Building the Future with Ruby

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

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

We're gathering ~450 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

Rails X

Marco Roth

ReActionView: An ActionView-Compatible ERB Engine

Obie Fernandez

Ruby & AI conversation

Sarah Mei

The Role of Software Design in an AI World

Colleen Schnettler

From code to customers: technical marketing for people who'd rather be building

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Adrian Marin

Talk details coming soon

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.

Demo by Alex Kalderimis
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
Demo by Wyatt Ades
AccessGrid logo

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

Demo by Auston Bunsen
Suppli logo

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

Demo by David Paluy
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!

Demo by Matt Duszynski
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
Demo by Zach Kamran
Sixfold logo

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

Demo by Brian Moseley
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.

Y Combinator YC Backed
Demo by Avinash Joshi
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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.

Demo by James Kerr
Sunchaser logo

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

Demo by André Arko
Coracomputer logo

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

Demo by Kieran Klaassen
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.

Demo by Brad Gessler
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.

Demo by Arjun Singh
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.

Demo by Nagendra Hassan Dhanakeerthi
Recognize logo

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

Demo by Peter Phillips
Fin by Intercom logo

See Fin, Intercom's AI support agent, resolve customer questions with human-quality answers across chat, email, voice, and social. Learns from your docs and policies while keeping your tone. We'll demo the Fin AI Engine: intent clarification, knowledge retrieval, and response validation to reduce hallucinations. Quick setup, precise control with Guidance and Workflows, and seamless integrations.

Demo by Ryan Sherlock
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
Demo by Dan Farina
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.

Demo by Carmine Paolino
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.

Demo by Bart de Water
Finta logo

Finta is the new default for startups to handle accounting and taxes. Within 10 minutes, you get automated bookkeeping, effortless tax filing, and real‑time insights.

Y Combinator YC Backed
Demo by Andy Wang
AngelList logo

AngelList is the platform for startups—connecting founders with investors, talent, and resources to build and scale companies.

Demo by Chamod Gamage
PlanetScale logo

The database platform for developers. PlanetScale provides MySQL-compatible serverless database with built-in scaling, branching, and non-blocking schema changes.

Demo by Sam Lambert
llamapress logo

AI-powered content platform built with Ruby on Rails.

Demo by Kody Kendall
Cleary logo

AI-powered HR platform transforming how companies support and engage their employees. Cleary helps HR teams resolve up to 40% of HR tickets instantly.

Demo by Ryan O'Donnell

See who is already in the clouds! Join in and create your own Cloud Card!

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.

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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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