Wellrailed March - Namespacing and favourite tools

Wellrailed meetups are back for 2024! As usual, we'll listen to some talks then share some pizza and a drink together!

Everyone is welcome - whether you're just starting out or a seasoned professional! While we're primarily a Ruby/Rails meetup, many of the topics will be applicable to all tech stacks.

Host
A massive thank you to the team at Flick Electric are hosting us and providing food and drinks!

We'll be meeting at the waterfront offices of Flick's neighbour and parent company - Z Energy.

Flick Electric shakes up the electricity market in Aotearoa and makes things better for Kiwis, their wallets, and the planet. They're putting pressure on the Electricity Authority and Government to fix the broken market.

Talks

• Namespacing by Mathew Hartley, a Senior Engineer at AMP.
  Ever struggled to manage the codebase of a complex Rails application, or wondering how you could keep a codebase clean and modular as it grows?
  I want to cover intentionally modularizing your Rails applications without needing to depart from the majestic monolith. We'll go over what it's like using packwerk+packs to build out new contexts/namespaces for a Rails app without needing to split out separate services as an application gets more complex.
• Share your favourite tools - Instead of a second talk, this time we are giving everyone an opportunity for a few minutes of evangelizing for your favourite tool that makes your development experience more pleasant.
  It could be a command line tool, an IDE plugin, a gem, whatever.
  Slides are welcome if you'd like, but so are live demos and off the cuff talking.

Q&A
In 2024 we won't always have a Q&A with the host company - but if you have questions for the Flick team they'd be more than happy to answer them on the night.

Schedule
Doors open at 5pm and we'll kick off at 5.20pm.

• Introduction
• Job Openings
• First talk
• Second talk
• Food + Drinks

Talk recording
If you can't make it, the talks will be recorded and will be available on the Wellrailed YouTube channel.

We won't be live streaming this event but we aim to get the recording available within a few days.

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About Wellrailed
Wellrailed is a Wellington based Rails meetup which has been part of the Rails community for over 10 years! Wellington is home to many companies who use Ruby on Rails so we're doing bi-monthly meetups hosted by a different company.

This is your chance to learn some stuff, network with your peers and learn more about how various local companies use Rails!

If you're interested in doing a talk or hosting an event, please get in touch with co-organisers Jordan Crawford or AJ Esler via Meetup.com or via the RubyNZ Slack.

Code of Conduct
At Wellrailed events we expect attendees to follow the Ruby NZ code of conduct - see ruby.nz/code-of-conduct