The Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote with DHH is now online. Watch it here.

Agenda

Rails World was two full days of keynotes, technical sessions, workshops, food, and fun. All sessions were recorded and will be published soon.

Wednesday

Sept 25

Thursday

Sept 26

Friday

Sept 27

08:30 - 10:00

Doors Open

10:00 - 11:00

Opening Keynote - The Myth of the Modular Monolith

Eileen Uchitelle, Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

11:15 - 11:45

SQLite on Rails - Busting myths and supercharging the One-Person Framework

Stephen Margheim, Rubyist, Web Developer

11:15 - 11:45

Demystifying some of the magic behind Rails

Ridhwana Khan, Lead Software Engineer & Writer,

11:45 - 13:00

What to do in the breaks

13:00 - 14:15

The Modern Pro­gram­mer’s Guide to Neovim and Zel­lij

Chris Power, Founder, Typecraft - Robert Beene, Founder, Typecraft

13:00 - 13:30

Making the best of a bad situation - Lessons from one of Intercom’s most painful outages

Miles McGuire, Staff Engineer, Intercom

13:00 - 13:30

Pushing the boundaries with ActiveStorage

Andrea Fomera, Senior Software Developer, Soundstripe

13:45 - 14:15

Making accessible web apps with Rails and Hotwire

Bruno Prieto, Programmer, 37signals

13:45 - 14:15

Prepare to tack - Steering Rails apps out of technical debt

Robby Russell, CEO, Planet Argon

14:45 - 15:15

The Rails Boot Process

Xavier Noria, Rails Core, Zeitwerk

14:45 - 15:15

Testing Integrations - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Julia López, Senior Software Engineer, Harvest

15:45 - 16:15

Empowering the Individual - Rails on AI

Obie Fernandez, Author of The Rails Way, and Chief Scientist

15:45 - 16:15

Level up performance with simple coding changes

David Henner, Staff Engineer, Zendesk

16:30 - 17:30

Closing Keynote

Aaron Patterson, Rails Core & Senior Staff Engineer, Shopify

18:30 - 22:00

Shopify Closing Party