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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you closing us out, Alan Riddlehoover, with that look forward and back, and celebrating voices of computing that are often ignored! ♥️

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And more great lightning talks, thank you! Jim / influence.rs Jason / Async workflows Marco / snapshot testing Katya / Ruby Embassy Andy / workflow engines & busybee

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you lightning talks! Ruby Events Ruby-based systems Ractors Supply chain security

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Welcoming back @i_ribon9 (Ifat), who shared how a solid testing foundation will also improve agentic testing in our apps (And check out that solid mountain metaphor in the 3rd slice 👀)

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Honeybadger balance board has a home! Thank you, @honeybadger.io! ♥️

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 5 weeks, @giovapanasiti built a RAG client in just Ruby, and then made it agentic with tools

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another returning speaker, Christine Seeman is sharing how mindfulness, growth mindset, deep work, and more make us better engineers and also happier humans

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone's reality now is onboarding to a new job with the reality of AI. @fomera is using her experience to give us a roadmap for using your agent to get you started

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge thank you to sponsor Honeybadger for their support of Ruby communities! Wait for the drawing for this sweet board this afternoon 👀

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excited to welcome @marcoroth back to Colorado to share the reactivity, dev tooling, and great features that comes with the latest release of Herb bundled in Rails 8.2

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So great to hear from organizer Bekki about micro communities and why organizers like building our local Ruby community!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Enjoy drinks, more socializing, games, and/or learning to knit! See you same time tomorrow

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You may just have to wait for the video of Travis Turner's closing remarks. Is it aliens? Is it God? Or just drugs?

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

~400 lines of Ruby to build your own agent - @DRBragg shows us just how easy it is to interface with a model to create a harness

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ben Reubenstein details the transformation of his commits for good while building FLYSoft and other projects

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How long do your tests take to run? What maintenance work is outstanding in your app? Fernando Perales from @thoughtbot helps us think through signs that a Rails app is "rotting"

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Breaking down the multiple types of AR class hierarchies in Rails (did you know there were 3?), @nicoerlichman is helping us understand the tradeoffs of STI, abstract classes, and delegated types

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you've considered whether you're ready for promotion or struggle with your staff role, Joel Hawksley oriented us to his priorities, challenges, and promotion path as a staff developer at @github

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How would you prepare ahead of time for incident response and get better during? Sonja Peterson walks us through several strategies for better IR!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have now been onboarded to build powerfuLLMachine as HUMANs who also need to think mindfully about their internal prompts and workflow, thanks to Kevin Murphy's delightful kickoff for day 1

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spike kicked off our speakers with his lightning talk about the chats we see in software development, ending with "never boring, never bored"

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes sponsors! Recapping here all the amazing sponsors who keep RMR affordable for everyone: @gustohq @appsignal @honeybadger.io @flagrant and our travel and podcast sponsors!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Make sure to pick up some swag from our sponsor @gustohq!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things are getting set up here! Check out this sweet swag this year designed by @flagrant. See you all soon!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things are getting set up here! Check out this sweet swag this year designed by @flagrant. See you all soon!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things are getting set up here! Check out this sweet swag this year designed by @flagrant. See you all soon!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're so excited to be able to show you our tshirt design this year from @beflagrant.com! Gonna be another good one 👁️ (previous designs attached...) Make sure you check them out for digital services! www.beflagrant.com/services/build

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're excited to welcome back Alan Riddlehoover to RMR! 250,000 tech workers laid off in a year. Alan is going to share the secrets of NASA's human computers for three strategies to stay indispensable in the age of AI. ❤️

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UFOs. Theology. Psychedelics. What they share is a framework for understanding ontological shock, and AI is giving programmers exactly that. Travis Turner's talk is unlike anything else on the schedule. Strap in. 👽✨

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pager duty panic is optional. Sonja Peterson's incident response training plan will turn you into the engineer who *fixes* the outage—not the one who hides from it. 🚨 Catch her in Boulder in September! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ERB templates that actually understand HTML. Phoenix LiveView-style reactivity with zero new JS framework. Marco Roth is unveiling Herb + ReActionView for Rails 8.2. 🌿 Welcoming Marco back to Boulder for RMR! (Get your tix here: lnkd.in/gwG_WMZj)

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

AI can write 1,000 tests in an hour. But should it? Ifat Ribon is bringing the philosophy of *fewer, better* tests to the AI era. Quality over quantity, and confidence over coverage. 🎯 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

6 microservices. 4 languages. 2 databases. OR... one simple Rails app. Giovanni Panasiti rebuilt a corporate RAG system the Rails way and he's here to prove Rails developers aren't second-class citizens in the AI conversation. 🔥 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That TODO comment from 2019? It's now the code you're afraid to touch. After 13 years consulting on Rails apps, Fernando Perales knows the smell of decay and will be joining us at RMR in September! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

~400 lines of Ruby => one fully functional AI agent. Drew Bragg is demystifying the magic so you can build your own from scratch. Just Ruby. 🤖 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Mindfulness. Growth mindset. Habit building. Deep work. Christine Seeman has four research-backed techniques to level up your brain without burning out. Your career isn't 100% code! 🧠 Welcoming her back to the Rocky Mountains in September!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

STI? Abstract classes? Delegated types? Nicolas Erlichman is mapping the messiest part of Active Record so you can model with confidence. No more guessing which tool fits the job rockymtnruby.dev#program

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pro bono since 2006, from weekend hacks to three-year commitments. Ben Reubenstein is showing us how to put Ruby to work for a cause, and why you'll probably get more out of it than you give. ❤️ rockymtnruby.dev/sessions/

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

90 days. New codebase. Shipping value while still figuring out where the service objects live. Andrea Fomera's field report on AI-assisted onboarding is the playbook you didn't know you needed. Get your early bird ticket still! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We're excited to welcome back Sapphire sponsor, Gusto! They've sent speakers, they've sent teams to attend. They have one of the biggest Rails apps in the world AND they hire in Colorado. <3 gusto.com

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We're so excited to welcome the first sponsor for the 2026 season - crowd favorite @honeybadger.io ! Great both for their support of the Ruby community and for keeping our apps and outages ticking smoothly. honeybadger.io

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Good evening, Rocky Mountain Ruby! We'll will be sharing media, updates, and videos in the next few weeks, but for now, thank you for all the camaraderie and making Bekki cry!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

One more thank you for all our sponsors -for funding, in-kind donations and services, and podcasts for spreading the word! ♥️💎

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Aww yeah we're kicking off another round of Who Wants to be a Ruby Engineer?!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you for sharing your time in preparing and presenting! Great crop of lightning talks this year!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

More lightning talks! Importantly, many of our sponsors send devs, who are represented here talking about their own passion projects (Caribou, Checkr, Meraki)

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Some highlights of all our lightning talks! (part 1)

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We're so very excited to have André Arko (@indirect.io) with us today presenting what makes and keeps an app production-ready. ... and I hear he'll be back on the stage for lightning talks too!

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Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference @rmrubyconf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Max VelDink of @shopify giving us the process and cultural tools to manage the big changes of a Rails upgrade - welcome to the Rocky Mountain Ruby stage!

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