Ruby Belgium Meetup Winter 2026

​Here's the first Ruby Belgium Meetup of 2026

Join us for the evening and listen to two amazing speakers including... you ?!

​​If you want to share something related to Ruby with the community make sure to DM Louis Ramos on Ruby Belgium's Slack channel or via email at louisramosdev@gmail.com
2 speakers will be selected to present their talk during the meetup

The location is in Leexi's office, Av. Herrmann-Debroux 2/floor 1, 1160 Auderghem

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​​​18.00 - Doors (Pizzas & Drinks!)

​​​19.30 - Talk 1:

​​​By: Matthieu Villebrun
Title: From Static to Electric: The 5-Minute Action Cable Upgrade
Desc: Think adding WebSockets to an existing codebase requires a massive overhaul? Think again. I will demonstrate the exact steps to integrate Action Cable into an existing Rails app, turning a request-response cycle into a two-way street with surprisingly few lines of code.

​​​20.00 - Break

​​​20.30 - Talk 2:

​​​By: Julik Tarkhanov
Title: Multi-step durable async workflows in Rails, natively
Desc:
ActiveJob handles simple background tasks well, but multi-step workflows expose its limits: job identity doesn't survive retries reliably, state lives in opaque blobs, and answering "which payment flows are stuck?" means diving into adapter internals. geneva_drive treats workflows as first-class database records — queryable, auditable, and durable. Database constraints enforce exactly-once execution, and you can inspect or resume workflows with standard ActiveRecord queries. No Redis, no Kafka, no new infrastructure—just your Rails app and the database you already have.

​​​21.00 - Networking & Knowledge Sharing

​​​Got any cool Ruby projects? Be sure to bring them along!

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​​​Sponsored by: Leexi