Notes Ruby's speed ceiling and upgrade gains.
About Ruby version upgrades.
Asks whether Ruby is the right language for this style of programming.
Petition advocates adding Ruby as a FaaS runtime.
Tour of Ruby language features around method invocation and procs.
Deep dive into Ruby internals (undef_method, ObjectSpace, memory behavior).
All implementations are in Ruby; discusses idiomatic Ruby (duck typing).
Argues Ruby could express scientific computing even better than Wolfram's stack.
Demonstrates Ruby features exposed by aggressive code golf
Frames mentoring partly as a response to claims that 'Ruby is dying' by growing the community.
Debates the perceived decline of Ruby versus its actual developer-count growth.
Makes the case that Ruby is a first-class language for data-management work.
Argues Ruby is a top language for data management work.
Refers to another famous speaker who 'fell in love with Ruby' after being a Java developer
Argues Ruby's low ecosystem threshold makes the automation gap especially costly.
Specific practices for Ruby production deployments.
Long-time Ruby developer, though critical of its object customization mechanics.
level: expert
Primary programming language.
level: expert
Normally develops backends in Ruby.
Experienced Rubyist since 2011–2012, comfortable reading Ruby source.
level: expert
Uses Ruby after 17 years and still uses it mostly as his tech stack.
level: expert
years: 17+
Self-describes as a Ruby guy with 12 years of experience.
level: expert
15 years of Ruby experience; gave a 10-year academic lecture series.
level: expert
Converted from .NET to Ruby two years before the talk and now works on a Rails app.
level: intermediate
13+ years of Ruby/Rails experience.
level: expert
Professional Ruby developer since 2007; previously a Java developer.
level: expert
mruby is a small embeddable Ruby interpreter.
Ruby gem extending method-reference syntax.
Language feature in Ruby.
Analyzes Ruby ObjectSpace heap dumps.
Built into Ruby's ObjectSpace module.
Behavior specific to MRI Ruby's garbage collector and heap management.
Implementation detail of MRI Ruby's method table and method cache.
Sorbet is a type checker for Ruby.
Interface added to Ruby 3.0 by Samuel Williams.
UringMachine brings io_uring to the Ruby language.
Runs inside MRI Ruby, inheriting GIL-related limitations.
Rails is written in Ruby.
Released as a Ruby gem; Pokrywka notes earlier Java attempts failed.
Mutant is implemented in and targets Ruby code.
Grazer is implemented as a Ruby gem.
Two years of Ruby at GitHub at time of talk.
Built as a Ruby gem leveraging Ruby's existing case-equality, pattern matching, and code-generation capabilities.