About us
ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in Chicago and in the surrounding suburbs.
Interested in sponsoring a meetup, giving a talk, or have an idea for a meetup? Please reach out and we can set something up!
ChicagoRuby is sponsored by:
[Underabuck.com](https://underabuck.com/) - A swag shop (built with Ruby!)
Join us on Slack! We created a #chicago-ruby channel within Ruby Central Community Slack channel. Please contact the current organizers to get an invitation to the community Slack channel (if you are not a member of the Slack channel already).
The ChicagoRuby motto: When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen!
We want to hear from you!
Interested in speaking but unsure what to talk about? Interested in hearing a specific topic. We have compiled a list of potential topic ideas that members of the community are interested in learning more about.
See: this google spreadsheet for potential talk topic ideas.
For moderation purposes, this spreadsheet is only available for comments and admins will add ideas from comments onto the list.
Reach out to Michelle (michelle@zooniverse.org) if you have any questions.
Upcoming events
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ChicagoRuby @ Paypal/Braintree
Braintree Payment Solutions, 222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL, USOur Host:
Paypal/Braintree - For over 25 years, PayPal has revolutionized global commerce with innovative experiences that make shopping, selling, and sending money simple, personalized, and secure. We empower consumers and businesses in nearly 200 markets to thrive in the global economy.Speakers:
🎤 Joel Hawksley (remote) - Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path!
You’re at senior, but you’re hungry for more. What’s next? In this talk, we’ll attempt to define the staff role and help you decide if it’s a good fit for your career.About Joel: Joel is a staff software engineer at GitHub, working on the health of the GitHub.com Rails monolith.
🎤 Tyler Ewing (in person) - Your Business Workflows Are Invisible But They Shouldn't Be
Every Rails app has critical business processes hiding in plain sight: scattered across background jobs, boolean columns, and callback chains that no one can fully trace. In this talk, we will live-refactor a realistic onboarding workflow from tangled, implicit logic into an explicit, readable pipeline, showing how treating workflows as first-class objects transforms your ability to debug, observe, and reason about what your app is actually doing.About Tyler: With over a decade of experience in Ruby, Tyler Ewing runs his own shop that created and maintains Ductwork: a Ruby workflow framework. He lives on the north side of Chicago.
Location:
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza STE 800, Chicago, IL 60654Location Details:
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No walk-ins allowed (every attendee must be registered)
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Building security also requires in person attendees to register through this link:
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Register/RSVP with your First + Last name
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ID required for checkin
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Light snacks and refreshments will be provided, BUT NOT DINNER, please plan your meal accordingly.
Important meeting notes:
We request in-person attendees to fill out this Registration Form https://forms.gle/oKbX26tQXDNBhBdH6 so we can accommodate any dietary restrictions and folks who may bring guests.For remote attendance:
Join us via the following Zoom URL.We want to hear from you!
Interested in speaking but unsure what to talk about? Interested in hearing a specific topic? We have compiled a list of potential topic ideas that members of the community are interested in learning more about.
See: this google spreadsheet for potential talk topic ideas.
For moderation purposes, this spreadsheet is only available for comments and admins will add ideas from comments onto the list.
Reach out to Michelle (michelle@zooniverse.org) if you have any questions.37 attendees-
ChicagoRuby @ AlphaSense
AlphaSense, 200 N La Salle St #1100,, Chicago, IL, USOur Host:
AlphaSense is a leading AI-powered market intelligence and search platform designed for financial and business professionals, offering a major hub and office in Chicago, IL. Following their acquisition of Tegus, they provide extensive expert transcripts, broker research, and company filings, with a significant hiring presence in the city.Speakers:
🎤 Hilary Stohs-Krause (in person) - What rock climbing taught me about programmingSo many tech folks rock climb that it feels like the setup to a joke: “How many coders does it take to ascend Mt. Everest?”
Turns out, scaling mountains and scaling databases aren’t all that different. In this talk, we’ll explore 10 lessons from rock climbing and how they can be applied to coding.About Hilary: Hilary Stohs-Krause is a senior software engineer at Zscaler. She volunteers regularly with several tech and community organizations, including as an organizer for Madison Women in Tech and board member for Forward Fest, Wisconsin's largest tech and entrepreneurship festival.
She loves board games and bourbon barrel-aged stouts. She’ll read any fantasy or sci-fi she can get her hands on.🎤 Ifat Ribon (in person) - Yes, &…: Ruby’s Secret Talent for Improvisation
Did you know Ruby is an improviser? With its ability to take blocks at will, Ruby lets methods pass the conversation to blocks that happily accept what’s given and add to it. This talk explores blocks, procs, and lambdas as Ruby’s way of saying “Yes, and…”, with playful examples, surprising behavior, and joyful chaos along the way.
About Ifat: Ifat is a Principal Architect at LaunchPad Lab in Chicago. She enjoys untangling complex problems, finding the right words for hard things, and helping teams make confident technical decisions. She’s a big fan of good abstractions, long runs along the lakeshore, and finding the signal in the noise.
Location:
200 N LaSalle St #1100Location Details:
- No walk-ins allowed (every attendee must be registered)
- Register/RSVP with your First + Last name
Important meeting notes:
We request in-person attendees to fill out this Registration Form https://forms.gle/oKbX26tQXDNBhBdH6 so we can accommodate any dietary restrictions and folks who may bring guests.For remote attendance:
Join us via the following Zoom URL.We want to hear from you!
Interested in speaking but unsure what to talk about? Interested in hearing a specific topic? We have compiled a list of potential topic ideas that members of the community are interested in learning more about.
See: this google spreadsheet for potential talk topic ideas.
For moderation purposes, this spreadsheet is only available for comments and admins will add ideas from comments onto the list.
Reach out to Michelle (michelle@zooniverse.org) if you have any questions.8 attendees
Past events
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