September 28 & 29, 2026 A two day, single track conference in the heart of Boulder, Colorado. Stay tuned for speaker announcements!
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We're so excited to be able to show you our tshirt design this year from @beflagrant.com! Gonna be another good one 👁️ (previous designs attached...)
Make sure you check them out for digital services! beflagrant.com/services/buil…
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We're excited to welcome back Alan Riddlehoover to RMR!
250,000 tech workers laid off in a year. Alan is going to share the secrets of NASA's human computers for three strategies to stay indispensable in the age of AI. ❤️
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UFOs. Theology. Psychedelics. What they share is a framework for understanding ontological shock, and AI is giving programmers exactly that. @_Travis_Turner 's talk is unlike anything else on the schedule. Strap in. 👽✨
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Pager duty panic is optional. Sonja Peterson's incident response training plan will turn you into the engineer who *fixes* the outage—not the one who hides from it. 🚨 Catch her in Boulder in September! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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ERB templates that actually understand HTML. Phoenix LiveView-style reactivity with zero new JS framework. @marcoroth_ is unveiling Herb + ReActionView for Rails 8.2. 🌿
Welcoming Marco back to Boulder for RMR!
(Get your tix here: lnkd.in/gwG_WMZj)
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AI can write 1,000 tests in an hour. But should it? @i_ribon9 is bringing the philosophy of *fewer, better* tests to the AI era. Quality over quantity, and confidence over coverage. 🎯 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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6 microservices. 4 languages. 2 databases. OR... one simple Rails app. @giovapanasiti rebuilt a corporate RAG system the Rails way and he's here to prove Rails developers aren't second-class citizens in the AI conversation. 🔥 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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That TODO comment from 2019? It's now the code you're afraid to touch. After 13 years consulting on Rails apps, Fernando Perales knows the smell of decay and will be joining us at RMR in September! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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~400 lines of Ruby => one fully functional AI agent. @DRBragg is demystifying the magic so you can build your own from scratch. Just Ruby. 🤖 rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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Mindfulness. Growth mindset. Habit building. Deep work. Christine Seeman has four research-backed techniques to level up your brain without burning out. Your career isn't 100% code! 🧠
Welcoming her back to the Rocky Mountains in September! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/
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STI? Abstract classes? Delegated types? @nicoerlichman is mapping the messiest part of Active Record so you can model with confidence. No more guessing which tool fits the job. 🗺️
(Full program: rockymtnruby.dev/#program )
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Pro bono since 2006, from weekend hacks to three-year commitments. Ben Reubenstein is showing us how to put Ruby to work for a cause, and why you'll probably get more out of it than you give. ❤️
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90 days. New codebase. Shipping value while still figuring out where the service objects live. @afomera's field report on AI-assisted onboarding is the playbook for new devs and their teams. Get your early bird ticket still! rockymtnruby.dev/tickets
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We're excited to welcome back Sapphire sponsor, @gustohq! They've sent speakers, they've sent teams to attend. They have one of the biggest Rails apps in the world AND they hire in Colorado. <3
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TIckets are now open! Get your early bird pricing until 8/15. rockymtnruby.dev/tickets/
And if you want an idea what you're paying for, you can check out the full playlist from last year: piped.video/watch?v=eK0YK5y4…
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We're so excited to welcome the first sponsor for the 2026 season - crowd favorite @honeybadger.io ! Great both for their support of the Ruby community and for keeping our apps and outages ticking smoothly.
honeybadger.io/
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🗣️ We're coming up quickly on our final deadline for CFPs! We're looking for topics of all kinds and suited for all Ruby audiences - let us know what you're thinking about ♦️
rockymtnruby.dev/#cfp
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Great news for your TGIF! Submissions are open for Rocky Mountain Ruby. Put some words to paper now and in Sept you'd be in beautiful Boulder Colorado sharing what you love about:
♦️ Ruby
👩💻 community
📲 tech
🤖 and yes, even AI.
