San Francisco Ruby Conference
Let's bring the programmer delight and Ruby into the future!
The San Francisco Ruby Conference, year two: two days of talks and conversation groups at SFJAZZ, Nov 10-11, and a community day on Nov 12. 450 Ruby engineers and founders, one room.
The program
One stage, two audiences. While small teams are in a talk, big teams are in a conversation group, then they swap. Keynotes are for everyone.
Day 1 is AI-heavy: agents in production, AI in legacy codebases, and the Ruby tooling for both. Day 2 is AI-light: queues, concurrency, real-time, open source, and the businesses built on them.
Schedule: https://sfruby.com/#schedule
Day 1, Tuesday Nov 10: AI-heavy
Agents in production, AI in legacy codebases, and the Ruby tooling for both.
9:15 am · Keynote · Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians): Why start a new company on Rails (and AI) today
10:05 am · Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians, AnyCable): Ruby for AI and AI for Ruby
10:35 am · Madison Sites (Order.co): The System Nobody Understood (Including AI)
11:05 am · JP Camara (Wealthbox): Realtime collaboration on Rails with yrby and Lexxy
1:15 pm · Ben Sheldon (GoodJob, Frontdoor Benefits): Building the same app twice: same problems, different decade
1:45 pm · Svyatoslav Kryukov (Evil Martians, Inertia Rails): Agents Scale, Humans Don't: Hiring Without Slowing Down
2:15 pm · Carmine Paolino (RubyLLM, Chat with Work): RubyLLM 2.0: The AI Framework Ruby Deserves
3:05 pm · CJ Avilla (Anthropic): Assign to Claude: Making an Agent a First-Class Teammate in Your SaaS
4:15 pm · Keynote · Ryan Sherlock (Fin, ex Intercom): Who Watches the Agents? Closing the Rails Loop from Code to Customers
Conversation groups on Day 1: startups and startup-minded engineers get to know each other, big teams share their strategies for agentic coding, and small teams find their people in a matching game.
Day 2, Wednesday Nov 11: AI-light
Queues, concurrency, real-time, open source, and the businesses built on them.
9:00 am · Keynote · Rosa Gutiérrez (37signals): Solid Queue: two years on Rails
9:50 am · Celina Lopez (Primary Health): Building a Developer-friendly PaaS for Kubernetes on Ruby
10:20 am · Jason Bosco (Typesense): How We Bootstrapped an Open Source Search Engine to $10M+ ARR with 15 People and Ruby on Rails
10:50 am · Marco Roth (Herb): Reactive Rails Views, No Rewrite Required
1:00 pm · Alex Coomans (Persona): Keeping Your Head on Straight in Concurrent & Complex Ruby Applications
1:30 pm · Phillip Campbell (Gusto): Background processing at Gusto: The Parts Where People Look Puzzled
2:00 pm · Peter Zhu (Shopify, Ruby core): Open Source is the Most Fragile and Most Resilient Ecosystem
2:50 pm · Cole Robertson (Rebulk): Building a new startup on Rails, SQLite and Starlink
3:20 pm · Jason Thomas (OpenC3): Satellite command and control with Ruby and COSMOS
4:00 pm · Chris Oliver (GoRails, Hatchbox): Rails: The Founder's Unfair Advantage
Conversation groups on Day 2: big teams and engineers get to know each other, startups meet VCs, and big teams compare Sidekiq, Solid Queue, GoodJob and more.
Day 3, Thursday Nov 12: Community day
Bring your own event: a walk, a bike ride, an ocean swim, a hackathon or anything else you want to do together with Ruby friends. Ideas to conference@sfruby.com or the SF Ruby Slack.
Conversation groups
Everyone is placed in at least two groups of people working on the same kind of system, with a minute on the mic.
Tickets
Regular, $450: both days and the community day. Until Sep 30
Single day, $350: Day 1 AI-heavy or Day 2 AI-light. Until Sep 30
Company-sponsored, $650: invoiced, expensable, no deadline. It is what keeps Regular at $450
From Oct 1: $500
A ticket also gets you a character on the Pier, the pre-conference game: https://clouds.sfruby.com
Need company sign-off? https://sfruby.com/manager/ has the costs, the case and an email to send. Nov 11 is Veterans Day, so it is one day out of the office.
Bringing your team?
Teams of five or more get a slot with slides to introduce the company. Register everyone in one order, or email conference@sfruby.com for one invoice. https://sfruby.com/team/
Getting there
SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin St, at Fell. Muni Metro to Van Ness, BART to Civic Center, or the Performing Arts Garage on Grove St ($21 flat if you are in by 9 am and out by 7 pm). Details: https://sfruby.com/#getting-there
Organized by Evil Martians with the SF Ruby community.
SF Ruby Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/sf-ruby/shared_invite/zt-3mi22dwb9-MGN_s0j_jNrt7hb4rvqkHg
Sponsor the conference: https://sfruby.com/sponsor-2026/
Ruby jobs: https://sfruby.com/jobs/
See you in San Francisco!