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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 10/09/2026

Three days of Beautiful Ruby, Weird Ruby, and Living with the Robots @ RubyConf. Lots of feelings about where Ruby is headed. YJIT. Ractors. AI that doesn't feel like a compromise. A generation who's never known life without Rails. What excites you most about Ruby's future?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 01/09/2026

They are here🎉 The RubyConf 2026 talk recordings are officially live. Every keynote, every session, every moment you wished you could have been in two rooms at once. buff.ly/ui5I84d Which one are you watching first?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 01/09/2026

The August 2026 README is here. We're behind the curtain this month: What's going on at Ruby Central, the engineering team shares updates on GSoC and security work, and much more. Read the full newsletter → buff.ly/qRXbGGy

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 28/08/2026

This week: Reuter Regis (Rjort). "To this day, Ruby is the language with the most beautiful syntax and readability for me." A considered opinion from someone who has seen the alternatives. Ruby still wins. What's your Why I Ruby? We'd love to share it: buff.ly/meSu90d

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 27/08/2026

Meet Shuveksha Tuladhar, one of our RubyConf 2026 Scholars! She gave her first-ever lightning talk, made new friends, and even got to meet Matz at her first RubyConf. Read her story: buff.ly/WxbO4Xr

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 20/08/2026

MINASWAN in action: Ruby Central's Scholars & Guides Program pairs aspiring Rubyists with experienced mentors at RubyConf. Scholars find their footing. Guides find it just as rewarding. Full story: buff.ly/MG4w3fV

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 19/08/2026

We see your DMs. We hear you. We feel the anticipation. The RubyConf 2026 talk recordings are coming. Sit tight. We will make some noise when they drop. What talk are you most eager to rewatch or catch for the first time?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 18/08/2026

RubyConf 2026 merch closes after Labor Day, September 7. This is your last chance to get RubyConf apparel and the conference mug before they're gone for good. Shop before September 7: buff.ly/R7BtiLv

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 15/08/2026

If you could only walk away with one swag item, what is actually worth the bag space?👀 No wrong answers. 1️⃣ Small and packable (stickers, pins, keychains) 2️⃣ A t-shirt 3️⃣ A tote or bag 4️⃣ Something useful (mug, tumbler, tech accessory) 5️⃣ Other (tell us!) Share below🧐

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 13/08/2026

Meet KJ Loving, one of our RubyConf 2026 Scholars! KJ found Ruby through Code the Dream and The Odin Project, and found a community that felt like home. Read their story, including advice for first-time conference attendees. Read KJ's full story: buff.ly/bb9ITV4

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 11/08/2026

Ruby Runway Spotlight: Stowzilla turns your unused stuff into a searchable digital inventory, then stores, sells, or returns it for you. Built in Ruby by a team with roots at NASA. Here's their story. 👉️ buff.ly/JBPY3ev

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 10/08/2026

Something happens at RubyConf every year that is hard to explain to people who have not been. You walk in as a developer. You walk out remembering why you became one. MINISWAN is not just a saying. It is what this community is. What does Ruby mean to you right now?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 06/08/2026

Every year the Scholars and Guides program reminds us why we do this. This year's cohort showed up with curiosity, courage, and stories that made our hearts soar. Beautiful gems, every one. To every Scholar and Guide at RubyConf 2026: thank you. You belong here. Always have.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 05/08/2026

🎉Welcome to the Ruby Alliance, Rubyroid Labs!💎 We're excited to welcome them as a Ruby Alliance Supporter. Their investment helps sustain the Ruby ecosystem and the open source infrastructure developers rely on every day. Thanks for supporting Ruby!❤️ buff.ly/phUkXGo

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 04/08/2026

Ruby Runway Spotlight: Joe Masilotti's Ruby Native ships real native iOS and Android apps from your existing Rails HTML and ERB. No Swift, no Kotlin. Here's his story, and his advice on charging early to test an idea fast. Read here👉️ buff.ly/z2dXxeY

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 03/08/2026

Show us your people: Ruby friends from the start, the ones you finally fist-bumped after years of calls and pull request comments, & the new faces becoming your people. Drop RubyConf'26 photos below. Old friends, new friends, all of it! Creating a public photo album together~

