Why readable tests are important and one trick to set you straight - Dan Draper @danieldraper

for August please

Happy to do a presentation based on my blog posts at: https://reinteractive.net/posts/220-better-development-with-feature-flags and https://reinteractive.net/posts/221-feature-flags-on-rails

Would prefer a 15 minute session, will make it a good introduction to the topic with some discussion more suited towards intermediate and advanced developers.

Hey there,

I thought I'll put up my hand for a lighting talk and speak about my x-ray machine thing and its usage in profiling rails apps. a short 5 mins slot will be fine.

If i can make it to the March 2015 that would be awesome.

A talk about how to learn the most you can from your co-workers

I'd like to know how HackerNews selects it articles and how to write to get your blog post on to HackerNews

Actual title TBD.

In 2003, object relational mapping was infamously described as “the Vietnam of computer science”. Then Rails came along. I want to talk about the legacy of object relational mapping in the software industry (good and bad), with special reference to the evolution of ActiveRecord in Rails, and why—in 2015—more and more people are rejecting the ActiveRecord style, in favour of immutable data structures and CQRS.

I intend this talk to be historically accurate, but will include some fairly strong opinions about the social history of software (hence the hagiographical disclaimer). Most of the talk will be appropriate for a beginner to mid-level audience, particularly those with a Rails app or two behind them. There will be a couple of brief excursions into conceptual/architectural heresy that more advanced people will appreciate (hopefully).

Or: How not to use rails, and other stories

We all use open source software, and it's nice to give back.

Whether you're just starting out as a Rails coder, or a seasoned developer scratching an itch, contributing back to the projects you use benefits everyone.

As an recent contributor, I'll describe my experience getting code accepted to a gem, and define key points I think are important in getting your contribution accepted.

I would like to talk about how we can develop hybrid mobile apps using the technologies we already know like Rails, Angular etc

Talk will primarily based on Ionic Framework and hoping to cover the followings.

• Basic structure of an ionic app, and how its familiar to us as web/rails developers
• How to make use of native app functionalities , available plugins
• How to test your app, (on browser, simulator, devise)
• Deploying your app for testing ( some 3rd party services)
• ionic echo system and their tools.
• tradeoffs of Hybrid apps

cheers,

sam

Hi @tobyhede Moved this here as we already had others lined up for this month

Quoted from https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Melbourne-Ruby-for-Newbies-night

If you're a ruby-newbie

Please add to the list of talks below with talks you'd like to hear

We should come up with an alternative way for newbies to add talks they want to hear, since AFAIK only members of rails-oceania can edit the wiki.

Subtitle: How we're pissing off beginners and how we end up frustrated teaching them

A 20min talk on a side project three of us started that makes editing content on sites quick and easy, that anyone can do.

The side project is about:

1. Edit your content directly from your own site, on the page where it appears!
2. Keep your message in sync across sites, regardless of where they are hosted or which technology they run on.

I will talk about:

• How we plan to simplify editing content online
• The underlying technologies and how we use them. This includes:
  • Rails
  • KnockoutJS
  • Test automation
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment

The Monty Hall Problem is the name of a mind bending probability problem that flies in the face of common sense intuition.

I'll attempt to live code a simulation to prove that everyone's common sense sucks ;)

But hey, livecoding! I'll fail to write even the most basic Ruby live and you can all have a jolly entertaining good laugh.

In this talk, I like to explain how ruby threads work compared to other languages and also the main gotchas.

Level of complexity: Beginner, Intermediate

A bit of a summary of how you might build an app with Sinatra to (mostly) escape the hold of Rails.

I'll show examples from the app I've been building at work: An API backing an iOS app and an ember backoffice interface.

So you've decided to be a developer? Well now we need to get you all set up to make you productive and most importantly – look cool.

Some handy tips, tricks and tools for running or surviving in a distributed team

An introduction to the local, open source, ROR project Detention Logs and how it has shown us that even the very basics of ROR can be extremely powerful.

This is a proposal for a rorosyd lightening talk

I'd like to give a talk on docker

Presentation request. Congratulations! You've acquired your first programming job! Now what? What's involved, and how do you work effectively when you don't know everything?

A talk about how we model and represent things like "nothing" or "it worked / it didn't work", and what fancy things we can do with them when do.

(The next part of the ongoing "how do we try to make sure our stuff doesn't break" series, wherein Rob looks more and more haggard with every talk.)

PS: This is the first submission I've made without saying hi beforehand. Is this the queue for consideration?
PPS: Intermediate tag, please.

Quick lightning talk on new stuff coming in RSpec 3.3

This is the talk where I lay out some kind of grand plan for what we do over the holiday period to have a kick-arse rorosyd website for next year.

There will be something for everyone:

• Cultural treatise
• Technical exploration
• Gifs
• That thing where the speaker goes off on a wildly irrelevant rant
• Questions!
• A rousing call to arms.

I think the title speaks for itself.

