Most people don’t realize this, but the tiny ruby throated himmingbird migrates all the way from the east coast to Mexico and Central America in a 40 hour endurance flight that takes all of their energy. Som e birds land on oil platforms in the GULF OF MEXICO

Something I will say in fairness to Ruby Central and the good folks there — I helped launch the OSS Membership program in July, allowing individuals and companies to make mid-range contributions to fund rubygems/bundler/rubygems.org maintenance and operations.

Remembering this from less than a month ago… ah, the good old days… news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4501...

Ruby Crowned Kinglet, The Pool, Central Park #birds

I agree and even more so: what if the problem is us, the Ruby community, not contributing to our key nonprofit enough? We did not have ownership because we didn’t show up, and RC ended up being squeezed by a big donor because they did not have enough sponsors, stability and support.

My official statement on the #RubyRapture

@rhiannon.io 's entire thread here, honestly. Ruby Central lost the plot here and has made a lot of bad calls, but hopefully this can serve as a catalyst to restoring it to what it should be.

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21! sfruby.com

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well. apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

The topic and description for my workshop at SF Ruby, “The Dynamic Ruby Toolkit” is now up sfruby.com/schedule/#dy.... Come join everybody there — looks like a great program. And sign up for the workshop!

Deleted my post, which I published before Ruby central released their blog explaining things. It’s ultimately not my place to say or speculate about what’s going on. It’s obviously a disastrously bad roll out or whatever is happening and I hope they are able to make things right w the community.

I hate this culture where we try to find ways to monetize every shitty thing we do or bad thing we experience.

Now taking suggestions — who would you want to see go head to head on #RubySlamDown? 😆 (It will actually be nice and courteous convos! I hope…)

My #RailsWorld talk is now live on YouTube! I'm really looking forward to keep pushing Herb and ReActionView forward over the coming months! Please get in touch if you want to help building out this vision! Thank you for all the support! 🙏

Alan Ridlehoover ( @alan.codegardener.com ) has called Cisco Meraki "the largest Rails shop you've never heard of" -- but after sponsoring events like #RubyConf & #RailsConf, that might not be true! 💫 Cisco Meraki hires 100+ Rails devs/yr & sponsorship is CRUCIAL to meeting their hiring needs.

My first episode of the #RubySlamDown podcast will be @marcoroth.dev of Herb v. @joel.drapper.me of Phlex. Stay tuned. 👀 (I only smoke cigarettes when in Europe)

Sounds like some kind of Ruby/Rails based horror movie opening! But the movie would be very short because Rosa is such a nice person - she'd just talk to everyone about SolidQueue and then they'd all marvel at how cute mochi's pet passport is 🤣

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

We’re passing out 100 limited edition #RailsWorld Active Agent stickers! 😍

We caught up with Merritt Mason, a CS student & job seeker, about his experience at #RailsConf 2025! He discusses the job fair, connecting with hiring managers, & standing out through conference networking. ✨

Evan Phoenix ( @evanphx.dev ) was one of the original Executive Directors of Ruby Central & an OG #RubyConf/#RailsConf organizer. 💎 We spoke with him at the FINAL RailsConf to get his unique perspective on this LANDMARK event, plus his hopes for the future. 💙

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...

On the ground at #RailsConf: We spoke with Adam McCrea, Founder of Judoscale, about his experience as a first-time sponsor of a Ruby Central conference! You may remember Judoscale for their... unique swag! 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRq3...

At #RailsConf 25, we got to catch up with @amandabrooke.bsky.social, Executive Director of the Rails Foundation, and chat about: ✨ Her role & career journey ✨ #RailsWorld 2025 ✨ Working together to make the Ruby on Rails ecosystem better! ✨ And more...

The trip to Japan was amazing in many levels, but what I loved the most was to experience 1st hand their culture of respect. Not only resoect between people, but also toward objects, spaces, nature, etc. I wish it was this way everywhere.

I'm thrilled to announce @josevalim.bsky.social speaking at the #SFRuby conference on Nov 19-20. José will talk about how he sees programming languages evolving for AI, which is something we touched on when he visited SF last time. We want your thoughts on the topic! sfruby.com/schedule/#na...

The latest #SFRuby meetup at GitHub HQ was a blast and the recording is already up with: ⚡️ Drew Hoskins (Temporal): Temporal Ruby ⚡️ Enrique Carlos Mogollan (Handshake): What I've Learned Building an MCP Inspector in Ruby ⚡️ Open mic ⚡️ Miles Georgi: Tackling Domain Complexity with Foobara (continued)

Got the top spot in Ruby Weekly! 😍 So cool. And nice to see so many folks curious about the work the RubyGems team does, which so often feels invisible (because things just WORK).

I had a fabulous time interviewing Tom Rossi for this! Watch the video, his energy and enthusiasm is infectious. ✨

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

Watch our full interview with Tia here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmTd...

Tia Anderson was one of the Scholars in our Scholars and Guides program at #RailsConf 2025. 🍎 This ✨ MAGICAL ✨ moment happened on day 3 of the conference. And she's already doing more incredible things, including being confirmed as a speaker for the #SFRuby Conference this November! 🤩

Behind the scenes of #SFRuby — about to kick off at @github.com! ✨ @inazarova.bsky.social

Very cool to see this picked up in Hacker News! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4501...

The story of how #RailsConf 2025 inspired a new app for networking in the Ruby ecosystem... 💫 We interviewed @joemasilotti.com to hear about the origin of Ruby Friends, building it in under a month with Hotwire Native, and what's next: rubycentral.org/news/inspire...

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)

I got to work with the RubyGems team on this — interesting insights on security! 👀

The #RailsConf 2025 recap is HERE! (I'm not crying, you're crying. 🥺😭) While this may have been the final RailsConf, we can't wait to see everyone again at RubyConf. 💙

1) start a substack, 2) post something spicy 🌶️, 3) ?????? (late to the substack party but… subscribe if you want to 😅) open.substack.com/pub/rhiannon...

We're breaking down how RubyGems.org is funded, and how you and your company can support its maintenance and growth... 👇 rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

I just released Herb v0.4.3! 🎉 It's been another super productive week for Herb! This week I mostly focused on improving the formatter and fixing bugs in general! It's starting to take shape and feels great to use! I really love where this is going! ❤️

We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends! www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...

🚨 Episode 2 of The Ruby Gems Podcast is LIVE! Hosts Marty Haught & David Hill sit down with Evan Phoenix to discuss: 💎 The evolution of Ruby Central 💎 The role of maintainership in open source 💎 Scaling with Puma 💎 AI, tech trends, and what’s next Listen now & SUBSCRIBE: rubygemspodcast.com

Run to your local rubygems server and get a copy of Active Agent and start building AI-enabled Rails apps.

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...

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... 👇

#SFRuby last night with the creators of Herb and Active Agent, CEO of Evil Martians, & many more impressive friends! 🤩 What a group!

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.