XO Ruby New Orleans 2025
2025-09-20
New Orleans, United States
who it's for
ruby developers, rails developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, developer experience engineers, security engineers
topics
HSB color ramps for dark mode; Tailwind dark mode theming; Jupyter/IPYNB README pages; tree-sitter code queries; Ray, Ruby LLM and Rafe gems; Rails 8 demo app integration; protocol buffers and gRPC with Envoy; Temporal durable workflows; PubSub-backed messaging; Sidekiq for retries; Active Record encryption; Brakeman, Dependabot and Bundler Audit
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Dark Art of Designing for Dark Mode | Glynnis Ritchie | 32m |
Practical rules and surprises: dark mode needs its own palette not a color inversion — don't invert colors — because brand hues shift (Stripe’s purple becomes… | ||
| The State of the Ruby AI Toolbox | Thomas Carr | 35m |
Catalogues three production-ready Ruby gems and explains what each actually does and how they plug into a Rails app. Demonstrates a Rails 8 demo app (SQLite… | ||
| If I had it to do again | Robert Ross | 49m |
FireHydrant rebuilds would lean hard on specific infrastructure choices: the Laddertruck Rails codebase grew to 440 public API endpoints (roughly 200 more than… | ||
| Readme.md? We Can Do Better | George Mauer | 34m |
Argues that README.md files become more useful when replaced or supplemented with executable Jupyter/IPYNB README pages that contain runnable cells, shell… | ||
| Do the Right Thing: Practical lessons for your.. | John Paul Ashenfelter | 33m |
A concrete path from Rails defaults to measurable compliance: generate a Rails 8.1 app, scaffold a secrets resource, encrypt content column with Active Record… | ||
| The Misconception About Models | Ryan Hageman | 25m |
Central claim: a model is a code representation of something outside your codebase, not a folder or pattern slogan. Examples use Rails/ActiveRecord, Sinatra… | ||
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