We also received incredible contributions from the community this year! 478 pull requests merged from 83 contributors 🙌 Thank you to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, added events, or helped improve @rubyevents.org!

Happy New Year! 🎉 2025 was an incredible year for Ruby Events around the world and also for the @rubyevents.org platform! To celebrate, we're releasing RubyEvents Wrapped! A look back at talks, events, speakers, sponsors, and the Ruby community's year!

If you’re a startup selling developer tools or services and want to elevate your ✨marketing✨ in 2026 or monetize your OSS hmu. ☺️ I have 2 spots for fractional clients starting in Q1 and also open to project-based contracts. Preference to clients in the Ruby ecosystem ofc. 💎

@tonsoffun.bsky.social it was me, I was the first download

Good morning #SFRuby Conference! ☀️ I’m excited to have an overbooked workshop for Active Agent this morning and can’t wait to show many of you how to build AI in Rails. For anyone who can’t make it, we’ll be sharing a video after the event!

Congrats to tonight’s speakers at the Tokyo Rubyist Meetup — @tonsoffun.bsky.social & @hayat01sh1da.bsky.social! 👏 A talk on what the “Rails Way” is followed by an exploration of @activeagents.ai and using Rails conventions for AI feature development was the perfect 1 2 punch. 🥊 #EatSleepCode

🚨 INTRODUCING: Ruby Around The World A YouTube series & newsletter aiming to bridge gaps between local Ruby communities globally, starting in Japan. 🇯🇵 My first guest (& newsletter collaborator) is @okuramasafumi.com, Chief Organizer of #KaigiOnRails! Subscribe 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBU...

I'm very honored to have received this year's RubyPrize from Matz's hands in Matsue last Thursday, recognizing my work on Ruby and its development tools. I can still remember how nervous I was asking Matz for a picture back in 2016 😂 Time really flies (Photo from @hsbt.org ❤️)

What should I call my YouTube channel? Wrong answers only.

New YouTube channel dropping soon? 😅

She’s back at it, filming interviews with sponsors and speakers at #RubyWorld! Great to listen to this convo, can’t wait for this to be published!

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It's so nice to see open Avo apps. I love how @palkan_tula implemented the filter and actions inline with the resource. Also cool to watch @paolino's RubyLLM in the wild too. github.com/evilmartian... github.com/evilmartian...

#RubyWorld day 1 so far!

We are honored! 🥳🎉 github.com/rubyevents/r...

Made my first Ruby open source PR with the help of @tompng.bsky.social & @hayat01sh1da.bsky.social at #RubyWorld! 🎉

#RubyWorld @tonsoffun.bsky.social @matz.bsky.social 💞

#RubyWorld night 0! 行きましょう！

@ombulabs.ai www.ombulabs.ai/blog/ai-read... [from my GitHub sponsor]

In about half an hour (2pm EST) I’ll be going live with @thoughtbot.com CEO Chad Pytel to showcase structured outputs with Active Agent! ✨ We’ll be live coding and it’ll be tons of fun. Join us here: thoughtbot.com/events/open-...

Can’t wait to see @tonsoffun.bsky.social demo @activeagents.ai with Chad at thoughtbot Open Summit! Oct 31! 😎 Be sure to sign up and grab your free ticket!

For those of y'all in APAC or awake rn, the @thoughtbot.com Open Summit is kicking off NOW! So excited! Lots of great sessions, including @timriley.info of Hanami shortly, factory_bot maintainers, @tonsoffun.bsky.social of Active Agent, & more! 🤩 See you there: thoughtbot.com/events/open-...

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

So. Good.

Just got back from Rails World in Amsterdam. I'm incredibly grateful for all the support, feedback, encouragement, and motivation over the past few days. Thank you to everyone who came to my talk, shared ideas, or took the time to chat. ❤️ #RailsWorld #RailsWorld2025

At Rails World 2025, I introduced ReActionView, an initiative to explore what's possible in the Rails view layer for 2025 and beyond. As part of this, I announced Herb::Engine, an ActionView-compatible ERB engine built on top of the HTML-aware Herb Parser. #RailsWorld2025

Last night at #SFRuby while we wait for the mic… so Bay Area couple coded. 💀 @tonsoffun.bsky.social

Honored to give a talk at #RailsWorld again, on the same stage 2 years later. The recording should be up in a few weeks but you can find the slides here in the meantime: blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/rails...

