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 [email protected]
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
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!
Sponsored by: Leexi