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Our journey began with the Warsaw Meetup series, where a shared love for Ruby brought developers together. In July 2023, we celebrated this community with the inaugural Ruby Warsaw Community Conference, welcoming over 100 developers from across Europe.
In February 2025, Cracow became the stage for our winter edition, where participants explored new ideas, shared their expertise, and forged lasting connections in a vibrant atmosphere.
Building on these experiences, we’re excited to announce that in 2026 we’ll meet again in Cracow continuing the tradition of bringing the Ruby community together for inspiring talks, practical workshops, and exceptional networking.
Why you should
join the event
Ruby Community Conference is an event, where Ruby lovers come together to show off their passion and keep the Ruby community alive. We're here to prove that Ruby is still going strong! With workshops and talks for all levels of experience, there's plenty to learn and discover.
Join us as we celebrate Ruby and all its possibilities!
The names to remember
Meet the
speakers
speaker: Obie Fernandez — Kickass Consulting
Obie Fernandez is a Ruby and Rails pioneer, and best-selling author of The Rails Way. With three decades in software and a string of successful startups—including Hashrocket and Andela—he's helped shape the Rails community from the start. Obie now leads AI and developer experience initiatives at Shopify, and still finds time to DJ and make music in Mexico City.
topic: Ruby & AI conversation
A conversation about the intersection of Ruby and AI technologies, exploring opportunities and challenges.
speaker: Irina Nazarova — Evil Martians
CEO at Evil Martians, co-founder of AnyCable and organizer of the SF Ruby meetup and conference, Irina's passion is to support and champion startups on Rails. A fan of Ruby, open source, and long walks in San Francisco.
topic: Startups on Rails: 2026
A part of the “Startups on Rails” series, this talk shares fresh findings from interviews with some of the most ambitious new founders—including recent YC grads—who deliberately chose Ruby and Rails to move faster than their peers. Through these conversations, it examines why they bet on Rails (fast iteration, boring reliability, or something else entirely) and what still feels missing, from modern frontend and reactive UI paths to clear AI integration patterns and better performance/dev tooling. Along the way, the talk lightly weaves in the past year’s debates about whether Rails is still a good startup choice, how Ruby 4.0 and new type systems change the story, and why, despite periodic “Rails is declining” threads, these founders are quietly shipping the next generation of products on Ruby.
speaker: Marco Roth
Full-stack Ruby on Rails developer and open source enthusiast, Marco is a core contributor to Hotwire and StimulusReflex. He’s passionate about pushing the boundaries of real-time, server-rendered apps with HTML-over-the-wire, and maintains several key libraries in the Hotwire and Rails ecosystem.
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Stay tuned, 1 more speaker coming soon!
Get Involved
Workshops
Building AI Apps in Ruby and Rails with RubyLLM
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Deploy with Kamal: A Hands-On Workshop
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Building a Live Kanban Board with Hotwire and Rails
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Hotwire Native - Build Mobile Apps the Rails Way
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Model Context Protocol in Ruby on Rails
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Explore
The Venue
The Manggha Museum is not just a unique architectural gem but also a hub of cultural and technological innovation, making it the perfect venue for our gathering of Ruby enthusiasts. Did you know that the Ruby programming language was created in Japan?
Holding our event in a space dedicated to Japanese art and technology is a wonderful nod to Ruby's origins.
Let's celebrate
Afterparty
WHEN: 13.03.2026, STARTING AT: TBD
WHERE: The Manggha Museum, Cracow
Wrap up the day with beer, food, and great company. Share your coding triumphs, share ideas, and make connections for your next big project. Let’s make it a night to remember!
