<div dir="ltr">Taking off my organiser hat for a second here are some topics / questions of my own:<div><br></div><div>- what's new & exciting in rails 7.1 ? It could be a big feature or something small that makes your life easier (I for one are happy that exclusion constraints are now in!)</div><div>- were you one of the lucky few that had a ticket to railsworld? What interesting ideas did you pick up?</div><div><br></div><div>Fred</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 8:47 AM Frederick Cheung <<a href="mailto:frederick.cheung@gmail.com">frederick.cheung@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>We do now have one talk confirmed for November, but we are looking for more talks for November, December, January - you get the idea. </div><div><br></div><div>Our yearly lightning talks meeting (February) is also not too far away, where we'll be looking for 8 short talks (5-10 minutes): the perfect opportunity to stand up, say your bit and sit down before anyone has a chance to disagree. As always we'd love to have you whether it's your 1st time or you'r a grizzled veteran<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can provide a friendly audience, tips/rehearsals if you'd like them, and thanks to our recent survey, ideas for topics too: </div><div><br></div><div>- Development tools and tips for productivity</div><div>- Going through real bugs that were difficult to identify or fix</div><div>- How to migrate an existing large application from webpack/webpacker to another tool in deployable stages</div><div>- How ActiveRecord Arel works, when you should be using it directly and how to safely escape manually built queries with it</div><div>- If Rails was built from scratch today, what APIs might be chosen to be built differently</div><div>- ActiveStorage - how/if to use it in more complex production cases. Particular curious about validation of files, using stimulus to power direct uploads/image editing etc that goes beyond the sketches in the rails guide.</div><div>- AI and ruby - how to create and use an AI model for text classification using as much ruby as possible</div><div>- Event modeling - All the up and down sides of working from modeling stage through to delivery of an application using event modeling</div><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure many of us have stories / opinions on these (unless I'm the only one creating bugs I then have a hard time fixing) - we'd love to hear them. (We're also also all ears for more topics: keep them coming on the mailing list or on <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16DlW1luHhYP6M5ctXwW_Rsa3rNYrUj5Sx99-XPCVW-4" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16DlW1luHhYP6M5ctXwW_Rsa3rNYrUj5Sx99-XPCVW-4</a> )</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Fred & the LRUG organisation team</div><div><br></div></div>
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