It's Time to Bin Your VCR

Thursday 15th October 6:30pm at Colony, One Silk Street

This month (October 2026), Rob Whittaker will take us through one of his hot-takes: VCR does more damage than good, and there are imperfectly better ways to stub your external requests.

Rob Whittaker is Director of Software Development at thoughtbot. He has over two decades of professional web development experience and has worked with Ruby and Rails since 2012. (He's also the co-organizer of NWRUG!)

Schedule

  • 6:30pm — We gather for pre-talk pizza
  • 7:00pm — The watch-along starts
  • 8:00pm — We retire to The Crown & Kettle for refreshments and further Ruby chat

Registration

If you plan to attend, be sure to register so we can plan for numbers.

Thanks to our sponsors

Fatsoma and thoughtbot kindly sponsor NWRUG. Fatsoma cover the venue hire. thoughtbot covers the pizza and buys the first round of drinks afterwards ❤️

The location

Colony, One Silk Street 1 Silk Street, Ancoats, Manchester, Manchester, M4 6LZ.

About NWRUG events

Our events are free and open to anyone with an interest in Ruby, regardless of experience level. There is no need to register, just show up on the day! We want to keep NWRUG as welcoming and inclusive as possible so we ask that all attendies follow our Code of conduct. If you have any questions, get in touch.