Ruby Central Courses

Coaching through Coding

Discover strategies for coaching and mentoring through everyday coding activities, expanding beyond traditional one-on-one conversations to support team members' career growth.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Mach 2.0 at Scale

Explore the race to build supersonic passenger planes, focusing on Concorde's success. Learn about engineering challenges, international competition, and lessons in compromise and constraints.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Screaming Zombies and Other Tales - Race Condition Woes

Explore race conditions in concurrent systems through real-world stories, including the "Screaming Zombies" bug. Gain insights on building robust systems and analyzing potential vulnerabilities.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Future Should Be Uneven

Explore how to build inclusive technology that empowers users through customization, accessibility, and universal design. Learn to create infrastructure supporting diversity and individual needs.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How Prime Numbers Keep the Internet Secure

Explore the role of prime numbers in internet security, covering encryption methods and implementing RSA encryption using Ruby. Gain insights into HTTPS and data privacy.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Automation Engineering with Serverless Compute

Automate tedious processes using Ruby in serverless functions. Learn object detection, event triggers, and static site generation while exploring problem-solving techniques for overcoming challenges.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Explore Ruby's evolution with creator Matz, covering compatibility, performance, concurrency, static typing, and future developments in this insightful keynote.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Tracking COVID-19 with Ruby

Explore how programmers can aid epidemiologists by gathering and analyzing COVID-19 data using Ruby, web tools, and expressive code to make complex information understandable.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Automatic GC Compaction in MRI

Explore automatic GC compaction in Ruby 2.7, its implementation challenges, and techniques like read barriers and concurrent GC. Learn about memory optimization and performance improvements in Ruby applications.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Humble Hash

Explore Ruby's hash functionality, from basics to advanced techniques. Learn to leverage hashes for concise, performant code and discover surprising features of this versatile data structure.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Ractor Demonstration

Explore Ruby 3's Ractor feature for thread-safe concurrent programming. Learn its powers and limitations through interactive demonstrations with expert Koichi Sasada.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Mentorship in Three Acts

Discover effective mentorship strategies for team growth, covering three stages of program integration and methods to engage hesitant teams. Learn to create a structured system that enhances skills and culture.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Taylor's Guide to Big Rewrites

Insights on successfully rewriting a large application, applying Taylorism principles to software development, and managing complex projects with a small team.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Upgrading the Ruby Community

Explore strategies to enhance the Ruby community's impact, from salary transparency to unions, building on its welcoming and supportive foundation.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How We Implemented Internal Salary Transparency - And Why It Matters

Explore the implementation of internal salary transparency, its benefits, challenges, and impact on workplace trust and satisfaction through a real-world case study.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk