RailsConf 2024

Detroit, MI, United States • May 07-09, 2024

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RailsConf is a yearly conference held in the United States and features 49 talks from various speakers, including keynotes by Nadia Odunayo, Irina Nazarova, John Hawthorn, and Aaron Patterson.

Overview Talks Speakers Schedule Sponsors CFP

Day 1 - Tuesday (May 07, 2024)

08:30 - 09:30

Registration & Breakfast

09:30 - 09:50

Introduction

09:50 - 10:50

Keynote: Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team

10:50 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Youssef Boulkaid

So writing tests feels painful. What now?

How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-End

Hilary Stohs-Krause

Supporter Talk by Revela: Scenic Views: Using the Scenic Gem to Leverage Database Views in ActiveRecord

John DeSilva, Grant Drzyzga

11:45 - 12:00

Break

12:00 - 12:45

Look Ma, No Background Jobs: A Peek into the Async Future

Manu Janardhanan

Ruby on Fails: effective error handling with Rails conventions

Talysson Oliveira Cassiano

How to make your application accessible (and keep it that way!)

Supporter Talk by Shopify: Meet the Shopify Engineering Team

Aaron Patterson, Betty Li, Gabi Stefanini, Eileen M. Uchitelle, Gannon McGibbon, Adrianna Chang, Nikita Vasilevsky, Jenny Shen, George Ma, Andy Waite, Andrew Novoselac

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:45

Crafting Rails Plugins

What's in a Name: From Variables to Domain-Driven Design

Ruby & Rails Versioning at Scale

Supporter Talk by Gusto: Gusto Spark Sessions - Lighting Talks by Gusto Engineering

Ivy Evans, Junji Zhi, Gusto Engineering Team

14:45 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:45

A Rails server in your editor: Using Ruby LSP to extract runtime information

Plain, Old, but Mighty: Leveraging POROs in Greenfield and Legacy Code

From Cryptic Error Messages To Rails Contributor

Supporter Talk by Cisco Meraki: You Could Learn a Lot from a Dummy

Fito von Zastrow, Kevin Hurley

15:45 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:45

Save Time with Custom Rails Generators

Riffing on Rails: sketch your way to better designed code

Kasper Timm Hansen

Implementing Native Composite Primary Key Support in Rails 7.1

Nikita Vasilevsky

Supporter Talk by Weedmaps: Local Dev Automation & Orchestration

16:45 - 17:00

Break

17:00 - 18:00

Keynote: Startups on Rails in 2024

18:00 - 18:05