September 2026 Meeting
The September 2026 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 14th of September, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm). The venue this month is provided by GoCardless and is in their offices, on Goswell Road. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
Syncing from a non-Rails app with Multiple Database Connections
Jade Dickinson says:
Rails supports scaling applications with multiple databases, but did you know you can also use them to connect to any database and query it using ActiveRecord? I’ll talk about the process of syncing data from a non-Rails app to our Rails monolith in order to sunset an old system. I will elaborate by explaining how I designed a sync mechanism that could run quickly and continuously, mapped information across database schemas, and the decisions I made to make it understandable, observable and easy to operate.
Dockerless Ruby Deployments
Ayush Newatia says:
Self-hosting is all the rage these days. Join me as I discuss everything hosting, from setting up and securing the server, to zero-downtime and blue-green deploys. All this without Docker, and using just Bash commands.
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:
GoCardless
Sutton Yard
65 Goswell Rd
London
EC1V 7EN
See on a map
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 place so we can someone else come in your place.
Accessibility info for the venue
The venue is full accessible & there are accessible toilets
Posted by Alessandro Proserpio on Aug 12, 2026