Joel Hawksley will be taking the eTown Hall stage once again, to share lessons of 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub! 📱 💭 We're getting close to the date, hope y'all are excited as we are

Join us after the @rmrubyconf.bsky.social Rocky Mountain Ruby conf. for our presentation night: ​Frameworks as Pidgins and Creoles: How Humans Will Talk to AI About Software - By Scott Werner of Sublayer. luma.com/ue3fso8b

We're excited to again have a happy hour (first night! Avanti rooftop! 🍻 ), thanks to our amazing sponsor Caribou (@gocaribou), who has a large presence in Colorado. check them out for auto refinancing needs. caribou.com

If you are an early career developer or wouldn't be able to make it out in October to RMR otherwise, make sure you check out our scholarship form which is still open! We'd love to have you there: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cisco Meraki (@meraki) has been a great supporter of our mini Rails community with speakers, funding, and audience. If you'd like to work there, we're highlighting two lead roles they have open, both remote in the US: meraki.cisco.com/jobs/?gh_jid... meraki.cisco.com/jobs/?gh_jid...

A big thank you to our sponsor @typesense for supporting a vision of local Ruby confs! - check them out for a fast, open source, typo-tolerant search engine typesense.org

We're approaching the deadline to get your ticket purchased and be guaranteed a sweet shirt - get those buttons pushed, friends! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

This year, we're excited to keep the Ruby party rolling for day 3: the Wednesday after RMR ends, come to our "usual" Code and Coffee at Rayback Collective (or explore Boulder), and enjoy our local Boulder Ruby meetup that night for pizza, beer, and a great guest speaker! luma.com/boulder-ruby...

We're also excited to thank Gusto for their support this year. Sponsors make smaller conferences successful, and we love Gusto for being a partner to the Ruby community! gusto.com

We're indebted to our sponsors for making RMR happen. Cisco Meraki has always been a great partner and will be joining us in person as well this year promoting their job openings if you want to chat or learn more about their services! meraki.cisco.com/careers/

We have about 50 tickets left for Rocky Mountain Ruby in October... and you'll need to reserve one by Sept 10 to be guaranteed one of our cool shirts! (Remember this fun little friend from last year...?) rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

Leaving the beaten path of CRUD apps to create a game engine with Rails, Jonathan Woodard will share just how flexible Rails is, even using some of the hot new tools to improve game behavior and performance. Full schedule live here: rockymtnruby.dev/schedule/

Join us in October with Max VelDink, who'll explore that while Rails upgrades are often perceived as merely a technical exercise, it's the nontechnical parts that are more critical for success. Excited to have you join us on the stage in Boulder, Max!

We're excited to have Scott Werner (@scottwernerd) join us for RMR, sharing that the rise of GenAI isn't just a new productivity tool, but a way to bring magic and joy of creation back into our practice. Full schedule here: rockymtnruby.dev/schedule/

Brandon Weaver (@keystonelemur) is our keynote for the first day of RMR, reminiscing on when Ruby felt like magic, and offering a "conversation about responsibility, creativity, and care" for the future of AI in a Ruby community. We're excited to have you join us to share We Who Remember Magic!

We're excited to have Ratnadeep Deshmane take us on a visual guided tour of the Rails source code, providing strategies for building, modeling, and debugging. Welcome to RMR, @rtdp!

Christine Seeman will bring her advice for using AI while still bringing intentional approach to thoughtful Ruby code. Excited to have you , welcome to the RMR stage, Christine!

Erin Pintozzi is joining us this October to share what learning, mentoring, and entering tech looks like in a post-bootcamp era. We're excited to have her bring her unique experience in engineering education and practical tips for early career developers!

Tyler Lemburg from @ideon will share with us the secrets of mutation testing, complete with lots of X-Men references and strategies to harden a codebase. Welcome to the RMR stage!

We're excited to welcome Vlad Dyachenko (@not_wowinter13) to the RMR stage! He'll be sharing his expertise transforming AI into a productive teammate, including AI wrappers, what lies in his personal prompt collection, and more to build this modern skill (tickets here: rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/ )

Tess Griffin at @thoughtbot is joining us this year with a fascinating story of a Pokemon glitch known as "Missingno" and sharing how this is relevant to us as Ruby developers almost 30 years later. Welcome to RMR, Tess!

