Slug: meetup-2026-04-23
Title: Ruby Meetup April 2026
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Venue: Freeletics Office 2
Participants: 3
Talks:
- munich-rubyshift.org goes LIVE! by Klaus Weidinger
- Gems are overrated by Hans Schnedlitz
Sponsors:
- Freeletics (Location & Drinks)
Description: Dear Rubyists, the spring is coming closer and so our next meetup in April! The meetup will take place on Freeletics at 18:30. Here a big thanks to Khaled to be our contact person! Looking forward to see you all in April! Discord group: https://discord.gg/EKqHWmCxGZ CALL FOR SPEAKERS: We are still looking for a second talk. Please contact me if you have something in mind. DATE & LOCATION Date and Time: April 23nd 2026, 19:00 CEST Location: Freeletics AGENDA Welcome & Announcements Location/Food & Drinks Sponsor Slot Talk 1 incl. Q&A: Hans Schnedlitz; "Gems Are Overrated: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Copy-Pasting" Talk 2 incl. Q&A: Klaus Weidinger: "munich-rubyshift.org goes live!" How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Copy-Pasting" Food & Drinks (sponsored by TBD), Socializing (open end/as long as the location permits) TALKS Talk 1 Hans Schnedlitz: "Gems Are Overrated: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Copy-Pasting" When I started working with Ruby, I embraced its rich ecosystem. My Gemfile for any new project immediately grew longer than Gandalf's beard. Unfortunately, using Gems comes with downsides. On the practical side, pulling in third-party libraries exposes your app to supply-chain attacks that are increasingly common. However, what's even worse is that most Gems are pure bloatware. They add thousands of lines of code you'll never need, and churn constantly. The alternative, obviously, is to build everything from scratch. In this talk, we'll look at some examples of how some well-known gems can be boiled down to a single file that you can copy-paste to any new project. We'll also look at the limits of this approach, and when you actually should reach for that Gem. About our speaker https://www.linkedin.com/in/hschne Talk 2 Klaus Weidinger: "munich-rubyshift.org goes live!" In this demo-heavy "talk & deploy" I do a classic Ruby on Rails speedrun. How fast can you get from an empty git repo to a deployed website? However, nothing is as it seems. While frantically switching between slides and code editor, I will reveal and explain my two new gems and will use them to turn a new Ruby on Rails project into a very weird static site generator. We'll create the initial DB tables and add some records ... wait, what? Database tables? In a static site generator??? Yes, you heard me right! Afterwards, we'll have our tiny release party! At least, if the internet connection is stable. Wish me luck! About the speaker https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-weidinger-a37a27332/
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Attendance mode: in_person
Status: scheduled
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Start date: 2026-04-23
Start time: 2000-01-01 16:30:00 UTC
End date: 2026-04-23
End time: 2000-01-01 19:30:00 UTC
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