Slides from my talk at Brighton Ruby 2026

👋 Hey! Thank you for coming to my talk Clinics on Rails at Brighton Ruby 2026!

A few times each year, Ethiopia ACT runs week-long medical clinics that care for hundreds of underserved people in Addis Ababa. In my talk, I expanded on this blog post about how I built a clinic data system.

I love hearing from people. If you would like to talk about this, or anything else, please send me an email.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in Brighton!

A few more links from the talk:

• Kaldi’s Wikipedia page (the origin story of coffee)
• Choose Boring Technology from Dan McKinley
• informers gem for calling ONNX models from Ruby
• Hugging Face which hosts many open-weight models
• sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2, the specific embedding model that I used
• Avo, a Rails framework for internal tools
• Jaro-Winkler distance algorithm (Wikipedia), which I used for search