Evrone and DataArt will hold a series of mitaps in Voronezh

The first meeting dedicated to the Ruby language will be held on April 20 at the Ramada Plaza. At the next, in early June, we will talk about machine learning, then - two Java meetings and front-end development and a large final conference.

Evrone is known primarily for conducting the RubyRussia Moscow conference. This DataArt and Evrone decided to organize a big event for the Ruby community outside of Moscow or St. Petersburg.
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Meeting program

Oleg Balbekov , the founder of Evrone and the RubyRussia conference, will talk about organizing the country's largest conference on Ruby and supporting open-source developers initiative, explaining why they are also known to Ruby and Rails developer Aaron Patterson.

Alexander Kirillov , Evrone CTO, will explain why Ruby technology is still good and about the place Ruby and Rails framework occupies in the world of modern technological solutions.

Stanislav Mekhonoshin , an engineer from the Toptal Core Team, will talk about the typical problems of novice developers, how to hire interns and help them grow faster.

Timlid Evrone Boris Kuznetsov will talk about the culture of development and effective interaction in distributed teams.

Sergey Zinoviev , technilid from DataArt, proposes to think about the concept of time: the talk in his report will deal with ways of working with this entity, including the implementation of time in Rails.

Dmitry Koprov , Head of the Data Storage Development Department, will talk about best practices in working with data through ActiveRecord.

Mitap will be interesting to Ruby-developers of any level, and to those who want to expand the technological stack and join the community.
Although the conference program has been formed, speakers can still send an application to kirill@evrone.com. Listeners need to register .

Is Ruby relevant today?

We asked one of the speakers, Evrone Technical Director Alexander Kirillov, to answer this question:

“Many people believe that in 2019, a new web project can be launched only on Go or Node.js. There are usually three arguments against Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework:

• Ruby is slow and gluttonous.
• Ruby has scalability issues.
• Ruby is already old.

In detail on each of these theses (which really often determine the choice of technology) I will focus on the report at the conference. But at once I will make a reservation that none of them has anything in common with real Ruby development. I will also talk about what makes Ruby stand out from the competition:

• Developed over many years of the framework agreement allows you to quickly and efficiently create new projects, as well as support existing ones.
• An extensive collection of open and free libraries allows you to quickly and easily add new functionality.
• The framework allows you to quickly modify existing code and add new behavior to the project.
• Sufficient attention is paid to the key issue of security at various levels, from web requests to work with the database.
• In addition, in terms of quality, special attention is paid to testing the project at different levels (the testing culture in the Ruby community is very highly developed).
• Flexibility in working with both the backend and the frontend component of the project allows you to separate tasks for different teams
• A huge, open community allows you to find the answer to almost any question that arises. ”