If you say “Solid Queue” five times fast, @rosa.codes appears! 😍 (it really works)

As I prepare to take off for #RailsWorld, I would like to share that I am no longer working with @rubycentral.org. It's been a hell of a journey, & I'm looking forward to what's next -- both for me & for the organization. ❤️ Full reflections & why I'm leaving... 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/leavin...

This week I wrapped up the Superform section of the Phlex on Rails video course, released Superform 0.6.x, and was interviewed for my use of.... a mechanical keyboard 🤠⌨️

Excited to connect with some of my Ruby friends in Amsterdam next week. 💗 Will also have limited edition swag to share! And maybe some exciting news! ✨ (Ancient photo from deep in the archives @tonsoffun.bsky.social)

The next episode of the Ruby Gems podcast is out. Evan Phoenix joins us to talk Rubinius, Puma, Ruby Central, and much more.

What more could you be looking for when your teams needs expert guidance on upgrading your Ruby on Rails app?! I highly recommend @fastruby.bsky.social and so does @matz.bsky.social 🤩

Boringly Reliable #Ruby Upgrades are within reach with Bonsai by @fastruby.bsky.social The team behind `next_rails` and `skunk` offers gradual, 0-downtime upgrades, perfect for small engineering teams 👉 go.fastruby.io/1c9 #FastRuby #TechDebt #Maintenance

Friends, recording of @josevalim.bsky.social speaking in SF about his new Tidewave vision for AI-assisted coding and the role of Elixir, Ruby, and server-centric frameworks is live! It was a very special night at Planet Scale: youtu.be/sv0GsuAAWe8?...

Spice your ERB up with some HERB 🥬

Speakers include the legends like @obiefernandez.bsky.social, Jeremy Evans, @getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy Mike Perham, and Vladimir Dementyev, and new open source stars like @marcoroth.dev, Carmine Paolino, and @tonsoffun.bsky.social Justin Bowen, and many more!

Early bird and Supporter tickets for the San Francisco Ruby Conference just went on sale! lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025

I'll be speaking on what we can learn about DX from programming games at this one!✨ I'm really excited!! It'll be about 600 ppl, and November 19-20 (with unofficial community events on 21st). Tickets are $450. Please come! ✨

I am the kind of person who needs to see someone use a thing in order for me to understand that thing. Sometimes reading the docs is not enough, so @tonsoffun.bsky.social gave me a white glove intro to Active Agent and I immediately knew that there is no other way of building with AI in Rails.

If you’re curious about Active Agent and building AI in Rails but haven’t had that 'aha' moment yet… This might do it 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnOC...

Today I released the initial version of my first-ever gem, called Active Operator. It's an extraction (and revision) of a pattern I've used for calling external APIs, and then storing and processing their responses. Here's an intro I did. ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfz...

I'm thrilled to be bringing my workshop on how to deep-dive into Rails in person to SFRuby. Come join and let's get you upskilled 🔥

I keep hearing: “I’ve seen @activeagents.ai on Twitter, but I still don’t know what it does.” 😪 Including from @adrianthedev.com. So we got on a call & built an AI invoicing agent together. By the end: “Okay... now I REALLY get it!” Here's what finally clicked... 👇

Any JavaScript-expert Sidekiq users want to help track us down a UI race condition? https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/6768#issuecomment-3108598950

The team at quiltt.io is hiring for a full-time remote product engineer (Rails) with strong Sidekiq and React experience. Lmk if you’re interested and I can pass along your info to the CTO.

Next Tuesday come see how Oaken changes the game for Rails' apps dev and test data. Oaken is my take on factories, fixtures and seeds. I'll be showing what I've seen teams run into with each and how we can bring a more structured approach. Come join, we'll have a ball! lu.ma/e9927y5m

I make Jack Nicholson crazy faces when public speaking sometimes 😅

SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup at full swing at @figma.com today! 🥳