In the age of APIs and microservices seeing what is happening over the network is going to be a massive time saver. This talk is going to demo using ruby_inspector to gain visibility over what your app is doing

I want to give a quick talk about the importance of mentorship and how it relates to training and hiring. I'll give some quick reasons on why this important and things you can do. I feel it's relevant because we have lots of new people entering our community and industry and we should be supporting them properly.

I've presented this talk before to smaller groups, a lot of them have said that it makes it clear how Rubyists can do things like hexagonal architecture and why it can help.

After the talk you'll have a better idea of how to:

• Avoid fighting your framework
• Do TDD without any crazy hacking
• Have super super fast tests
• Have much better code reuse and portability

I did six months of Rails back in 2007, six years of Ruby, and now I'm returning to Rails, in the commercial sector.

This talk describes what it's like making the change before I forget what life was like pre-Rails.

I'm in an unusual position, as I have experience of programming in Ruby, but am somewhat new to Rails.

This talk could result in a lot of discussion (or at least I hope it does!). Some of the topics I touch upon may be similar to #26 by Jack Watson-Hamblin.

A draft of my talk is available at https://www.slideshare.net/secret/K9bbnp8eAFiRZF . I haven't checked with my employer whether it's ok with my talk, but I don't see any reason they wouldn't be.

Oh, hi. So, I thought maybe you give me a 5 minutes lightning talk slot the next week, and I'll show a very little known trick how to make a rails app to load several times faster in the dev env.

Livecoding! It's gonna be awesoooome! You know you wanna see some magic with threads and stuff

As an old fart in the Rails world, we often try to one-up each other with mind-bendingly complicated presentations about how amazing our 733t coding skillz are.

I want to do the opposite of that.

I'd like to show some simple, elegant solutions to problems encountered by newcomers to the Ruby world, informed by battle-tested deployments in the real world.

I'll collect some scenarios from junior devs I work with, but would really appreciate some feedback on this before the next ROROSyd.

So, if you're a junior, or work with some, send me your most vexing questions, problems, and things that drive you nuts. I promise I'll get you sorted, or triple your money back.

Lightning talk for tonight 12/05/15. Some tips and tricks when using capture match in Ruby

A quick lightning talk on how to remove a common test smell.

The new hotness from Google that builds on new HTML5 components can give you super simple and powerful reusable components for your apps.

I have a talk sketched out which steps through the path taken to implement EventMachine with ssl/TLS.
With the recent security foci, TLS is a 'warming' issue.
So too is the rise of nodeJS alleged performance advantages.
With the release of Ruby 2.2, there are performance opportunities.
Some of which have been factored into the recent EventMachine releases.
Do I need more in a description here?

I've done a presentation of "WebSocket in Ruby on Rails" on RORO 11-02-2013. Time to revisit it after 2 years with Rails 5 ActionCable.

Was thinking to talk on July's RORO but will need 15 minutes of it so probably better move it to presentation on August....

Component based architecture is complementary to good object oriented practices and uses namespaces, test driven development and Ruby gems to gradually define a Rails application boundaries and enforce an internal dependency structure.

I'll go trough some points of my primer article http://teotti.com/component-based-rails-architecture-primer/

Quick presentation on how we collect and analyse large amount of data on Jobseeker.com.au.

Where do you start with VIM? What are the best ways to maintain productivity whilst learning? What are the best resources?

Banal subtitle: "What Blocks, Procs and Lambdas Are and What They Are Useful For."

(For the May meetup. beginner and intermediate, please. The uses may get a little advanced, but I'll keep it accessible to newbies as well if I can at all help it.)

(I am not very good at creative talk titles.)

Some apps that use a database can accidentally cause havoc if two visitors use that app at once. This talk aims to point out some common problems and how to deal with them. This talk will not include any pictures of cats.

This talk will take 15 minutes.

GA student wanting to give a quick preview on an app that automates/and/or provide a dynamic tutorial for database design in Rails for beginners.
The app allows user to use visual representation of database flow and structure and returns a step by step guide on how to set up the basic crud system. Automated database generation based on User design may be discussed subject to completion by next Tuesday.
I am still very new at ruby as I have only started Ruby coding for two weeks. However, I do believe that a proper tutorial system will definitely help newbies such as myself improve productivity and understanding of Rails.

https://ottadd.herokuapp.com/

Is currently still under development but has basic functionality. The site is alittle unstable and incomplete at the moment but will be ready by Friday.
Also I apologise for having the user to create a login. It was part of the requirement of our project.

Well, for those who are sick of concatenating strings for browsers all day long, thought maybe I could come over and show ruby where people don't use ruby normally. Video games!

I'd like to show how to build a kick ass game with ruby and gosu; and maybe inspire someone to have some fun with ruby outside of web.

[BLIP]WARNING[/BLIP] life hacking and heaps of fun are imminent!

Well, the last submission was Lotus in 15' but since it is kinda useless, I'd like to change the topic to how to build a backend API with Lotus Framework.

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