Speaking

September 2024 Pushing the boundaries with ActiveStorage (Rails World 2024)
In this talk you’ll learn how to push the boundaries with ActiveStorage and leverage it to build feature rich user experiences. You’ll learn how to build custom services to integrate with external providers that go above and beyond the built in services to allow users to select images from a third party API that hosts images for you, and a rich media library that allows users to see, modify and upload files they’ve uploaded that can be selected from in forms in place of uploading a new file.

GitHub: http://github.com/afomera/rails-world-2024
May 2022 Upgrading Rails: Everyone can do it and here's how (RailsConf 2022)
Ever felt overwhelmed when figuring out how to upgrade a Rails app? Unsure where you should begin? We’ll talk about how upgrading should be treated as a feature, and how you can get buy-in from management for upgrading Rails. Have you heard about how GitHub or Shopify uses dual-booting to run two versions of Rails at once and wondered how that works? We’ll talk about three approaches you can use to upgrade your app. You’ll leave this talk with takeaways you can put into practice for your next Rails upgrade.
March 2022 Upgrading Rails doesn't have to be scary (SinCityRuby 2022)
Ever felt overwhelmed when figuring out how to upgrade a Rails app? Unsure where you should begin? We’ll talk about how upgrading should be treated as a feature, and how you can get buy-in from management for upgrading Rails. 

Talk given at SinCityRuby, a small two day conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in March 2022.
October 2021 Upgrading Rails 101 (WNB.rb)
Ever been curious what upgrading Rails from version to version takes? We’ll talk about the things you need to know, and the basics to get started so you can update your apps.

Talk given at WNB.rb, a virtual community for women and non-binary Rubyists.