Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Licensing and Distributing a Paid CLI With Ruby, Rails, and SwiftUI by Moncef Belyamani Distributing licenses and enforcing limitations for my "Ruby on Mac" CLI was a super interesting and fun problem to solve. It involved tools such as ruby-packer, shc, Apple's DeviceCheck API, and creating a .pkg installer. I'll take you on that journey with me, with lessons learned and code samples. You'll learn tactics for thinking through similar problems, and for writing testable code.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer? by Drew Bragg Welcome to the Ruby game show where contestants tries to guess the output of a small bit of Ruby code. Sound easy? Here's the challenge: the snippets come from some of the weirdest parts of the Ruby language. The questions aren't easy but get enough right to win a fabulous prize.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Let’s Extract a Class: The Single Responsibility Principle and Design Patterns by Jon Evans We’ll talk about going beyond “fat model, skinny controller” and the importance of following the Single Responsibility Principle. Several common design patterns will be discussed, but the emphasis will be on the importance of encapsulating your logic in whatever way you choose that makes the code readable and maintainable. Finally, how do you get your team on board?

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - A Return To Simplicity: Architect Hypermedia REST applications using Hanami + HTMX by Brooke Kuhlmann Have you grown tired of overly complex web applications with massive frontend and backend teams? What if you could do all of this with one team of Ruby engineers using only a Hypermedia RESTful design? Well you can and I'll show you how!

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Go Pro with POROs by Ifat Ribon Plain Old Ruby Objects (POROs) are having a moment. Maybe you’ve heard a whisper in the corner about the jack-of-all trades Service Object, or a glimmering echo of advocacy for non-database-backed domain models? Think you’re using them right? Afraid you’re using them wrong? Then this is the talk for you! We’re going to explore the wonderful world of “convention plus choose-your-own configuration” of Rails codebases and the shining role of POROs (with their ride or dies, the Module). Come hear about the diversity of design patterns out in the wild so you too can confidently tell your coworkers “let’s just use a PORO for that”.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Modularizing Rails Monoliths One Bite at a Time by Marc Reynolds As Rails monoliths grow, coupling becomes increasingly difficult to manage. Many have reached for hope in microservices but instead found higher complexity. The Modular Monolith approach is a proven, lightweight alternative that offers the benefits of enforced boundaries without being cumbersome. This talk proposes a phased approach to refactoring toward this style using the packwerk gem.

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - Lightning Talks 00:00 - The SuperSpreader gem by Ben Oakes 05:18 - First Follower by Melony Erin Franchini 09:08 - Building Broken Gems by Samuel Giddins 12:48 - Immutability in Ruby POROs by Eric Mueller 17:49 - This talk is called "The excited References, Extensions, Explorations Section to Marc's Talk." by Stephan 22:07 - Makefiles by Blake Gearin 25:14 - Code Coffee by Jeremy Hinegardner

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2023 - The pursuit of happiness. by Dustin Haefele-Tschanz Who in this world would say ‘no’ to being a little happier? Luckily for us there has been a lot of wonderful scientific studies done on human happiness. This talk will cover a number of my favorite studies in this field, and how they can be applied to life and careers in tech.