The document summarized the sessions from RubyConf 2014, providing an overview format with 4 questions for each session attended: What was expected, why it was chosen, what it actually was, and what was learned. Key topics included Matz's keynote on Ruby 3.0, promises in Ruby, concurrency tools, metaprogramming techniques and mistakes, Ruby idioms, optimization, and talks on Elixir, Volt, Jubilee and more. Lightning talks provided entertainment and gems to check out.

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12. PAT T E R N S

13. PAT T E R N S
• Concurrency, asynchronous
• Promises in Ruby
• Letting Concurrency Help you Today
• A World WIthout Assignment
• Ruby development
• Strong Duck Type Driven Development
• Ruby Idioms You're Not Using Yet
• Your Bright Metaprogramming Future: Mistakes
You'll Make ( and How to Fix Them)
• Rsense knows your code
• Going the Distance
• Perf
• Deoptimizing Ruby
• Smalltalk Influence
• Ruby Changed My Life
• Kids, Ruby Fun!: Introduction to SmalRuby and the
Ruby Programming Shounendan
!
• For the Future
• Ruby After Rails
• Rubyists, have a sip of Elixir!
• 6 Reasons Jubilee could be a Rubyist's best friend
• Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt
• You Just see them
• Matz Keynote
• Lightning Talks
• Questions for Matz

14. O V E R V I E W F O R M AT
• 4 questions
• What I thought it was?
• Why I picked it?
• What it actually was?
• What I got out of it?

15. M AT Z K E Y N O T E
• What I thought it was
• Matz Keynote
• Why I picked it
• You always see what Matz has to say
• What it actually was
• Possible future direction of Ruby including type checking
• What I got out of it
• A glimpse of Ruby 3.0

16. P R O M I S E S I N R U B Y
• What I thought it was
• The benefits of promises applied to Ruby
• Why I picked it
• Looking for better of tackling sequential workflow with independent parts,
more clearly
• What it actually was
• The history of a Promises lib written by Constant contact
• What I got out of it
• possible Ruby lib

17. L E T T I N G C O N C U R R E N C Y H E L P Y O U
T O D AY
• What I thought it was
• Tools and concepts for Concurrency in Ruby
• Why I picked it
• Concurrency is one of Ruby's weak spots
• What it actually was
• Overview of concurrency
• What I got out of it
• Overview of concurrency

18. S T R O N G D U C K T Y P E D R I V E N
D E V E L O P M E N T
• What I thought it was
• Adapting Duck typing to larger systems
• Why I picked it
• We want to be able to build large systems w/Ruby
• What it actually was
• Cool development story showing the value of Go interfaces, and intro to
the lawyer gem
• What I got out of it
• Some ideas for enforcing contracts

19. R U B Y I D I O M S Y O U ' R E N O T U S I N G Y E T
• What I thought it was
• New Ruby Idioms I don't know
• Why I picked it
• Always improve
• What it actually was
• Several idioms
• What I got out of it
• Several idioms

20. D E O P T I M I Z I N G R U B Y
• What I thought it was
• New optimization technique for Ruby
• Why I picked it
• Ruby is slow
• What it actually was
• Heavy talk on how the deoptimization works
• What I got out of it
• Hope for an even faster future JRuby

21. Y O U R B R I G H T M E TA P R O G R A M M I N G F U T U R E :
M I S TA K E S Y O U ' L L M A K E ( A N D H O W T O F I X T H E M )
• What I thought it was
• Metaprogramming mistakes and how to fix them
• Why I picked it
• Always improve
• What it actually was
• Techniques and tips
• What I got out of it
• Techniques and tips

22. R U B Y A F T E R R A I L S
• What I thought it was
• What to do after Rails dies
• Why I picked it
• Looking at the future
• What it actually was
• Entertaining talk that Ruby isn't dead
• What I got out of it
• Entertainment, since I already drank the kool aid

23. A W O R L D W I T H O U T A S S I G N M E N T
• What I thought it was
• Functional Ruby primer
• Why I picked it
• Functional key to multi core
• What it actually was
• Basic SICP (Structure of Computer Programming) in Ruby
• What I got out of it
• Not so much, I already knew that stuff

24. R U B Y C H A N G E D M Y L I F E
• What I thought it was
• How smalltalk made a Rubyist's life complete
• Why I picked it
• Always looking to relearn the lessons of Smalltalk
• What it actually was
• His journey rewriting a game 4x
• What I got out of it
• Not as much as I hoped

25. R U B Y I S T S , H AV E A S I P O F E L I X I R !
• What I thought it was
• Elixir primer for Rubyists
• Why I picked it
• Elixir on my list of things to check out
• What it actually was
• Elixir primer for Rubyists
• What I got out of it
• Confirmation I should look at Elixir

26. R S E N S E K N O W S Y O U R C O D E
• What I thought it was
• Overview of how Rsense works
• Why I picked it
• Want to make rsense for Opal
• What it actually was
• Rsense overview and success story on becoming an Open Source Ruby dev
• What I got out of it
• A sense of how we'd do Rsense for Opal

27. L I G H T N I N G TA L K S
• What I thought it was
• Lightning talks
• Why I picked it
• Lightning talks rock
• What it actually was
• Lightning talks
• What I got out of it
• entertainment, some pointers on cool gems

28. G O I N G T H E D I S TA N C E
• What I thought it was
• Talk on distance algorithms
• Why I picked it
• Richard Schneems is a good speaker
• What it actually was
• over view on distance algorithms
• What I got out of it
• over view on distance algorithms

29. 6 R E A S O N S J U B I L E E C O U L D B E A
R U B Y I S T ' S B E S T F R I E N D
• What I thought it was
• The future of Ruby and Rails
• Why I picked it
• Coz I want to keep coding Ruby and Rails where possible
• What it actually was
• A talk about extending the future of Ruby/Rails via Jubilee/Vert.x with a live
multiplayer real time game
• What I got out of it
• That I apparently didn’t word it right, or that people don’t really care about being
able to continue to program in Ruby/Rails

30. K I D S , R U B Y F U N ! : I N T R O D U C T I O N T O S M A L R U B Y
A N D T H E R U B Y P R O G R A M M I N G S H O U N E N D A N
• What I thought it was
• Details of the smalruby editor
• Why I picked it
• Want to make smalltalk type tools for Opal
• What it actually was
• overview of the app, how it's built, how it's helping teach kids in Japan
• What I got out of it
• Some ideas

31. I S O M O R P H I C A P P D E V E L O P M E N T W I T H
R U B Y A N D V O LT
• What I thought it was
• Overview on Volt (opal framework for Ruby on front and backend, both meteor
and ember like)
• Why I picked it
• Been following it since it was being created, get a fresh overview
• What it actually was
• Compelling talk for isomorphic ruby
• What I got out of it
• continued inspiration, his explanation on why Opal is viable is better than mine

32. Q U E S T I O N S F O R M AT Z
• What I thought it was
• Q/A w/Matz
• Why I picked it
• Coz you go to it
• What it actually was
• Q/A w/Matz
• What I got out of it
• Not enough, Had to leave early

33. R E S O U R C E S
• All videos on Confreaks (via Youtube)
• http://confreaks.tv/events/rubyconf2014