In an era where virtual meetings have become the norm and remote work dominates the tech landscape, you might wonder: what's the big deal about attending conferences in person? Can't you just watch the recordings later? The Ruby community has some compelling answers that might surprise
If you’ve been feeling creatively stuck or want to carve a new artistic path for yourself, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a 12 week program designed to help people rediscover and heal their relationships with creativity. While this will be a design-centered group, you don’t
The 7500 mile road trip begins in 2 weeks. If you're in the path of travel let us know we'd love to visit your community. Quick highlights: • 7 new speakers confirmed • Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans venue details finalized • DNSimple has signed on as an event
Language needs a community to flourish it is not an individual but a whole community of language users that guarantees the futureproof-ness, the usability, the pertinence, the practicality etc of a language. Ultimately, the survival of a language. 🔗Watch the full talk on RubyEvents – Ruby: How a language reflects its
Early next month we'll head to Chicago for our first event. We've been gearing up with projectors, PA systems, and stage backdrops to provide a consistent level of quality for all of our events. We're packing a car full of equipment and traveling from
I last interviewed for a job in 2007. Since then, each new opportunity in my career has come through my network. People who knew when I was ready for something new, who could vouch for my work, who said "here's a specific person with these traits, would
At RubyKaigi 2025 we were finally able to see what Marco Roth has been building toward although if you've been watching his work it was there all along. * Rails World 2024: The Future of Rails as a Full-Stack Framework powered by Hotwire * SF Bay Area Meetup: Announcing Hotwire.
Design isn’t just how something looks, but how it works, how it’s used, and how humans interact with it. Many things in our built environment—alarms, control panels, mobile apps, user interfaces—lead humans to make mistakes not because we aren’t paying attention, but because they’re
There's still time to apply to speak at Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. The Call for Papers closes on April 10th. They are looking talks about a wide variety of topics including everything from Advanced Technical talks to The Business of Rails.
Building the Depot Application Task A: Creating the Application Task B: Validation & Unit Testing
Getting Started Install Rails, craft a new application, learn the architecture, and get a refresher on Ruby.
Introduction and Overview Meet the book club cohort and discuss logistics. This is a great time to make sure that you have the right version of the book.
During the POODR Readalong Travis Spangle (LinkedIn) and Jim Remsik (LinkedIn) had a chance to catch-up. Travis has experience running book clubs and was looking forward to reading Agile Web Development with Rails 8 from Pragmatic Programmers. He was wondering if there were lessons learned from running the online book
Earlier this year we started a readalong of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby on The Storygraph. Lots of folks had suggested this is their favorite technical books of all time even if they no longer work in Ruby. The goal was to give folks some structure and read one of
Kelly Sutton shared Scholarly's tech journey this year and it's a cool case study in keeping things simple. They ditched the complex React setup for a streamlined Rails and Stimulus approach that's basically proving less is more. By focusing on server-side rendering and cutting