Past Events

Lightning Talks Meetup

June 18, 2019 - 18:00

Bus.com, 4200 St-Laurent, Suite 610

Right before summer, let's have some lightning talks! We will limit the night to 3 lightning talks. To have better chances of having yours accepted, submit it before Tuesday here: https://montrealrb.com/talks/new

Doors will open at 6PM and the meetup starts at 6:30.

FAQ

  • Who? : Everyone who is interested in technologies, programming and Ruby on Rails or Ruby
  • How much?: It's free
  • Register?: No need, just come, you're welcome
  • Questions?: Contact Sophie ([email protected]) or tweet @montrealrb

Talks

The crystal language, an ode to ruby, by Timothee Clain and Nicholas Gelinas

Talk level: beginner

The crystal language is a statically-typed, compiled, and ruby-like language with terrific performance.

While still young, it could be the next ruby with enough love and interest, capitalizing on the fact that its learning curve is quasi null for any decent rubyist.

This talks will outline the current state of the language, its advantages, drawbacks and perspective.

About Timothee Clain and Nicholas Gelinas

pyx4 http://tclain.github.io

Avid Learner. Educator. Artist


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February meetup

February 26, 2019 - 18:30

Notman House, 51 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, 3e étage


Talks

Background jobs at scale, by Kerstin Puschke

Talk level: intermediate

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/titanoboa/background-jo...

Slow requests to third party payment gateways or sudden spikes in image uploads make background jobs crucial to scaling applications. However, they require us to think differently about failure scenarios: we give up consistency guarantees, and we can’t be certain if or when a job will succeed. In this talk, you’ll learn how to get the started with background jobs, master the challenges they're posing, and how they are used at Shopify to scale one of the largest running Rails applications.

About Kerstin Puschke

Shopify

Kerstin is a software developer at Shopify’s HQ in Ottawa. She’s exhilarated to transform Shopify’s massive Rails code base into a more modular monolith, building on her prior experience with distributed microservices architectures. Before moving to Canada, she helped organize the Hamburg Ruby user group and her local Rails Girls chapter.


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Code night

January 15, 2019 - 18:30

La Gare, 5333 Casgrain avenue

Organizing regular meetups is a huge commitment and is very time consuming. I am so grateful to the people who prepares a talk for other passioned rubyists. I wasn't able to find a speaker with a talk ready that is available this month, so we will do a code night.

Bring your laptop and we'll do some challenges together. Professionnals and hobbyists of all levels are welcome.

Please note that I've made the decision to not replace a regular meetup by a code night in the future. Finding a speaker is the hardest part of the job so I prefer to keep my energy finding great talks and organize quality events. A meetup will officially be scheduled once the talk is confirmed.

If you'd like to submit a talk for a future event, you can do it there: https://montrealrb.com/talks/new

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December Coding Meetup

December 18, 2018 - 18:30

Benelux Wellington, 4026 Wellington St, Verdun, QC H4G 1V3

It is now a tradition, in december we get together to help people get started with Ruby or Rails!

We do have a few things to improve on the website if you want a project to work on, you can also try the Advent of Code for another kind of challenge, or bring your own project!

We need people of all levels to have a great coding night!


November Meetup

November 14, 2018 - 18:00

Shopify, 490 Rue de la Gauchetiere Ouest

This will be a special joint edition of Montreal.rb and Papers We Love


Talks

How not to structure your database-backed web applications, by Marina Chirchikova

Talk level: intermediate

Marina will present an overview of this paper by Yang et al., focusing on how these principles apply to Rails applications and go over different examples, followed by a discussion.

https://hyperloop-rails.github.io/220-HowNotStructure.pdf

About Marina Chirchikova

Marina is a software developer working at Shopify.


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