December 2021 Meeting
The December 2021 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 13th of December, from 6:20pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
Full registration details are given below, and please do note that the zoom meeting url is only sent to registered attendees, so please do make sure you do it.
Agenda
Enough coverage to beat the band
Kevin Murphy says:
The lights cut out. The crowd roars. It’s time. The band takes the stage. They’ve practiced the songs, particularly the covers. They’ve sound checked the coverage of the speakers. They know the lighting rig has the proper colored gels covering the lamps. They’re nervous, but they’ve got it all covered.
- LRUG December 2021 - Kevin Murphy - Enough coverage to beat the band
- Presentation Resources
- Blog post: Ruby's Got You Covered
When ActiveRecord meets CTE!?
Johnson Zhan says:
CTE (
Common Table Expression) is one of the ways we handle complicated SQL queries. However, ActiveRecord does not support CTE directly so I used to write some raw SQL to implement CTE. Now, I found there is a useful gem calledactiverecord-ctewhich makes things different.
Finding, hiring and onboarding junior Ruby developers
Alex Balhatchet says:
The Ruby community in London has a huge number of junior developers, largely thanks to bootcamps like Le Wagon and Makers Academy. This talk describes my experiences finding, hiring and onboarding junior devs. The aim is for the hiring managers in the room to feel more confident hiring junior devs for their teams, and for the junior devs in the room to feel more confident asking for support and learning opportunities.
Afterwards
It's been nearly 2 years of this and we still haven't worked out a good replacement for hanging out in the pub after the meeting. That said we leave the zoom call running for a little while after the talks for folk to chat. We encourage the speakers to hang around too if they can, so you can ask them questions you weren't able to during the meeting, or that you felt were too niche to share with the wider group. If you've got any ideas for something better, then please do let us know at organisers@lrug.org. Thanks!
Registration
Prior to attending you must familiarise yourself with our README paying particular attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees, even though we float on screens like so many tiny programming postage stamps.
Secure your place
Our Zoom meetings are artificially constrained by our miserly purses, so you need to register via eventbrite to secure a place. We only send the link to the zoom meeting to people who have registered. It goes out around about 6pm on the day of the meeting, so keep an eye out for it and check your spam just in case.
Give yourself a head-start by downloading the zoom client (lol, as if you don't already have it).
Posted by Alessandro Proserpio on Nov 28, 2021