AGENDA

• 11.00pm: Introductions
• 11.20pm: The talk!
• 12.15pm: All done!
• 12.35pm: Code challenge and Networking

About the talk

The Modern Rails Blueprint: A Practical Look at Hotwire and Solid Gems
Desc:
Rails defaults have evolved over the last few versions to do away with json APIs, Javascript-rich frontends, Sidekiq/Resque and Redis/Memcached.
What are the replacements? How do they work? And how can you replace and start using them?
We shall be performing these upgrades on a boring Rails App to give it a fresh look!
Bio:
Francis Karuri (FH), is a Ruby on Rails developer with over 6 years of experience building scalable applications across ed-tech, health-tech and publishing sectors.
He is a Founding Engineer at Audemic, where stacks include Ruby on Rails, Stimulus, Turbo and leveraging AI systems to make research accessible.
Previously, he worked as a Ruby on Rails engineer at IGNTD where he helped perform stack upgrades, and React to Hotwire migrations on old applications.
He has a deep passion for elegant, seamless and poetic software.
Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francis-karuri/, https://x.com/fh_ndiritu, https://github.com/Fh-Ndiritu/

What is Nairuby?
Nairuby is a chapter in Nairobi under the African Ruby Community an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has a reach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.

The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exists between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to the global economy.
Nairuby brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, and open-source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.
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Nairuby is a chapter in Nairobi under the African Ruby Community an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has a reach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.
The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exists between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to the global economy.
Nairuby brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, and open-source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.