RubyConf Talks & Presentations

Ruby Central

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

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Just-in-Time Compiling Ruby Regexps on TruffleRuby

Explore TruffleRuby's innovative approach to just-in-time compiling Ruby regular expressions, achieving up to 40x faster execution through finite-state machines and cross-language optimization.

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

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Black Swan Events in Open Source - That Time We Broke the Internet

Explore unexpected events in open source history, their impact on technology, and lessons learned for future ecosystem resilience and sustainability.

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

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This Is Not a Talk About Airplane Crashes

Explore aviation safety principles and their application to human-technical systems through fascinating accident case studies and valuable lessons for collaborative work environments.

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

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The Algorithm Ate My Homework

Explore ethical implications of AI decision-making through a Talmudic lens. Examine ancient case laws to draw parallels with modern AI challenges and spark crucial conversations about responsibility.

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

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Improving CVAR Performance in Ruby 3.1

Explore class variable inheritance, performance issues, and optimization in Ruby 3.1. Learn about cache design, benchmarking, and the impact on real-world applications.

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

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Async Ruby

Explore Async Ruby's innovative approach to concurrency, its impressive features, and core concepts. Learn how this powerful gem can revolutionize web requests in your Ruby projects.

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

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Why Did We Rewrite Our Main Product Four Times

Scaling an appointment reminder system: challenges, iterations, and lessons learned from rewriting a product four times to handle millions of weekly notifications.

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

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Parallel Testing with Ractors - Putting CPUs to Work

Explore parallel testing with Ractors in Ruby 3, comparing strategies and building a test framework from scratch. Learn advantages and limitations of Ractors for test parallelization.

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

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Rswag - Automated API Documentation

Discover how Rswag automates REST API documentation, ensuring accuracy and consistency between docs and endpoints, making APIs more accessible to engineers.

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

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Debugging Product Teams

Explore techniques for identifying and addressing issues within product teams, focusing on observation, hypothesis formation, and targeted interventions to improve team dynamics and performance.

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

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Perceptual Learning - More Ruby Experts?

Explore Perceptual Learning techniques to accelerate Ruby expertise, enhance pattern recognition, and develop intuition for more effective programming skills.

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

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Railsbench - Rdoc Generation - Microbenchmarks - Proposal to Enable VWare Resizing Objects - Shrinking RVALUE

Explore Ruby's memory optimization project to improve performance by moving system heap memory into Ruby heap memory, reducing allocations and enhancing CPU cache efficiency.

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

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Optimizing Partial Backtraces in Ruby 3

Explore Ruby 3's optimized partial backtrace generation, its impact on debugging efficiency, and the process of enhancing this feature for improved performance in deep callstacks.

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

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Dungeons and Collaboration - A Player's Handbook to Working With Distributed Teams

Discover how Dungeons & Dragons principles can enhance collaboration in distributed teams, improving online etiquette and team-building skills for developers.

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