- 2006 Chicago
- 2007 Portland
- 2008 Portland
- 2009 Las Vegas
- 2010 Baltimore
- 2011 Baltimore
- 2012 Austin
- 2013 Portland
- 2014 Chicago
- 2015 Atlanta
- 2016 Kansas City
- 2017 Phoenix
- 2018 Pittsburgh
- 2019 Minneapolis
- 2020 Your Couch
- 2021 Remote
- 2022 Portland
- 2023 Atlanta
- 2024 Detroit
- 2025 Philadelphia
"Resources on Rails"
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railsconf.org schedules from the internet archive do not refer to this as a keynote. Blogs and youtube description does. This was mentioned but not included in the Keynote of Keynotes talk.
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All I had for this one was an email message from Tim Bray:
I remember the content, there were 3 strong messages.
- I was working for Sun at the time; Sun was a co-sponsor of the conference, and I explained why; Sun was very Web-centric and at that time Rails was on an explosive growth trajectory and we wanted to sell the computers to support all those Rails websites. I got a big laugh by saying “If Ruby isn’t the world’s most efficient programming runtime, from our point of view that’s not 100% bad.”
- The Ruby & Rails community really needed to get their act together about supporting Unicode. At the same time, I made speeches at both RubyConf and RubyKaigi about this subject, had a couple of long talks with Matz and I claim a small piece of the credit for convincing the Ruby people to take Unicode seriously.
- I pointed out that the audience was almost all men, very few women, and asked them if they were OK with that and, if not, what they were going to do about it.
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"The Rails Way"
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"The Great Surplus"
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"Rails 3 and the real secret to high productivity"
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Speakers: Desi McAdam, Sarah Mei, Lori Olson
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Speakers: Jeremy Daer, Rick Olson, Michael Koziarski, Yehuda Katz, DHH
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"What killed smalltalk could kill Ruby too"
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"50 in 50"
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The recording is not from Railsconf, but since it's a scripted piece, it's likely the same or similar enough.
"Double Dream Hands"
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"Lessons Learned"
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"Craft, Engineering and the Essence of Programming"
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"Progress"
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"Simplicity Matters"
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"I've made a huge mistake"
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Speakers: James Edward Gray, Charles Max Wood, Josh Susser, David Brady and Avdi Grim
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"Patterns of Basecamp's Application Architecture"
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"Stables and Volatiles"
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This recording is not from Railsconf, but as far as I can tell the content is the same or incredibly close. He seems to have given this talk multiple times.
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All that I could find from this was a DM to Yehuda with the reply:
I think that's the one where I ripped up my entire talk overnight to deliver a rebuttal to DHH on Javascript. I haven't ever been able to find it, sadly.
"What happens to everyone when everyone learns to code?"
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"Ten Years!"
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"Humor in the Code"
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"All the Little Things"
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This talk wasn't a keynote but is generally regarded to be one of the best talks about Ruby & OO given at Railsconf, if not the best.
Speakers: Aaron Patterson, Santiago Pastorino, Godfrey Chan, Jeremy Daer, Guillermo Iguaran, and Andrew White. Hosted by Evan Phoenix.
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"The Aaron Patterson Memorial Keynote"
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"Rails Doesn't Scale"
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"The Future of Rails 6: Scalable by Default"
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"Livable Code"
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"Ethical Issues in the Law and Tech"
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"The Stories We Tell Our Children"
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"How we make good"
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Not a talk, interview
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"Technically a Talk"
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"Aaron's Variety Show"
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Not a talk, interview
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"All the Things I Thought I Couldn't Do"
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"Little Ideas Are the Catalyst for Big Change"
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"The Journey to Zeitwerk"
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"The Success of Ruby on Rails"
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"A Tech Gorl Origin Story"
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"Meditations on Software"
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"Investing in the Ruby Community"
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"The Power of Improv"
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"Leading Through Change"
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"Startups on Rails"
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If you're only going to watch a handful (and I do not recommend watching them all, by any means) make it some of these. They are in a vague priority order, but don't read too much into it.