🎤 A React on Rails Story 🎤 Progressive Enhancement 🎤 A Better Tech. Interview

In light of the GORUCO Conference happening on June 24th 2017 and previous meetup cancelations we will be having a surprise meetup!

GORUCO is also offering $100 off to members of the NYC Ruby community specifically as a way of saying thank you for making the community so strong for so many years. Discount code will be RUBYNYC

Food Status: 🍕 Pizza 🍻 Beer

🎤 Front-End Sadness to Happiness: The React on Rails Story - Justin Gordon

Standard Rails development made me happy like no other programming paradigm in my career. Simple front-end development with standard Rails and a sprinkling of jQuery was 'OK' Then, in 2014, I had to build a front-end that dynamically updated like a desktop app. I knew there had to be something better, and I went down the rabbit hole of integrating React with Rails using Webpack. Come find out how my obsessive pursuit of “developer happiness” for the Rails front-end eventually drove me to start the React on Rails gem, the most popular integration of Rails with React using Webpack.

Aloha! Inspired by the Ruby on Rails Community, Justin began blogging on

http://www.railsonmaui.com

. A burning desire to bring happiness to Rails front-end development led to the open source project React on Rails. Besides open source, he’s the founder and CEO of

http://www.shakacode.com (http://www.shakacode.com/)

and

https://www.friendsandguests.com

. Justin has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Free Time: Surfing and other sports in Hawaii!

🎤 A Better Technical Interview - Sam Jonester

A response to (rightfully) grumpy tweets about how technical interviews are ineffective. Candidates shouldn't be afraid that a technical interview won't reflect their true abilities. They should feel that an interview valuable even if the decision is "Not Yet".

Let's make a valuable interview by setting better expectations and creating better evaluation techniques.

Let's make an honest interview by asking instead of assuming, and treating candidates like they'll be treated on the team.

Let's make a collective interview by encouraging dialog and testing a candidate's to teach, learn, and work with teammates.

Let's make a nice interview by ensuring the process is valuable to the candidate even if they're not yet ready to join the team.

🎤 Does Progressive Enhancement have a place in today's Web? - George Brocklehurst

Single page Web apps are everywhere these days. Is Ruby now just a language of APIs? Is there even an alternative?

Maybe there is: Progressive enhancement is a technique for iteratively improving user experience by starting with a simple HTML document, and progressively adding enhancements with CSS and JavaScript.

This talk will explore the benefits of progressive enhancement, how it compares to single page apps, and its place in today's Web.

George works at thoughtbot in NYC. When he's not building progressively enhanced Web apps, he can usually be found reading about space exploration, playing Go, or exploring the city.