Ruby & Rails meetup

The world of development is really huge and it would be unfair to stick only to Java or JavaScript stuff, leaving a large part of developers behind the scenes.

Welcome “Ruby” – the language which was build for "developer happiness" and productivity :) And also welcome “Rails” – still one of the most popular and convenient framework for building web applications.

Talks will cover two topics, which are really important nowadays – adopting Rails for the world of modern frontend applications and making the Rails backend solid and maintainable.

If you are a Rails or JavaScript developer and look for the ways how to improve your code or organize your frontend workflow, you are more than welcome to join this meetup.

18:30 – Gathering

19:00 – Architecture & dependency management in Ruby/Rails v2.0, Pavel Forkert.

A couple of years ago Ruby and Rails veterans started to notice that the "Rails-way" sometimes leads us to rotten unmaintainable code with tests that take SO long to run. Usually it's even easier not to run them.

Almost every developer (not only Rubyists) sooner or later gets to the point when it seems that a complete rewrite is the best way to go.

Sometimes rewrites succeed but more often the new rewritten application starts to rot again.

In this talk I will share why it happens, how to (at least partially) avoid that and what you will not be able to find in books about programming.

Pavel (@fxposter (https://twitter.com/fxposter/)) is a DevOps engineer in Wix. In the past he was a commiter in Travis CI and a lot of other open-source libraries. Over the last few years he worked on many different projects: from infrastructure-related ones to Single Page Applications. He tries to keep up with the pace of backend/devops-technologies as well as the frontend stuff. He likes Ruby, Go, Clojure and JVM. He is also interested in Rust.

20:00 – Break

20:15 – Front end Choices. Should we be building our user interfaces the "Rails Way”?, Alex Coles.

Rails was born in 2004, the time of the "Ajax revolution". At that time it brought extremely cutting edge technologies to the front end. Is the "Rails Way" still relevant to web application fronts end in 2013? Next-generation JavaScript MVC frameworks have exploded on the scene, and have a great deal to offer. If we do use Angular or Ember, how do we best make them work with Rails? This talk will also explore which toolchains work best for the latest JavaScript frameworks.

Alex Coles (@myabc (https://twitter.com/myabc/)) is a web developer and Rubyist, unabashedly wearing the hat of "generalist". He is active in the Berlin community, having founded the annual eurucamp camp/conference.

P.S. Alex will stay in Dnepropetrovsk for some time. So we are inviting our fellow Ruby community to join us for a beer at “3 Legs (https://foursquare.com/v/3-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8/53be997f498ef20ed96bfc7c)” pub after the meetup.