Building the Future with Ruby

November 19-21, 2025 • Fort Mason, San Francisco

Tickets: special price of $350 till October 20.

SF Ruby and Evil Martians are excited to invite you to our premier event: the San Francisco Ruby Conference

We're gathering ~600 Rubyists in San Francisco: where new Ruby dreams are born every day. Three unforgettable days await, where you'll connect with ambitious founders of new Ruby startups like bolt.new and YC startups, and engineers scaling the big Ruby success stories like Chime, Gusto, Cisco, Shopify, One Medical, Intercom. You'll meet authors of open source shaping what's next for Ruby and Rails, like Marco Roth and Carmine Paolino, as well as big stars like José Valim, Jeremy Evans, Dave Thomas and Vladimir Dementiev.

Demos from the fast-paced Ruby startups, hands-on workshops on Inertia Rails, building AI Agents, dynamic Ruby types, team upskill, and deep conversations in the hallway track. Join a creative, generous, and unapologetically mischievous Ruby community. This is where you belong!

Learn from the brightest minds in the Ruby community

Carmine Paolino

RubyLLM: One API, One Person, One Machine for AI

Vladimir (Vova) Dementyev

Marco Roth

ReActionView: An ActionView-Compatible ERB Engine

Obie Fernandez

Ruby & AI conversation

Ryan King

CTO Roundtable

Svyatoslav (Svyat) Kryukov

Inertia Rails Workshop

Mike Perham

Open source as a business with Sidekiq

Brandon Weaver

Rails Expertise, Distilled: AI Agents That Get Your Monolith

See how Ruby powers the next generation of innovative startups and products

Bolt.new logo

AI-native browser tool for building and deploying full-stack web apps with zero code. Launched 2024; $40M ARR in 5 months.

Lago logo

Open-source platform for metering, billing, and usage-based pricing. Flexible, self-hosted, developer-first. YC-backed.

Y Combinator YC Backed
Stepful logo

Online healthcare training for entry-level roles in four months. Tech-driven, accessible to those with a high school diploma.

Y Combinator YC Backed
AccessGrid logo

API for issuing NFC keys for Apple and Google Wallet for startups, access control integrators, and large enterprises.

Binti logo

Mission-driven tech company using software to help children find families, streamlining foster/adoption, and has helped over 110,000 families.

Suppli logo

Suppli provides digital payments and accounts receivable (AR) software solutions for construction materials supply and distribution sector.

NexHealth logo

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 logo

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.

Y Combinator YC Backed
Sixfold logo

Insurtech startup that utilizes generative AI to optimize insurance underwriting processes.

Cactus logo

AI-powered business assistant that answers, qualifies, and follows up with every lead around the clock—so you never miss a customer, call, or opportunity.

CorePilot   logo

AI-powered Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform specifically designed to streamline and automate workflows within the aviation aftermarket.

Tend logo

Tend is for people with full lives who need clear visibility of their finances without the burden of traditional budgeting.

Sunchaser logo

Collaborative on-call management tool for engineering teams, integrating seamlessly with Slack and PagerDuty to automate shift coverage and streamline incident response.

Coracomputer logo

AI-powered email agent that triages, drafts, and responds to messages autonomously, letting you manage your inbox with minimal effort.

Terminalwire logo

Developer tool for building and deploying modern, web-integrated command-line interfaces: Terminalwire streams server-side commands to users’ terminals with seamless cross-platform support, authentication, and instant updates.

Superconductor logo

Superconductor lets you run many coding agents in parallel, with a live browser preview for each one, on desktop or mobile. Launch many agents for each ticket to boost your productivity.

AI Squared logo

Open-source reverse ETL platform to activate warehouse data into SaaS apps. One-click self-hosting, customizable connectors, and built for modern data teams.

Recognize logo

Employee recognition and rewards program that is high-impact, affordable, and easy to launch. Even for frontline teams across multiple locations.

Fin by Intercom logo

In ten minutes, see Fin, Intercom’s AI support agent, resolve frontline questions with instant, human-quality answers across chat, email, voice, and social. It learns from your procedures, docs, and policies, and keeps your tone of voice. We will show the Fin AI Engine in action. It clarifies intent, retrieves the right knowledge, and validates responses to reduce hallucinations. Accuracy and reliability scale with you. For builders, we will cover setup that is often under an hour, precise control with Guidance, Tasks, and Workflows, actionable Insights, and integrations with Intercom’s Customer Service Suite or your existing help desk.

Ubicloud logo

Open source alternative to AWS. Ubicloud provides cloud services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, Leaseweb, or AWS Bare Metal.

Y Combinator YC Backed
Chatwithwork logo

Finally, a way to find that thing buried in your work accounts, and to write more with what you find. Pulls context from Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Presentations to draft emails and documents. Built with Rails 8, RubyLLM and the Async stack.

Thatch logo

Thatch makes it easy to give your team great healthcare. You set a budget, and your employees spend it the way that works best for them.

Key Topics: Ruby and Startups

New Open Source & AI Tooling icon

New Open Source & AI Tooling

New open source and tools built for the most ambitious Ruby and Rails apps, including Ruby & AI.

Ruby at Scale icon

Ruby at Scale

Stories from Ruby startups that grew huge: how they scaled their product and teams.

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CTO Panel

Let's learn from the CTOs of multi-billion dollar Ruby companies: Gusto, Chime, Clio, and more.

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Ruby Startup Demos

Get inspired by the hottest products built with Ruby and Rails today.

Brought to you by the SF Ruby Meetup

The Ruby community in the SF Bay area is full of energy today: we gather 70-100 people at the SF Ruby meetup every month for deep technical talks and conversations. Check out talk recordings at Ruby Events.

"Truly the best meetup in SF. Had a great time tonight!"

Lev Lazinsky
Lev Lazinsky
Head of Solutions @ Dagger

"It's kinda ridonkulous each month there's a Ruby meetup in SF with as many attendees as most really great annual Ruby/Rails conferences I see folks organizing around the world."

Brad Gessler
Brad Gessler
Founder @ Terminalwire

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