Our schedule for this year is now live! Some highlights: 🍞 light breakfast with the homies 🎤 great speakers for two days! ⚡ lightning talks from y'all 🚶‍♀️ unleashed on the delicious streets of Boulder for lunch rockymtnruby.dev/schedule/

Sean Collins will lead us through how Hanami 2 helps tame Rails-scale complexity by enforcing clear, modular boundaries with slices. We're excited to have Sean join us for Rocky Mountain Ruby this year! Take a look at the full speaker lineup here: rockymtnruby.dev/sessions/

Joining us from Philly.rb and host of Code and the Coding Coders Who Code it, is Drew Bragg (@drbragg), with the classic Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer?! If you come to Rocky Mountain Ruby, all of you do, obviously.

Caring deeply about reliability, developer experience, and building foolproof systems, Phillip Campbell is joining us to share how Gusto runs Sidekiq at scale with 600 engineers and millions of users. Glad to have you joining RMR, Phillip!

Bundler contributor and Ruby author @indirect (André Arko) is joining us to discuss production-ready strategies for Rails apps. Excited to have you with us!

But we also have sad (but not unexpected!) news: early bird tickets close today! If you know you were just going to come anyway, go one and git it done: rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

We're excited to offer scholarship tickets again this year for those not otherwise able to come. We're great for early career Ruby devs to build professional relationships locally and expand their perspectives. If you'd like to be considered: forms.gle/HW6Q5ZVzftzw...

Psyched to share that I've been selected to present @galacticimpact.com 's innards at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social ! If you're a rubyist and able to make it to #Boulder, check it out, it's a great conference! I'm sharing the stage with some real ruby/rails luminaries! rockymtnruby.dev/sessions/

Also, we'd love it we could do early bird tickets forevah, but the deadline is coming up (Friday the 15th!), so take a look at those speakers and lock in your support for local confs rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

We're thrilled to finally reveal our complete lineup of speakers, covering everything from #Ruby (ofc), to mentorship and team dynamics, to... Pokemon?! As we approach Oct, we'll showcase each speaker, but you can view the entire list now at: rockymtnruby.dev/sessions/

Announcing Rocky Mountain Ruby keynotes! Drew Bragg (@drbragg) and Brandon Weaver join with their unique Ruby perspectives. And with that, Early Bird tickets also drop. If you're excited for another year of quality talks and conversations, get in before you forget -> rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/

We're still musing about all of the creative and insightful talk proposals we got, but hope to be reporting back soon with speaker announcments!

Thank you to all of you who submitted talk proposals! We're happy to see so many high-quality and thoughtful ideas. Stay tuned, folks!

We've had first time speakers at every RMR! Our small attentive audience is welcoming & chill, and you only need an idea, goal, and basic outline to pitch (and you have until October to finish). bring it on over! sessionize.com/rocky-mounta...

Incentives for speaking at Rocky Mountain Ruby, you say? In addition to a ticket to the conference and up to $500 travel expenses, we host an intimate speaker's dinner the night before to meet everyone. Interested? Drop in 👉 sessionize.com/rocky-mounta...

Thinking about a RMR talk but worried that it's not #ruby? We also appreciate talks on career progression, team dynamics, AI, best practices, FE, & everything that makes software complicated (or easy!) Bring it to us, we'd love to hear it! sessionize.com/rocky-mounta...

It's getting closer to the deadline to join RMR as one of our amazing speakers! Find out more about what we're looking for: sessionize.com/rocky-mounta...

How did it already get to the end of the weekend?? Don't worry, submitting a talk for Rocky Mountain Ruby is easy, and come October in Boulder, Colorado, you'll be happy you did! >ᴗ< sessionize.com/rocky-mounta...

It's almost the weekend...which means you'll finally have that chance to submit your Rocky Mountain Ruby talk proposal! Will be looking for you, fam. rockymtnruby.dev

Our call for proposals for Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 is now open! You have until Jun 30 to get them in, folks rockymtnruby.dev