RailsConf 2024

Detroit, MI • May 07-09, 2024

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

Talks Speakers Schedule

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

Nadia Odunayo

10:50 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Ask your logs

Youssef Boulkaid

So writing tests feels painful. What now?

Stephanie Minn

How to Accessibility if You’re Mostly Back-End

Hilary Stohs-Krause

Supporter Talk

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!)

Joel Hawksley

Supporter Talk

Supporter Talk by Shopify: Meet the Shopify Engineering Team

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

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:45

Crafting Rails Plugins

Chris Oliver

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

Karynn Ikeda

Ruby & Rails Versioning at Scale

George Ma

Supporter Talk

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

Andy Waite

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

Sweta Sanghavi

From Cryptic Error Messages To Rails Contributor

Collin Jilbert

Supporter Talk

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

Kevin Hurley, Fito von Zastrow

15:45 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:45

Save Time with Custom Rails Generators

Garrett Dimon

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

Supporter Talk by Weedmaps: Local Dev Automation & Orchestration

Brad Leslie

16:45 - 17:00

Break

17:00 - 18:00

Keynote: Startups on Rails in 2024

Irina Nazarova

18:00 - 18:05

Closing Day 1

Andy Croll