

SF Ruby Meetup, June @ PlanetScale 🪐
Hey, Bay Area builders and tinkerers!
This month we're hosted by PlanetScale and their new HQ! PlanetScale's main API is a Rails monolith, and they ship https://github.com/planetscale/planetscale_rails for zero-downtime migrations. Sam's (CEO) demo at the SF Ruby Conference last November was a cool preview. PlanetScale for Postgres just hit GA, let's talk!
✨ New format
Let's try something different: fewer talks, more connecting. Two great talks, followed by a full round of intros, then we split into small interest-based circles so you actually get to know the people you're spending the time with.
Agenda
5:00 PM — Doors open, pizza, drinks, mingling
5:30 PM — Welcome + community announcements
5:40 PM — Talk #1 — PlanetScale
6:10 PM — Jeremy Evans “Implementing Core Set”
6:40 PM — Alan Ridlehoover “Indispensable: What Human Computers Can Teach Human Programmers”
7:10 break
7:30 PM Split into interest circles: pick a corner of the room and dig in. Themes:
🐘 Postgres, MySQL, everything DB related
🤖 AI agents & LLMs in Rails
🚀 Founders & startup builders
💼 Hiring or looking — open job conversations
🌱 New to Ruby / want a study buddy
8:30 PM — Wrap
Want to speak?
10–30 minute talks on startups built on Ruby/Rails, open source you're shipping, hard problems you've solved, weird edge cases, AI/agent integrations — all welcome. Submit here: https://forms.gle/C9HQzaT5jvwA5xwc7
Community
Slack: join here and introduce yourself to connect with fellow Bay Area Rubyists
Past meetup recordings, talks, and the new (freshly audited!) job board: https://sfruby.com
MINASWAN — Matz is nice and so we are nice. Come build new Ruby friendships.
A massive shoutout to PlanetScale for hosting and sponsoring the event. 🙏
Organized by Evil Martians.