[LRUG] Lightning talk ideas for Feb

[Murray Steele]

Hi all,

Thought I might piggy back off Fred’s announcement about our Jan meeting to
encourage you all to come up with some talks for our February lighting
talks meeting.

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 22:37, Frederick Cheung via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> If you really want to tick off a new year's resolution early then there's
> still plenty of room to speak at February's Lightning talks' meeting -
> we're looking for up to 8 talks of around 5-10 minutes. It's the perfect
> opportunity to try your hand at speaking or float a new idea / hot take.
> Please drop us a line at talks at lrug.org if you're interested
>

Here are a few specific ideas that I thought would be easy talks to give
and this limbo between Christmas and Hogmanay is the perfect time for
exploring them:

* Ruby 4 is our Christmas treat from Matz Claus this year. What’s in it?
You could do a summary talk using
https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html as a starter, or you
could go deep on a single new feature like `Ruby::Box` or ZJIT or your
favourite.
* Minitest 6 is out (
https://zenspider.com/releases/2025/12/minitest-version-6-0-0-has-been-released.html)
and has “please don’t just blindly update particularly if you’re railsy”
vibe - what are the gotchas? Why might we be interested in upgrading - what
exciting new features are there?
* Hanami had a major release in late Nov and is worth exploring in a talk
on it either on its own merits or as a compare and contrast with rails
feels very timely.  The “state of the union” blog post
https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12/22/state-of-hanami-december-2025/ might
be a good start

Of course I’m sure you have plenty of your own ideas. What fun things have
you been up to in Ruby this year? Share them with us!

Cheers

Murray

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