Open until Jun 30, frens
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Good evening, Rocky Mountain Ruby! We'll will be sharing media, updates, and videos in the next few weeks, but for now, thank you for all the camaraderie and making Bekki cry!
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One more thank you for all our sponsors -for funding, in-kind donations and services, and podcasts for spreading the word! ♥️💎
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Thank you for sharing your time in preparing and presenting! Great crop of lightning talks this year!
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More lightning talks! Importantly, many of our sponsors send devs, who are represented here talking about their own passion projects (Caribou, Checkr, Meraki)
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We're so very excited to have André Arko (@indirect.io) with us today presenting what makes and keeps an app production-ready.
... and I hear he'll be back on the stage for lightning talks too!
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Max VelDink of @shopify giving us the process and cultural tools to manage the big changes of a Rails upgrade - welcome to the Rocky Mountain Ruby stage!
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Co-organizer Bekki flipped the camera around on our mid-morning stretch, showing all our Ruby friends including our volunteers and @meraki folks anchoring the front row!
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Recapping our AI conversations so far this week, Christine Seeman blends Rush 🎸 in asking how we blend a thoughtful Rubyist mentality 👥 with a future of GenAI usage 🤖
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Erin Pintozzi, to an audience of 80% technologists who got here through unconventional means, giving us tools for ensuring the future still includes junior devs
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With a callback to Rocky Mountain Ruby of yesteryear, Sean Collins is leading us through simplifying the complexity of an app with Hanami slicing and layers
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Make sure you stop by the table and get extra stickers to share the @beflagrant love with coworkers and fam!
beflagrant.com/
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Jeff Cohen and the persistent question of a developer's existence - if the key to success is always learning new things, what does that mean? And how can you improve how you learn?
TheAhaMap.com
ALT a slide with the question "how many more times will I need to learn something new?"
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Day two, ten degrees warmer, let's gooo!
ALT photo of etown Hall with early morning lighting
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Scott Werner (@scottwernerd) is sketching the legacy of early Ruby history: creative expression, testing, design driven, and whimsy, and where we can go from here
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Rashnadeep (@rtdp) will jump in with us about reading Rails source code, but first! Some pretty Colorado views 🫶🏞️
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Tyler Lemburg (and Benedict Cumberbatch?) explaining the fundamentals of mutation testing in Ruby
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Jonathan Woodard getting ready to
🕹️ 1. Convince us that Rails can be a game engine
🤯 2. Teach something about Rails we didn't know!
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Phillip Campbell on what happens when he explains to other developers what it's like to work on the massive job queue infrastructure - dedicated on call team, the volume of jobs, and more
ALT slide with the text: Inspiration for this talk 😮
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With 7 years at GitHub - Joel Hawksley reflects on the evolution of UI and Rails architecture and the trends he's seen and expects
ALT Joel's slide showing the 3 main themes from working on UI - native, abstraction paradox, cost of frontend
ALT Joel with a slide depicting his growth from baby to old man as a developer
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Tess Griffin (in a pokeball shirt!) breaks down the classic Pokemon missingno item duplication bug.
IT'S ALL ZUBAT
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First keynote with @baweaver - We Who Remember Magic!
Chat more about this talk and every talk in Slack
ALT Brandon Weaver on stage with first slide showing an artistic magical background
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Aww yeah swag check in, on a rainy Monday morning! Look at that sweet design from @beflagrant
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Getting kicked off at RMR!
Make sure you get set up on Wi-Fi.
Set up on Slack
Start making lunch plans!
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👀 Did you see our schnazzy new site redesign this year? It's the incredible work of Flagrant, who's been a great partner for us for multiple years now!
If you like it, please check out their lineup of creative and tech services: beflagrant.com/
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We get to announce one more exciting speaker joining us! Jeff Cohen will also be retaking the RMR stage to share how to build a lifelong framework for learning how to learn
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A big thank you to our Emerald Sponsor @checkr for helping us keep RMR going - check them out if you're interested in streamlining your hiring with the fastest, most accurate background checks!
checkr.com/
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