Name: Philly.RB Gem Day
Start: 2017-04-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-04-18T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Drama Fever

Come to PhillyRBs first Gem Day to hear short talks from several speakers who will share exciting tales of their most useful or exciting Ruby Gems.

Doors open at 6pm, talks will start at 6:30pm

VCR - Mike Dalton (https://twitter.com/kcdragon_)

Overview of the VCR gem which is used to cache http requests while running tests. Practical examples will be provided.

Webpacker - Rob DiMarco (https://twitter.com/iotr)

Rails 5.1 rolls out with built in Webpack integration through the webpacker gem. I'll go in to how to install and use the gem.

Rack - Ernesto Tagwerker (https://twitter.com/etagwerker)

Many Ruby developers use Rack, but don't interact with it or know how it works. We'll look at how we all use it and the middleware available for rack-based applications.

Shoryuken - David Roberts (https://twitter.com/DrobTravels)

Shoryuken allows your Ruby on Rails application to easily integrate with AWS Simple Queueing Service (SQS) for background job processing using ActiveJob. We'll learn about how to get it setup, and how this makes it convenient to interact with other (ruby or not) services.

zero_downtime_migrations - Rob DiMarco (https://twitter.com/iotr)

When creating migrations, it is easy to create a migration that will run smoothly in production but cause downtime when running in production. The zero_downtime_migrations gem minimizes the risk of this happening.

--------------

Special thanks to Drama Fever for providing the space and eLocal for providing the food.

We are also actively looking for speakers for the Spring and Summer. Please contact phillyrb@drob.net if interested.

David Roberts

Philly.rb

Technology

Ruby

Ruby On Rails

Open Source

Test Driven Development

Software Development

Object Oriented Programming

Beginner Web Developer

Ruby On Rails Testing

Web Application

Sinatra Ruby Framework

Philly.RB Gem Day

Drama Fever

Share

Philly.rb

Philly.RB Gem Day

Philly.rb

Details

Members are also interested in