Building services and integrating them into Rails is hard. Often times we talk about how nice it would be if our Rails apps were smaller and we had nicely encapsulated services. And it would be, but services introduce complexity. If you build your...

I hate to break it to you, guys, but Ruby is almost old enough to drink. What started out as a small community full of fun, silliness, and connection has been growing. Our small codebases are now large. Our small companies are now large. And the...

As technology continues to grow at an increasing rate, why is our educational system stuck in a pre-technology age? Why is programming rarely taught even at a High School level? Why do stereotypes of the isolated, nerdy programmer continue to ling...

Adrift at sea, a GPS device will report your precise latitude and longitude, but if you don't know what those numbers mean, you're just as lost as before. Similarly, there are many tools that offer a wide variety of metrics about your code, but ot...

The future is real time! With the Rails 4.0 Live Streaming API we finally have the ability to easily add real time functionality to our apps. Learn all about the live streaming API, how best to take advantage of this in the browser, and how to dep...

Craft beer is great. Ruby is great. When you can combine the two, you get a product that can only be described as Liquid Awesome. In this session, we will go over the brewing process and show how Ruby can help make better beer using automation, te...

I wrote the first wiki in a week. Why has it taken me a year to write another? Short answer: when something is already surprisingly simple its hard to make it simpler. This last year I set out to do for numbers what I had done for words, give the...

The basic premise is that we should be spending significantly more time thinking than we do programming and there are wide reaching ramifications to this point. Subtleties in how our non programming coworkers perceive some of us wandering around t...