Security, ActionCable and Recurring Events

What We Talk About When We Talk About Web Security & Rails with Dan Schanler. This talk offers key takeaways for the web developer to use building secure applications, through Ruby on Rails specific examples. It will illustrate some of the top OWASP vulnerabilities, explain why they matter, and teach you how to prevent your code from getting exploited.

Recurring Events Should be Easy with Ross Kaffenberger. You've got NYC.rb marked on your calendar, right? NYC.rb takes place "on the second Tuesday of every month". How would you model that in Ruby? You could use Montrose (https://github.com/rossta/montrose), a new Ruby gem that makes working with recurring events easier. In this lightning talk, we'll introduce Montrose, how to use it, and what makes it better than the alternatives.

Getting Started With Action Cable with Hayley Anderson. What is Action Cable, besides the new feature of Rails 5 that everyone's talking about? And more importantly, how do you use it?