Talks

Talks and demos worth knowing about from Ruby's history.

• "How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" (DHH, 2005)

  The demo that launched Rails, and a generation of Ruby programmers.

• "Programming with Nothing" (Tom Stuart, 2011)

  Tom Stuart rebuilds numbers, booleans, and a whole running program in Ruby using nothing but procs.

• "Wat" (Gary Bernhardt, 2012)

  Four minutes of programming comedy that everyone has seen.

• "Y Not? Adventures in Functional Programming" (Jim Weirich, 2012)

  Jim Weirich derives the Y combinator live in Ruby, and makes one of computer science's hardest ideas feel like a gift.

• _why's RailsConf 2006 Keynote

  The keynote that was part code, part comedy, and part live band. Probably the most _why thing ever to happen on a conference stage.

• How to Crash an Airplane (Nickolas Means, 2015)

  A RubyConf talk with almost no Ruby in it: the true story of a doomed flight, told to teach software teams how to work together.