February 2025 Meeting
The February 2025 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 10th of February, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
This month we're hosted by the lovely folk at Funding Circle in their offices, on Queen Victoria St. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
Lightning Talks!
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
AI tools for programmers
fell sunderland says:
Why I don't use AI programming tools, and I don't think you should either.
Why our schema files kept changing
David Lantos says:
Tale of an investigation why a local
db:schema:loadwould change ourdb/schema.rbfor seemingly no reason. Spoiler: varchar index
10 years of RSpec in 10 minutes
Jon Rowe will share:
a brief look into the history of RSpec and a glance into the future.
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.
Never Say, Never Say Die!
Eleanor McHugh says:
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.
The tags tale
Jaehurn Nam says:
How we refactored Intercom's conversation tagging service to not fake tag and made customers happy.
Beyond current state: capturing how and why things changed
Yevhenii Kurtov says:
Introduction into managing state for objects with complex lifecycle when auditability is a must.
Self-Assessing against the Web Sustainability Guidelines
James Smith says:
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!
Afterwards
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.
Venue & Registration
Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.
Secure your place
Hopefully you all remember that physical meetings involve finite space and so to be guaranteed entry you need to register via ticket tailor.
Venue
The address of the venue:
Funding Circle
71 Queen Victoria St
London
EC4V 4AY
See on a map
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.
Posted by Alessandro Proserpio on Jan 15, 2025