One of the highlights of switching to a hybrid format at #ChicagoRuby?
Getting to know folks like Steven Ancheta, who regularly joins us remotely, and then bumping into him in person at #SinCityRuby
Curious to join us too?
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Next event: May 7 (registration required)
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Day 2 at SinCityRuby wrapped — great talks, cool people, and a ton of ideas to take home Prarthana Shiva | From schema-based multi-tenancy to single schema with UUIDs The real (and very real-world) story of: 💡 Starting the architecture with schema-based multi-tenancy 💡 How does such an approach turned into 200,000+ tables and 700,000 relationships (tables + indexes) during rapid scaling 💡 Consolidating everything into a single schema with UUIDs + row-level identifiers to maintain tenant isolation Irina Nazarova | The Relevance of Ruby in 2025 💡 Release of Ruby LLM 💡 A Y-Combinator partner advocating for Ruby on Rails 💡 One of the biggest companies that plan an IPO in 2025 (Chime) is written in Ruby on Rails 💡 Just some of the many successful startups choosing Rails: Sixfold, Vendo, Goodbill, Openpay, Sperity Health, Sublayer, Quepid from OpenSource Connections, Cactus (YC X25), Tramline, wawa fertility, Clipflow from Greeff Consulting, V360, Ordinal, Luthor, Scholarly Software, CorePilot, TRMNL, Hent, Chat with Work, CashU Fintech, Equip, TestSkills. Niki Swett ⚡️ Came in with an unplanned lightning talk. Ended up saying exactly what needed to be heard. Jason Charnes | Job Security through Vibe Coding 💡 “That wasn’t a talk to learn anything” 😂 💡 Live AI coding, a slot machine, and a reminder that fun is still part of the craft. Chris Oliver | Demystifying Hotwire 💡 The full Hotwire breakdown: Turbo Drive, Turbo Frames (includes Custom Element and iFrame-like containers), Turbo Streams (includes Custom Element, Content-Type, Websockets, Tag Builder), Stimulus and Native (includes iOS, Android) 💡 8 core Turbo Stream actions: append, prepend, replace, update, remove, before, after, refresh 💡 When to use: full redirect vs Turbo Stream vs Frame vs Refresh vs Morph vs Replace 💡 Gotchas and how to solve them 👉 What to learn more about Hotwire? => https://learnhotwire.com/ Dave Thomas | A 53-Year Journey in Engineering 💡 Started coding in 1972 (!), when connection speeds were 110 bps 💡 First gen languages: Simula, APT, Marco-11, Prolog, SQL, pic, XSLT 💡 Then came Ruby, Elixir, Unison… ❗️His prediction? The future is functional programming — with clouds of functions, triggered by pattern-matching, evolving immutable state 🤑 35% off his latest book “Simplicity” at pragprog.com with code: SinCityRubyRails or simplicitySinCity Huge thanks to Jason Swett and his wife, Niki, for making this event possible. Shoutout to our sponsors – you're the real MVPs: Cisco Meraki – the biggest Rails shop you’ve never heard of Judoscale – autoscaling that just works Evil Martians – the go-to team for devtool startups Cedarcode – pragmatic, expert software delivery Offsite – the stress-free way to plan team retreats #Ruby #Rails #RubyOnRails #RubyCommunity #LasVegas #SinCity #SinCityRuby
I'm here for my first-ever Sin City Ruby — and yes, it also happens to be the last one of this series. All the more reason to make the most of every moment!
I can't wait to connect with fellow Rubyists, share stories, and celebrate everything that makes our community so special.
Any suggestions on "must-do" activities in Vegas if you have just ~24 leisure hours?
#RubyOnRails #Ruby #SinCityRuby #TechCommunity #LasVegas #FromChicago
Thank you all for coming to my talk and asking great questions! Here my slides for: Stuck in the Tar Pit! 🦨
https://speakerdeck.com/etagwerker/stuck-in-the-tar-pit-at-sin-city-ruby-24
Feel free to reach out with more questions later! ❤️
I’m a big fan of being okay with duplication and not abstracting things too quickly.
Often times code duplication gets flagged as a code smell, but it’s not. Do not blindly trust what reek tells you.
“Duplication is not always bad.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Anton Tkachov
Ernesto