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 31/07/2026

The July README is out! RubyConf 2026 retrospective, community spotlights, and a new way to support RubyGems.org. Read it here → buff.ly/PyLKPGu

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 30/07/2026

Ruby Runway Spotlight: Michael Carroll of Coolhand Labs built an AI observability tool that cuts agent costs over 50%, and still maintains a Ruby gem when most AI dev tools have moved on. Here's his story. buff.ly/JtmBLCK

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 29/07/2026

What's the moment from RubyConf 2026 you're never going to forget? The talk that wrecked you. The lunch conversation that somehow lasted four hours. Meeting a GitHub username in person for the first time. No moment is too small. Tell us.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 28/07/2026

Turns out RubyConf wasn't just full of coding magic. 🎩✨ Huge thanks to Flagrant for bringing an amazing magician to the conference! The tricks, laughs, and "wait...WHAT?!" moments made for a memorable experience between sessions.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 24/07/2026

Cheering solo founders and two-person teams shipping Ruby apps that solve real problems for people. No Series A or microservices blog posts, just a domain and an idea that works. Building in that space? Tell me the problem you're solving and who it's for.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 23/07/2026

RubyConf 2026 is a wrap. We laughed, learned, and stayed up late doing karaoke...Turned debates into conversations about why we do this. This community keeps the energy and friendships alive after the conference. What's one thing you're taking home?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 21/07/2026

Ruby Runway Spotlight: Paresh Sharma built Viveture (a pet sitter marketplace that takes zero cut from bookings) solo, on Rails, in under a year. Here's his story and his advice for devs sitting on a startup idea. Read more👉️ buff.ly/YPuOkgJ

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 18/07/2026

RubyConf may be over, but conferences keep coming. How do you reset after a few days of nonstop talking, learning, and socializing? Ours: sleep. A lot of it. What's your recovery ritual?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 17/07/2026

RubyConf 2026: a wrap. Keynotes from Obie Fernandez and Dave Thomas, a Matz Q&A with tenderlove (ask about the AI-scented candle intern interview), and an ice cream social to close it out. Gonna now take a nap. Safe travels home, everyone.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 16/07/2026

Day 2 of RubyConf 2026: the "Once a Maintainer" panel with Allison Pike, Jeremy Evans, Colby Swandale & Richard Schneeman, workshops, Hack Spaces, Birds of a Feather, the Future of Ruby panel, Ruby Runway startup pitches, Lightning Talks, and Game Night. Final day is here.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 15/07/2026

Day 1 of RubyConf 2026: Matz's opening keynote, an incredible lineup of session speakers, celebrating our 7 Ruby Luminary Awardees, and closing out with Jessica Kerr asking "Who We Are Now?" in an age of AI-assisted coding. Onward to Day 2.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 13/07/2026

Travel day🚗✈️ Safe flights, smooth drives, no delays. When you land, you're 20 minutes from one of the best resort backdrops we've ever had for this conference. Get settled, find your people tonight, and come ready tomorrow. We'll see you at RubyConf.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 12/07/2026

2 days out. The hallway track at RubyConf is half the conference. The conversations that happen between sessions, over lunch, waiting for the elevator... some of the best ones you'll have all year. 👉️ rubyconf.org

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 11/07/2026

3 days out. If you haven't been to Red Rock Canyon: 15 minutes from the Strip, stunning, and a nature break that eases conference-snack guilt. Good for a morning or evening. 📍 Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 10/07/2026

4 days out. Packing checklist, RubyConf edition: Laptop + chargers ✅ Layers (Vegas AC is brutal) ✅ Sunscreen (for brave adventurers) ✅ Your fave board game for Game Night ✅ Your best celeb impersonations ✅ Game Night on Day 2 is legendary. Bring something worth playing.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 09/07/2026

5 days until RubyConf Las Vegas🤩 If you're flying July 13th, you're in good company. What excites you most: a talk, reuniting with yearly friends, the hallway track, or Hack Spaces? We're one week out and the anticipation is real.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 08/07/2026

Heading to #RubyConf this July? Stop by and meet @sf_insurance — they've been building on Rails for years and are actively hiring Ruby engineers. 🤝 July 14–16 | Red Rock Casino Resort, Las Vegas buff.ly/84d1KSI

