We are a Ruby Meetup group and hold twice a month meetups in Boulder, Colorado.
On the second Wednesday of each month we hold Presentation Night .
Coding Night is held the fourth Thursday of every month.
Join Us!
Presentation Night Meetup Videos
February 2023
VIDEO
Hotwiring reCAPTCHA | Lightning Talk
By Ben Randolph from Ownify
VIDEO
Ruby Function CompositionFull Talk
By Brooke Kuhlmann of Alchemists
January 2023
VIDEO
The devise_saml_authenticable gem | Lightning Talk
By Rylan Bowers from Benefix
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 (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