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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup

@amsrb.org

We are the Amsterdam #Ruby User Group. amsrb.org Org team EuRuKo Rotterdam 2019, Rails Girls The Netherlands (railsgirls.nl), and #NoRuKo (noruko.org).

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

Second talk of the evening is from Arno Fleming about making education and development fun for kids. We got to participate as the audience with arts and crafts ✂️📃

Arno explaining the audience how to cut and fold paper.

Arno standing in front of his final slide with contact details.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

The first talk of the night is from Stanislav Katkov about #Ruby documentation!

Stanislav giving a presentation in front of an audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 24/09/2026

We’ve started with tonight’s meetup! Thank you for hosting today Catawiki!

Vincent from Catawiki is giving a presentation about how they work at Catawiki.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 28/11/2025

Our second talk was by Jan van der Pas about using weighted resource distribution in Sidekiq queues. Jan should really turn what he showed off into a gem 👀

Jan van der Pas giving his talk in front of an audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 27/11/2025

In the first talk Marten Schilstra about writing #Ruby code with AI. And we’ll try to not have it generate any bugs 🤞

Martin Schilstra presenting his talk in front of an audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 30/09/2025

The second talk of the evening is by Bob Smits about state machines and how their own state machine gem works ⚙️

Bob Smits giving a talk in front of the meetup audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 30/09/2025

We’ve started! First talk is by Derk-Jan Karrenbeld @derk-jan.com about embracing the patch. First a history lessons about how computers worked in the before times 👀

Derk-Jan Karrenbeld giving a talk in front of the meetup audience.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 03/07/2025

Our second speaker is Wander Hillen! He is telling us the story of how the army does agile. People don’t make perfect plans, so anticipate that and be flexible in your execution. Create a good organizational structure, train people and reduce friction.

Wander Hillen is presenting in front of a crowd.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 03/07/2025

Our first speaker is Julik Tarkhanov about steppermotor.dev! He’s explaining DAGs (directed acyclic graph) and how they can be used in #Ruby apps.

Julik Tarkhanov is presenting in front of a crowd.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 03/07/2025

We’re starting tonight’s Amsterdam #Ruby! Were graciously hosted by Studytuby ☀️

Arno is standing in front of the crowd presenting.

Eugene from Studytube is standing in front of the crowd presenting.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 28/05/2025

In the second talk Lars Vonk he walked us through the things that keep us from our real work and shared interesting stories. From input validation and flaky tests to LLMs hallucinating things.

Lars Vonk giving a presentation in front of a crowd.

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Amsterdam Ruby Meetup @amsrb.org · 28/05/2025

The first talk was by Roman Samoilov about modernising #Ruby Systems with Rage. An API framework that performs better than Rails in many scenarios. Consider it for you next app 👀 github.com/rage-rb/rage

Roman Samoilov giving a presentation in front of a crowd.

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