Here is the video and slides for my recent talk “Ruby at GitHub”.

The Reminders app on iOS and Mac has quickly become one of my favorite apps, mostly due to its integration with Siri and the ability to share lists with my wife.

A little-known-feature of the GitHub API is the ability to attach changes to an issue, converting it into a pull request. The hub command, a wrapper around git that makes it more GitHub aware, allows you to easily do this.

If you use the console on your production application with any regularity, then having helpers for your application is a must!

I got tired of @page_title variables being sprinkled around in controllers and views on Speaker Deck, so I made good use of Rails’ I18n API to define them all in one spot. Here’s how I did it…