Ruby Powers AI Payments
Three Ruby-based companies — Coinbase (Rails), Stripe (Sinatra), and Shopify (Rails) — back the x402 Foundation, the Linux Foundation's new open standard for AI-native payments.
Coinbase and Stripe co-founded the foundation with Cloudflare. Shopify joins alongside Google, AWS, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Visa. The first open protocol for agent-to-agent commerce.
Apr 2, 2026
Gusto Acquires Mosey, Ships Payroll in Claude
Apr 8–9, 2026
SF-based Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) acquires compliance platform Mosey — then ships payroll inside Claude and Slack. Two agent-native moves in 48 hours.
Read more about Gusto acquiring MoseyIntercom Opens Fin API
Apr 3, 2026
Rails Foundation Core member opens its Fin AI agent to developers. Fin Search and Reranker APIs. Contracts from $250K/year. Fin is on $100M ARR inside a $400M ARR Rails monolith.
Read more about Intercom Fin APIApollo.io Acquires Pocus
Mar 20, 2026
SF-based Rails sales platform (230M+ contacts, approaching $200M ARR) absorbs enterprise revenue intelligence. 400% enterprise growth in 12 months.
Read more about Apollo.io acquiring PocusThatch Welcomes Venteur Customers
SF-based Rails health benefits platform (Series B, $84.5M raised) takes over competitor Venteur's customers, employees, and broker relationships — consolidating ICHRA lead.
Read more about Thatch welcoming VenteurBasecamp Goes Agent-Native
DHH ships new API, CLI, and agent skill modules. AI agents can now manage projects, create todos, post messages. HEY and Fizzy next.
Read more about Basecamp agent-nativeRails Adds AGENTS.md
Rafael Mendonça França opens AGENTS.md; Xavier Noria merges. Official AI agent guidance now lives in the Rails repo — monorepo structure, testing conventions, contribution rules.
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April 2026
12 talks · Intercom
Show talks
- 5:10 Brian Scanlan (Intercom) — Turning Claude into a Full-Stack Engineering Platform
- 50:41 Konstantin Gredeskoul (Archive) — Stop Asking Useless Questions: Adaptive User Flows with Ruby DSLs and LLMs
- 1:20:07 John Woodell — Building Voter Mailers in Ruby
- 1:28:36 Miles Georgi — Ractorize: Wrapping Ruby Objects in Ractors
- 1:31:43 Matt Duszynski (NexHealth) — Volunteer Standup 😎
- 1:33:59 Jake Moffatt — My AI Development Workflow with Parallel Coding Agents
- 1:38:55 Michael Foley — Judging Code on Gut — Reading DHH's 2012 Ruby Rogues Letter
- 1:42:00 Ziggy the Hamster — Announcing 'Weird and Wacky Machines Running Ruby' at RubyConf 2026
- 1:46:25 Galileo Friedman (Superconductor) — Superconductor: Multiplayer Agent Workflows in the Cloud
- 2:00:18 Hector Miramontes (RefundDesk) — RefundDesk: A Rails App for Customs Brokers to Claim Tariff Refunds
- 2:03:10 Chris Davis (Bootstrapital) — Semi-Autonomous Software: Putting the Human in the Loop with Rubot
- 2:14:52 Dmitry Kozlov — claude-yolo: Parallel Claude Code Agents in tmux
February 2026
14 talks · Sentry
Show talks
- 4:15 Neil Manvar (Sentry) — Introducing Sentry Seer
- 9:54 Sohil Kshirsagar (Tusk) — Why Coding Agents Need a Harness, Not Just Guardrails
- 33:08 Mike Dalton (Calendar Vision) — How to Turn Images into Calendar Events
- 1:01:12 André Arko (gem.coop) — gem.coop: A Community-Owned Gem Hosting Service
- 1:03:29 Ziggy the Hamster — Announcing 'What Cursed Platforms Does Ruby Run On?' at RubyConf 2026
- 1:05:31 Miles Georgi — Ractors Are Just Actors with an R — Benchmarking Ractors vs Threads
- 1:07:08 Rhiannon Payne — Marketing Services for Ruby Startups
- 1:08:13 Daniel Farina (Ubicloud) — Ubicloud Is Hiring
- 1:09:30 Jake Moffatt — Building an Ambient OS on the Open Home Dev Kit
- 1:10:20 Justin Bowen — Ragents: A Ractor-Based Agent Gem (RubyKaigi 2026 Preview)
- 1:11:50 Cameron Dutro (Cisco Meraki) — garnet-js: Implementing the YARV Virtual Machine in TypeScript
- 1:15:12 Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians) — Solaris: Vibe-Coding an Internal Rails App Over Two Weekends
- 1:20:19 Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians) — Does Architecture Still Matter When AI Writes the Code?
- 2:03:09 Brandon Weaver (One Medical) — Q&A about Ruby Central
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RubyLLM: One API, One Person, One Machine for AI
Carmine Paolino · SF Ruby Conf 2025
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Suppli provides digital payments and accounts receivable (AR) software solutions for construction materials supply and distribution sector.
Accelerating innovation in healthcare with our universal API, powered by the Synchronizer. Used by tens of thousands of practices in North America, and hundreds of startups building with us. We're a healthtech unicorn!
Simple AI makes it easy to build and deploy enterprise-grade phone agents in days, not weeks. Iconic businesses use us for sales calls, customer support, leads qualification, and more. YC-backed.
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