps are great and everything, but imagine using Ruby to fly drones and make them dance to the sounds of dubstep! Or to control disco lights and other robots! Sounds fun, right? In this talk, we will not only...

The OpenStruct class was written by Matz in 1998 and has been part of the standard library since Ruby 1.2. The idea behind OpenStruct—a data structure that provides method access to arbitrary attributes—is broadly ...

There are over 100,000 gems in Rubygems, enough for the Ruby community to have coined the half-joke *“there's a gem for that”* as an answer to everything.

When presented with a new problem, a rubyist's first impul...

Security is an afterthought for your app? You have a problem, but after you review your application and apply all of the tips I'll talk about, attackers will have it much harder than before. 

We'll go over whiteli...

A lot of people have being using Rails to develop both their internal or external API, and integrating it with tons of things from JS framework to third party services and IoT devices. But building a high quality API...

Developers often associate Redis with terms like caching/optimisations and not as a primary data-store.

We in Spot.IM use Redis differently than any other company, by using it exclusively for all aspects of our da...

As developers, we often stare at a computer screen all day only to come home and stare at more glowing boxes all night. Having a productive, nontechnical hobby can really help to keep us sharp for our day jobs.

You'll...

Does the application you’ve been working on have customers in any other location but your home town? Do you have to deal with the different time zones of where your customers live?

Learn how to handle different ti...

Boris will be talking about general architecture of market places and a proper way to handle payments as well as knowing who owns the money and whom to at any particular moment of time. Topics that will be covered: p...

Keeping' an Rails app running in production should be a walk in the park, but sometimes things get a bit hairy, so it's time to get your hard hat and get messy with that old code you have. 

I'll walk you through...

Over the past 7 years at Zendesk we've deployed our Rails applications almost every way you can think of. This talk takes you on the journey from running Capistrano on a dev machine to deploying our applications to thous...

We will start by understanding what pry does and how it can be used in our every day life.
After a short exploration of the eco system and the available extensions we will take a deep dive into the different techniq...

Everyone is hacking everything. Everything is vulnerable. Your site, your users, even you. Are you worried about this? You should be!

Don't worry, I'm not trying to scare you (that much). We have plenty of safeg...

One day I realized that following rails conventions and applying rails best practices is not enough build complex applications.
I will show you my path from Rails app to modular app, which is not depending on Rails.

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After a tiring day at work, you want to build something fun in lets say 4 hours? Writing Games is the answer ..!!
Playing games is fun, but building one is even more fun. And add ruby to game development, it just cannot...

Who doesn't love ActiveRecord? It lets us easily work with our relational database while hiding away all the SQL. Unfortunately, as your code base and traffic grow, those < ActiveRecord::Base models are not going to cut ...

How great it is to work with Redis and Rails
How quickly it fails?
And what can you do about it.