Ruby Central Courses

Hiring is Not Hazing

Discover effective tech hiring practices, including inclusive assessment methods, crafting great interview questions, and improving your company's recruitment process.

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

Enough Coverage To Beat The Band

Explore Ruby's coverage measurement techniques to boost confidence in your code before production and analyze live code usage, enhancing your development process.

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

The State of Ruby 3 Typing

Exploring RBS in Ruby 3: A new feature supporting type checker development. Learn about its implementation, benefits for gem developers, and how to prepare your gems for RBS compatibility.

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

Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Expert

Explore the concept of expertise through the lens of an autistic developer, examining its evolution, dangers, and impact on career development.

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

The Bug that Forced Me to Understand Memory Compaction

Explore Ruby's memory management, from heap allocation to garbage collection and memory compaction, through a bug-solving journey in a gem maintenance story.

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

Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7

Strategies for upgrading large-scale Ruby applications to version 2.7, including handling deprecation warnings, performance improvements, and maintaining open-source dependencies.

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

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