We are a Ruby group located in Boulder, Colorado and the surrounding area. We hold once a month meetups .
On the second Wednesday of each month we hold Presentation Night The schedule is linked below.
Join Us!
Presentation Night Meetup Videos
September 2024
VIDEO
Being A Senior Engineer | Full Talk
By Jesse Spevack from Stripe
Slides
August 2024
VIDEO
Using Amazon S3 Buckets with Rails | Lightning Talk
By Kyle Brackman from Accelant
May 2024
VIDEO
Being an early engineer at a startup - Boulder Startup Week May 2024 Panel | Full Talk
By Bekki Freeman | Chase Gray | Kasey McCurdy | Elnaz Moshfeghian. Moderated by Marty Haught
April 2024
VIDEO
Using No-code to augment traditional web applications | Full Talk
By Bekki Freeman | Chase from Ownify
March 2024
VIDEO
Atraction Mailbox - Why I Love Action Mailbox | Full Talk
By Cody Norman, Independent Rails Consultant
January 2024
VIDEO
How to make your application accessible (and keep it that way!) | Full Talk
By Joel Hawksley of Github
November 2023
VIDEO
Enhancing LLMs with Retrieval Augmented Generation | Full Talk
By Andrei Bondarev of Langchain.rb
Slides
October 2023
VIDEO
By Bekki Freeman from Ownify
September 2023
VIDEO
Generative AI and the Future of Programming for Rubyists | Full Talk
By Scott Werner from Sublayer
July 2023
VIDEO
Let's Learn More About Turbo by Deconstructing My Help Desk-Like Rails App | Full Talk
By Andy Peters from Doorkeep
May 2023
VIDEO
Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD | Full Talk
By Mel Kaulfuss from Buildkite
April 2023
VIDEO
How I commit, with Lazygit | Lightning Talk
By Ryan Stemmle from SOFware
VIDEO
Introducing Bridgetown | Full Talk
By Jeremy Hinegardner of Dojo4
March 2023
VIDEO
Composing a Flexible Dev Environment with Docker Compose Full Talk
By Spike Ilacqua from Praecipio Consulting
VIDEO
Composing Micro-Frontends w/ Rails & (JS) Friends | Lightning Talk
By Tim Tyrrell from Brandfolder
February 2023
VIDEO
Hotwiring reCAPTCHA | Lightning Talk
By Ben Randolph from Ownify
VIDEO
Ruby Function Composition | Full Talk
By Brooke Kuhlmann of Alchemists
January 2023
VIDEO
The devise_saml_authenticable gem | Lightning Talk
By Rylan Bowers from Benefix
VIDEO
Accessible by Default Full Talk
By Joel Hawksley of Github
November 2022
VIDEO
Panel on Ruby, Rails and Web development job market and career advice. | Full Talk / Panel
Panelists:
Robyn Purvin, Partnership Manager at Turing
Kyle Lamy, VP of Engineering at Maxwell
Jerry Ramey, Mobilize CTO and co-founder
Marty Haught, Director of Engineering at Hashicorp
October 2022
VIDEO
BulmaFormRails Gem: Easy Pretty Forms For Non-Designers | Lightning Talk
By Kevin Weller from Modern GeoSystems
VIDEO
Sauté until cooked through: Infrastructure as Code using Chef and RubyLightning Talk
By John Best
March 2022
VIDEO
How we made our Ruby App Concurrent Golang Style! | Full Talk
By Sudhindra Rao from JFrog
February 2022
VIDEO
You light up my life: How quantum physicists are leveraging light to break through to the next level of quantum computing | Lightning Talk
By Akira Brand
VIDEO
Breaking up the bundle | Full Talk
By Joel Hawksley of Github
January 2022
VIDEO
The Yield Keyword in Ruby | Lightning Talk
By Antonio King
VIDEO
OpenTelemetry for Rubyists | Full Talk
By Francis Wang of NYC.rb
March 2021
VIDEO
