For years, React has been the go-to choice for building frontend applications
— but is it always the best solution? In this talk, I’ll share my journey from
working extensively with React to discovering Hotwire, a radically different
approach that enables dynamic applications without heavy JavaScript or complex
state management.
Rather than a theoretical comparison, I’ll walk through real-world examples,
demonstrating how I’ve implemented interactive features using Hotwire. I’ll
also discuss my experiences, the challenges I faced, and some surprising
discoveries along the way.
AI has many applications in our industry, we are just getting started #
AI has many applications in our industry, we are just getting started.
In this talk, I’ll explore an approach to AI-powered observability
tooling that knows everything about you and your codebase.
I’ll demo some of the most recent tooling in AI-assisted development,
show you how to enrich an LLM with highly relevant contextual information and
display a little workflow that shows how to use AI to fix bugs faster as
they happen in production.
When the talks come to an end we’ll decamp to a local pub for some food, some
drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more
informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the
meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
The venue has a hard limit of 50 people. If you register and realise you can’t come, please use TicketTailor to give up your
ticket so someone else can come in your place. We might be able to let in
people on the night who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
A review on what makes OOP such an effective paradigm to work in, followed by a critical discussion on some of the newer design trends in the Ruby space. We will discuss the concerns of relying too heavily on these patterns, and alternative approaches.
In this talk, I recount and discuss how I refactored some legacy ruby code using the Simple Design Dynamo and ideas from “Tidy First” to make it more agile, and then, using Domain-Driven Design, take that agility to the next level.
When the talks come to an end we’ll decamp to a local pub for some food, some
drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more
informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the
meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
The venue has a hard limit of 60 people. If you register and realise you can’t come, please use TicketTailor to give up your
ticket so someone else can come in your place. We might be able to let in
people on the night who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
Our February meeting is our annual event devoted to short talks of no more
than 10 minutes.
We have space for at least 1 more talk, and it is our most popular event of the year. So, if you have been on the fence about giving a talk, there is no better opportunity than this. To put yourself on the map, email us at talks@lrug.org
Rails 8 + AI = Happy Life for Lazy Engineer to Create a Walking Skeleton #
Zhiqiang Bian says:
In this talk, I’ll explore how Rails 8, combined with AI-assisted
tools, can help engineers rapidly spin up a walking skeleton—a minimal
yet functional end-to-end system—with minimal effort.
Ruby is a high-level language, and there’s a general assumption that
it’s ill-suited to low-level shenanigans. But is this true?
In this lightning talk I’ll introduce some basic Ruby tools for
accessing low-level system features, concentrating on *nix platforms,
and see if it’s possible to replicate tenderlove’s Never Say Die gem
for recovering from segfaults.
Sustainability is important, but it’s also hard, especially when
building web projects. How do you know you’re doing it right? This
quick talk will explain a tool I made for self-assessments against the
Web Sustainability Guidelines, which you can use too!
When the talks come to an end we’ll decamp to a local pub for some food, some
drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more
informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the
meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
The venue has a hard limit of 75 people. If you register and realise you
can’t come, please use eventbrite to give up your place so we can someone
else come in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night
who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
We are going to look into the essence of what DDD is and why it came to
be in plain English, without any consultant lingo. We will also
evaluate its advantages, indicators of the possibility of successful
adoption, and reasons to do so.
When the talks come to an end we’ll move to a nearby pub for some food, some
drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees. Usually when we’ve visited Canva this has been The George & Vulture on Pitfield Street.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more
informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the
meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
The venue has a hard limit of 150 people. Even with such a high number, if you
register and realise you can’t come, please use TicketTailor to give up your
ticket so someone else can come in your place. We might be able to let in
people on the night who haven’t registered, but we can’t guarantee it.
