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Coraline Ada Ehmke

Your First Legacy Codebase

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Your First Legacy Codebase
Coraline Ada Ehmke • May 04, 2016 • Kansas City, MO

Your First Legacy Codebase by Coraline Ehmke

So you've just graduated from a bootcamp and you're starting your first real job in software development. You've got several Rails apps under your belt and you're excited to get started. But few jobs offer the opportunity to build new apps; it's much more likely that you will be part of a team charged with maintaining and growing a legacy application. How can you get started working on an aging codebase when the sum of your experience so far was with greenfield apps?

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RailsConf 2016

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RailsConf 2016

Opening Keynote

Hiring Developers, with Science!

Your First Legacy Codebase

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Stuck in the Middle: Leverage the power of Rack Middleware

I Can't Believe It's Not A Queue: Using Kafka with Rails

Rediscovering Active Record

Mario Alberto Chávez

Internships: Good for the Intern, Great for the Team

Pat Packet Visits Ruby Rails

Jeremy Fairbank

Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres

How We Deploy Shopify

Kat Drobnjakovic

Inside Active Job

Jerry D'Antonio

Booting Up: Hiring and Growing Boot Camp Graduates

Level-up Your Active Record Skills: Learn SQL!

Foreign API Simulation with Sinatra

Konstantin Tennhard

Pragmatic Lessons of Rails & Ruby in the Enterprise

The Rails Boot Process

Reduce Small-Team Culture Shock with Agile

From Zero to API Hero: Consuming APIs Like a Pro

3x Rails: Tuning the Framework Internals

Postcards from GorbyPuff

Making a Rails App with 140 Characters (or less)

Active Record vs. Ecto: A Tale of Two ORMs

Zen and the Art of the Controller

Storytelling with Code

Riding The Latest Rails for Charity

How Sprockets Works

Rafael Mendonça França

Testing Rails at Scale

Facepalm to Foolproof: Avoiding Common Production Pitfalls

Tweaking Ruby GC Parameters for Fun, Speed, and Profit

Excellence Through Diversity

Writing a Test Framework from Scratch

Closing Keynote: Skunk Works

Opening Keynote: UX, Rails & Awesomeness

Building Applications Better the First Time

Action Cable for Not-Another-Chat-App-Please

Jesse Wolgamott

Precompiling Ruby Scripts - Myth and Fact

Power up Your Development with RubyMine

Tatiana Vasilyeva

How to Get and Love Your First Rails Job

The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality

Rails 5 Features You Haven't Heard About

Quit Frustrating Your New Developers - Tips From a Teacher

From Excel to Rails: A Path to Enlightened Internal Software

Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard

James Edward Gray II

Frameworks for Feedback

Rebecca Miller-Webster

Turbolinks 5: I Can't Believe It's Not Native!

Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle

Packaging and Shipping Rails Applications in Docker

Introduction to Concurrency in Ruby

Managing Growing Pains: Thinking Big While Being Small

Secrets of Testing Rails 5 Apps

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Saving Sprockets

Richard Schneeman

Small Details, Big Impact

Yehuda Katz and Liz Baillie

5 Practical Ways to Advocate for Diversity

Can Time-Travel Keep You From Blowing Up The Enterprise?

RSpec and Rails 5

Justin Searls and Sam Phippen

Don't Forget the Network: Your App is Slower Than You Think

How Compose uses Rails to Scale Work, Now Open-Sourced

From Director to Intern: Changing Careers as a Single Mom

Lightning Talks

Tim Oliver, Patel Alun, Thomas Witt, Claudio B, Michael Hartl, Reid Morrison, Haley Anderson, Mike Virata-Ston, John Sawers, Matthew Nielsen, Adam Cuppy, Godfrey Chan, Justin Collins, Nadia Odunayo, Saron Yitbarek, Stephanie Nemeth, Jose Castro, Tianwen (Tian) Chen, Benjamin Fleischer, and Stephanie Marx

Opening Keynote: Make Rails Great Again

Aaron Patterson

Bridging The Gap Between Designers and Developers

Finding Translations: Localization and Internationalization

Valerie Woolard

Build Realtime Apps with Ruby & Pakyow

Step 1) Hack, Step 2) ?, Step 3) Profit

The State of Web Security

Continuous Visual Integration for Rails

Site Availability is for Everybody

Going Serverless

Your Software is Broken — Pay Attention

...But Doesn't Rails Take Care of Security for Me?

Make Them Click

How to Build a Skyscraper

Developing and Maintaining a Platform With Rails and Lotus

Simone Carletti

Crushing It With Rake Tasks

Will It Inject? A Look at SQL injections and Active Record

Style Documentation for the Resource-Limited

Rails to Phoenix

Brian Cardarella

Priming You for Your Job Search

Mark McDonald, MiMi Moore, Travis Hillery, and Kim Lambright

Turbo Rails with Rust

Real World Docker for the Rubyist

Get a Whiff of This

How We Scaled GitLab For a 30k-employee Company

Strong Practices for Rails Applications Continuous Delivery

Nathan Smith and Robb Kidd

Client/Server Architecture: Past, Present, & Future

Mike Groseclose

Closing Keynote: Data Mining Music

Ruby Hero Awards

Coraline Ada Ehmke, Akira Matsuda, Anika Lindtner, Laura Gaetano, Sara Regan, Koichi Sasada, Richard Schneeman, Avdi Grimm, and Charles Nutter

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