From ruby-ist to javascripter: A self-taught journey | Lightning Talk
By Akira Brand from Emeritus Education
VIDEO
Ruby Pattern Matching | Full Talk
By Brooke Kuhlmann of the Alchemists
February 2021
VIDEO
GitHub Buddy | Lightning Talk
By Taylor Phillips
VIDEO
Crystal for Rubyists | Full Talk
By Kirk Haines
January 2021
VIDEO
A Certain Swagger | Lightning Talk
By Zeke Clark
VIDEO
View Components In The Wild | Full Talk
By Joel Hawksley from Github
November 2020
VIDEO
Learning to Love Writing Tests | Lightning Talk
By Sienna Kopf from Turing
VIDEO
Rails!? Still!? | Full Talk
By PJ Hagerty from DevRelate.io
October 2020
VIDEO
Hacking Stacks | Lightning Talk
By Tim Kleier from ASRC Federal
VIDEO
Modern interviewing panel | Full Talk
By Paul Christopher / Patrick Armentrout / Brooke Kuhlmann
September 2020
VIDEO
GraphQL Federation | Full Talk
By Julian Ramlal
July 2020
VIDEO
Ethics and programming - A simple light framework for developers | Lightning Talk
By Kevin Glynn
VIDEO
AMA w/ Brad Feld from Foundry Group | Full Talk
By Brad Feld from Foundry Group
June 2020
VIDEO
Alone Together: the Neuroscience of Connection and the Limitations of Digital Presence | Lightning Talk
By Daniel Frampton
VIDEO
it { should be a_good_talk } | Full Talk
By Paul Sadauskas from TextUs
May 2020
VIDEO
Don't @ me! Instance Variable Performance in Ruby | Full Talk
By Aaron Patterson from Shopify
April 2020
VIDEO
Design Patterns: The Key to Refactoring Rails MVC | Lightning Talk
By John Travers
VIDEO
Migrating Rails from Heroku to AWS | Full Talk
By Carleton DiLeo from Algoly
March 2020
VIDEO
Thinking Inside the Box: Checklist-Driven Development | Lightning Talk
By Andrew Ek
VIDEO
Evolution of a Cloud Native Architecture | Full Talk
By Mike Gehard
January 2020
VIDEO
Milestoner | Lightning Talk
By Brooke Kuhlmann
VIDEO
Encapsulating Views | Full Talk
By Joel Hawksley of Github
November 2019
VIDEO
How we Teach Human Bias to Machines, and What To Do About It | Full Talk
By Ursula Moreno-Vanderlaan from Techtonic
October 2019
VIDEO
How we deliver software at Brandfolder | Full Talk
By Brett Nekolny - Head of Engineering @ Brandfolder
VIDEO
Rails API performance and sparse fields | Full Talk
By Logan Sears - Technical Product Manager & Sr. Software Engineer @ Brandfolder
August 2019
VIDEO
Better Service Objects With Dry-Transaction | Full Talk
By Paul Sadauskas from Textus
April 2019
VIDEO
Taking Lead | Full Talk
By Marty Haught
February 2019
VIDEO
Move Fast and Break Things | Full Talk
By Josh Thompson
Presenting
We are always looking for speakers for the Boulder Ruby meetup. Presentations are expected to either be 15-35 minutes long with questions, or a 5-10 minute lightning talk. Topics can be either anything rubyish/rails or software development. (We've had presentations on k8s, machine learning and interviewing, for example.) See above for more examples of past presentations.
It's a friendly group. Audience is typically 15-40 folks depending on topic/speaker. The audience experience level varies from "I just graduated from Turing" to "I help run railsconf".
If you are not in the Denver/Boulder area, we have the equipment for a remote presentation (Zoom or Google Hangouts).
Tweet us or contact Dan Moore at mooreds+boulderb@gmail.com to discuss speaking, or if you have more questions.
Resources / Things We Like