September 2022 Meeting

The September 2022 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 12th of September, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).

👪 in person meeting alert 👪

For the first time since March 2020 we're having an in person event. The lovely folk at Funding Circle are hosting us in their offices, on Queen Victoria St. Full venue and registration details are given below.

Agenda

How music works, using Ruby

Thijs Cadier says:

That strange phenomenon where air molecules bounce against each other in a way that somehow comforts you, makes you cry, or makes you dance all night: music. Since the advent of recorded audio, a musician doesn't even need to be present anymore for this to happen (which makes putting "I will always love you" on repeat a little less awkward).

Musicians and sound engineers have found many ways of creating music, and making music sound good when played from a record. Some of their methods have become industry staples used on every recording released today.

Let's look at what they do and reproduce some of their methods in Ruby!

  1. LRUG September 2022 - Thijs Cadier - How Music Works, Using Ruby

Building a Mortgage Lender at Generation Home

André Barbosa says:

It’s not often that you hear about a startup doings things differently in the mortgages world. And there’s some good reasons for it, the cost of entry is super high!

It’s not just funding and regulations either. You also need to back it up with the right technology and tools to manage a highly complex business where mistakes can be very costly. On top of that, startups need to move fast to out-innovate the incumbents with only a fraction of the resources.

At Generation Home Ruby has been a catalyst to help us deliver a product we’re proud of in a short time-scale. We’ll talk about some of the challenges we faced early on, how Ruby, Rails and the whole ecosystem helped us deliver and what still lays ahead of us.

  1. LRUG September 2022 - André Barbosa - Building a Mortgage Lender at Generation Home

Fixing flaky tests, using RSpec's --seed option

Shen Sat says:

Fixing a flaky test in the build pipeline of your application often requires first replicating the failing test locally. I'm going to show you how I used RSpec's --seed to help me do this for a flaky test I was recently grappling with, and how it led led me to a fix ✨

  1. LRUG September 2022 - Shen Sat - Fixing Flaky Tests Using RSpec's –seed Option

Afterwards

When the talks come to an end we'll decamp to a local pub for some food, some drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees. We'll post details of the pub shortly, once Funding Circle tell us which is the best one to go to!

Venue & Registration

Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.

Secure your place

Hopefully you all remember that physical meetings involve finite space and so to be guaranteed entry you need to register via eventbrite.

Venue

The address of the venue:

Funding Circle
71 Queen Victoria St
London
EC4V 4AY

See on a map

The venue has a hard limit of 75 people. If you register and realise you can't come, please use eventbrite to give up your place so we can someone else come in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night who haven't registered, but we can't guarantee it.

Posted by Murray Steele on Aug 18, 2022