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 08/07/2026

One week out. If you haven't mapped out your days yet, the Eventify app is the easiest way to do it. Download it now, search RubyConf 2026, and build your personal schedule before you're standing in the lobby trying to remember which room to go to.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 07/07/2026

Your brain after 6 sessions and 14 hallway conversations: 🫠 Good news! Thanks to @Fullscript, the RubyConf Relax Lounge is here to save the day. 💺 Massage chairs 🥨 Snacks 💊 Supplements 🚫 Zero sales pitch Come recharge before your next "quick chat" turns into 45 minutes.😄

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 07/07/2026

The Ruby community values readable, intentional, human software. This year's Beautiful Ruby track returns to those foundations—abstraction, modularity, TDD—what makes code worth working in. We're curious: which principle or practice do you keep returning to?

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 06/07/2026

One more Day 1 addition at RubyConf 🎉 "Yes, &...: Ruby's Secret Talent for Improvisation" — Ifat Ribon | 12:00 PM 8 days. Get your ticket now. buff.ly/DKVHooQ

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 06/07/2026

Hack Spaces is back. If you've never experienced it: it's one of the most genuinely collaborative parts of RubyConf. Open source projects, featured tables, people actually working together in the same room. More info at rubyconf.org/community_day/

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 04/07/2026

It's July 4th, which means somewhere right now a developer is writing a fireworks simulator in Ruby when they could just go outside. What's the most over-engineered thing you've ever built just because you could? Drop it below.👇️

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 03/07/2026

This week, Kinsey Durham Grace: "It feels like home and like family." The MINISWAN spirit is real. Ruby conferences hit different, and Kinsey's story is exactly why. Share your Ruby story: buff.ly/QhriRDV

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 03/07/2026

Two weeks out from RubyConf Las Vegas, and the schedule is live. Three days, three themes: Living with the Robots, Beautiful Ruby, and Weird Ruby. Something in there will challenge you. Probably more than one thing. 👉️ rubyconf.org

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 01/07/2026

Matz. Jessica Kerr. Dave Thomas. Chad Fowler. Obie Fernandez. Chad Pytel. Rich Kilmer. All in one room. RubyConf is 13 days away and the VIP Raffle closes TONIGHT. 🧵👇

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 01/07/2026

July 1st is a lot of things. Chicken Wing Day. Canada Day. Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day. Oh, and the last day to enter the RubyConf VIP Experience Raffle. 😅 Closes tonight at midnight PST. Everyone entered gets a pin. Five people get so much more. 👉 buff.ly/DKVHooQ

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 30/06/2026

A pet-sitting marketplace where sitters keep 100% of what they earn, rankings reward trust not discounts, and every sitter is background checked. Catch Paresh Sharma pitching Viveture at Ruby Runway, July 15 at RubyConf Community Day. viveture.com

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 30/06/2026

RubyGems was conceptualized during late-night hacking sessions at RubyConf. One conversation changed Ruby history. Community Day still has that energy. Join us. 🎟️ buff.ly/hgp3bDq

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 29/06/2026

What does RubyConf mean to @schneems? Accidentally having breakfast with Aaron Patterson, getting commit-bit from Evan Phoenix, and a shirt off someone's back. Literally. 🧵👇

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 29/06/2026

TutorialKit.rb w/ Albert Pazderin is building interactive Ruby tutorials that run in the browser w/ WebAssembly. Bring a gem, build a tutorial, or just stop by. Beyond every featured project, there are open tables for any collaboration that wants to happen. Show up. See where the day takes you.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 27/06/2026

Calling Ruby mentors and senior devs: what’s the one concept you wish someone had explained earlier—the lightbulb idea that took months to click? Metaprogramming, the object model, how Rack works, or something embarrassingly basic. Share it—someone learning needs this.

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 26/06/2026

Woah, wait a sec! Have you seen this? !😱 The VIP Experience Raffle closes July 1st — don't be the one who waited too long.🧵👇

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Ruby Central @rubycentral.org · 26/06/2026

Remote work. Economic pressure. AI moving fast. It can feel like you're figuring it out alone. RubyConf is the room where that changes. 🤝 buff.ly/hgp3bDq

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