Ruby on Rails PDX Monthly Meetup

Our day of "Rusty Ruby!"

“The Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide for New Rustaceans” :: Programming is an adventure, often more harrowing than it has to be. If you're more used to higher-level languages like Ruby or JavaScript, learning Rust can feel like an impossible journey that leaves you wishing for a well-written and heavily illustrated field guide.

~ By Liz Baillie[@_lizbaillie]

"Bridging Ruby and Rust" :: Ruby is not the fastest language in the world, there is no doubt about it. This doesn't turn out to matter all that much – Ruby and its ecosystem has so much to offer, making it a worthwhile tradeoff a lot of the times. However, you might occasionally encounter workloads that are simply not suitable for Ruby. This is especially true for frameworks like Rails, where the overhead wants to be as little as possible. In this talk, we will explore building a native Ruby extension with Rust to speed up parts of Rails. What does Rust have to offer here over plain-old C? What kind of challenges would you run into when briding a dynamic langauge like Ruby with Rust? Let's find out! Speaker Godfrey Chan is a member of the Rails core team and a co-author of Helix, a toolkit for implementing Ruby classes in Rust. He works at Tilde Inc, splitting his time between building Skylight and open-source consulting.

~ By Godfrey Chan [@chancancode]

Schedule

6:30pm : Doors Open

We are stoked to have PIZZA this time! Please come hungry! Thank you Airbnb!

7:00pm : Event Starts

9:00pm : Shut Down

After the event shuts down, we will travel to the Fox and Hounds 1 block away for beers. They have a pool table and a solid appetizer menu.

Host Policy

Please make sure your meetup account has a first and last name. Our host requires this to pre-register you prior to arrival. If you have any concerns adding your full name, please reach out to an organizer and we will add you to the list manually.