WindyCityRails 2012 Lightning Talks

From WindyCityRails 2012

Notes

PowerEnum

by Arthur Shagall

• At same company as Mike Sandler (TMXCredit)
• ActiveRecord with slug lookup, basically
• Something[:foo] gives you an ActiveRecord instance

External Links

• Gem: power_enum

Build your next app using Meteor

by Yuriy Dybskiy

• Live coding, created a simple demo app in under 1 minute

External Links

• Meteor official site
• Demo App
• Slides
• Security in Meteor

PgPower: Rails Postrges for Power Users

by Mike Sandler

• At same company as Arthur Shagall (TMXCredit)
• Schema dumping becomes hard when doing migrations with raw SQL
• PgPower helps out; augments the migrations DSL

External Links

• Gem: pg_power

Under the C: Ruby C Extensions

by Mike Laurence

Why?

• Low level C libs
• Faster

Why not?

• Documentation kinda sucks
• Intimidating
• etc

How much work for a C extension?

• extconf.rb, mkmf (happens as a part of the gem install)
• Ruby-to-C interface (Ruby provides a lib)
• Do some type conversion, etc

External Links

Slides

Coding Without Electricity

by Kyle Crum

• In Burma
• Very little technology penetration
• "Lemons and all that"
• "Libraries and books... weird"

Tips for life:

1. Do something scary hard
2. Fix the problem -- do what you need to and move on
3. Look up (from your computer)