SF Ruby
Nov 10-12, SFJAZZ

Convince your manager

For most of our attendees this is the cheapest conference trip there is: the ticket, and two days. Here is the whole argument on one page, and an email you can send as is.

What it costs

Ticket, Regular (until September 30)
$450
Ticket, company-sponsored (invoiced, no deadline)
$650
Flights
$0 from the Bay Area
Hotel
$0 if you sleep at home
Days out of the office
2 (Nov 10 and 11)
Community day, Nov 12
Optional

The company-sponsored ticket is invoiced and expensable with no deadline. Buying it is what keeps the Regular ticket at $450.

What you bring back

  • The people who wrote your Gemfile are on stage

    Solid Queue, GoodJob, AnyCable, Yabeda, Herb and Ruby core itself, each represented by its author or maintainer. A question asked in the hallway comes back with the answer the docs do not have.

  • Agentic Rails, from people running it in production

    Fin serves 150,000 requests per second from a Rails monolith. Order.co is putting agents to work on a legacy codebase. RubyLLM 2.0 ships here. These are the talks that decide what the next two years of the job look like.

  • Networking is on the schedule

    Every attendee is placed in at least two organized groups of people working on the same kind of system, with a minute on the mic. What comes back is names, not business cards.

  • It is local

    SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin Street. Over 400 people came last year. For anyone in the Bay Area the cost is the ticket and two days.

All 19 speakers, with talk titles and abstracts, are on the speakers page.

The email

Fill in the brackets and send. The copy button puts it on your clipboard as plain text. 

Subject: SF Ruby Startup Conference, Nov 10-11 ($450)

Hi [manager],

I'd like to attend the San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference at SFJAZZ on November 10 and 11 (sfruby.com). It's local, so the full cost is the ticket: $450 until September 30, or $650 on the invoiced company tier with no deadline. Two days out of the office; the community day on the 12th is optional.

Why it's worth it for us:

- The authors and maintainers of tools we run are speaking: Solid Queue (37signals), GoodJob, AnyCable, Yabeda, Herb, and Ruby core (Shopify).
- Four talks on agentic Rails in production, including Fin at 150,000 requests per second and RubyLLM 2.0.
- Networking is organized: I'll be placed in two groups of engineers working on the same kind of system as ours, which is where the useful conversations about [our system] happen.
- I'll write up the talks relevant to [our system] for the team afterwards.

Ticket: https://luma.com/sfrubyconf2026?utm_source=sfruby-manager-email&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=conf2026

Thanks,
[name]
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