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The Blue Ridge Ruby 2027 CFP is OPEN!

WNB.rb members, including first-time speakers, have taken the Blue Ridge Ruby stage. We're excited to help bring even more women and non-binary voices to it!

Details: www.rubyforum.org/t/blue-ridge...

#WNBdotrb #BlueRidgeRuby #RubyLang #RubyCommunity #CFP
November 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
christine.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
From the @wnb_rb lunch at @blueridgeruby , I am so glad we were able to meet up together!
A group of WNB.rb members all smiling at the camera in Asheville, NC on the street. It's a sunny day in down town Asheville.
May 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
christine.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy
I just did a write-up of #blueridgeruby it really was a lovely conference with great conversations. The organizers @blueridgeruby did a wonderful job of making sure conversations and community building were huge part of the conference. I loved getting to meet and hangout with @ChaelCodes […]
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ruby.social
May 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
etagwerker.com
⚡️ Here are the slides from my lightning talk at @blueridgeruby.com: Teaching Claude to Upgrade Rails

It’s all #opensource so give it a try and let me know if it works well for you (or not!)

Thanks to @kevinjm.bsky.social for the photos!

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#BlueRidgeRuby #Claude
Teaching Claude Code to Upgrade Rails Blue Ridge Ruby What if... Claude could upgrade Rails for me? FastRuby.io Ruby Maintenance, Done Right Why you no dual boot, Claude?
May 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
etagwerker.com
It's always been a marathon. Train accordingly. @thomascannon.me closing @blueridgeruby.com ‘26!

#blueridgeruby
It's always been a marathon Train accordingly PRACTICAL COMPUTER Thomas Cannon Blue Ridge Ruby, May 2026 The only numbered list slide in my talk 1. Break up your work into commits that tell a story 2. Use the free time you gain to experiment and grow 3. Build model train stations to practice freely, with autonomy 4. Concoct larger bodies of work from the breadcrumbs of commits and research 5. Do all this in small chunks, rather than giant sprints What makes a good commit? Focus on the why, you already have the how The human-readable header The changeset A short summary of a logical changeset * Simple formatting is your friend * Remember your references * See also: https://example.co... * Focus on clanity. Write for humans. Don't create walls of paragraphs, signifying nothing. > And if you need to quote someone # or show some example code * You'U be glad you did The tidal wave of feeds & newsletters The Great Project Bucket In The Sky Guides & Writeups Side projects Prototypes "TIL" microposts Collecting (and organizing) a research library Half-baked drafts Riffs & scraps of paper A steady stream of (mostly) organized commits Breadcrumbs of the work you're already doing
May 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
etagwerker.com
I love to see these ideas at a Ruby conference: Growth vs. fixed mindset

Christine Seeman presenting Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking) at @blueridgeruby.com

#blueridgeruby #mindfulness
Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking) Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 @christine @ruby.social Cue Routine Reward The Habit Loop @christine@ruby.social → Routine A, Cue Reward ② The Habit Loop The Negative Habit Loop @christine@ruby.social GROWTH MINDSET (VS.) FIXED MINDSET MBRACE TALLENGI LEARNS FROM FEEDBACK AND - CRITICISM INTELLIGENCE AND TALENT CAN BE DEVELOPED AVOIDS CHALLENGES MELIES AND LESS EFFORT IVES U ASIL • 1AM A FAILURE KEEPS TRYING AND NEVER GIVES UP PERSISTS IN THE ACE OF SETBACKS ™ INSPIRED BY OTHERS SUCCESS I WILL LEARN FROM FAILURE THIS WITARD WORK LTAKE LIMEAND WANITO KEE EARNING @BELIEVEPHO I ALWAYS FAIL WILL NEVER IMPROVE THY SHOULD I BOTHER? @christine@ruby.socia
May 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
etagwerker.com
So ready for day 2 at @blueridgeruby.com!

Brooke Kuhlmann kicking off his talk on Terminus: A Hanami + htmx web application for e-ink devices

#hanami #htmx #eink #blueridgeruby
Brooke talking about Terminus and Hanami on stage at Blue Ridge Ruby Jeremy saying a few words about Fast Ruby, proud sponsor of the conference Judoscale, proud sponsor of the conference Hanami M Repositories Structs Actions Views alchemists.lo/articles/hanami Views
May 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
etagwerker.com
So excited to attend my first @blueridgeruby.com conference!

@jeremysmith.co kicking off day one of the conference. ♥️

#BlueRidgeRuby #Ruby
Jeremy starting the conference on stage Ashevillagers generated images by the conference app Thanks to the sponsors of the conference and sponsors slide Jeremy presenting the Ruby passport on stage
April 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
ombulabs.ai
Now David presents his talk on LLM Telemetry & Evals as First-Class Rails Concerns at @blueridgeruby.com

“How do we evaluate the quality of the responses of a model?”

RubricLLM is a tool to help us judge the answers provided by a model.

#llm #telemetry #genAI #blueridgeruby
LLM Tellemetry & Evals as First-Class Rails Concerns David Paluy- @dpalluy The Model Decision We want to test three categorles: Example Why Model Type Open Source Llama 5, Kimi 2.5 Cost control, self-hosting Proprietary GPT-1.1, Claude Best quality (maybe?) Bine-tuned Our custom model Texas-specific knowledge Using Rubynty- one interface, any provider: BabyLLM. chateodot: "gpt-4.2"2 RubyLLM.chat(codel: "1la8a-3-70b") RubyLLM.chat(eodot: "tex-support-ft-v1") "It Works" Is Not a Test Drontctsays: Teworks. = OA says: "Looks fine." # You guest says: The Ketchup answer was hapti!" Buttv output is non-deterministic. You wouldn't deploy an application without tests. Why depby a prompt without ovals? The Eval Landscape (he 2r010 Gm: Ruly's eval coosystem is young — but growing. leve eval ruby Went itis Rails engine with Generic RAG metrics Lightweight evall framework RADACCOSS You implement it Raw EMP (OpenAl/Anthropic) RubyLLM (any provider) Rails required? Yes No No Custom motics Yes No (ixed set) Yes AV/B NO Basic Paired t-test with p- • oDiaals
May 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
codingcoders.bsky.social
🎙️ New Episode of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it! Episode 60 with @jeremysmith.co

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/epi...

#ruby #Rails #code #coding #coders #podcast #ai #blueridgeruby
Episode 60 - Jeremy Smith
We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
connorshea.bsky.social
Got my Ruby Passport at #BlueRidgeRuby in Asheville this week! Excited to bring it to another Ruby conference in the future :) Great talks and atmosphere, strong recommendation from me.
A red passport with "RUBY PASSPORT" on the front and a large gem icon with two fig leaves underneath sits on a desk. It also says `require "community"` at the top.
May 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
fastruby.io
Learning from permaculture by @johnathayde.com at @blueridgeruby.com

A lot of lessons we can learn from permaculture and apply to sustainable software development and maintenance

#blueridgeruby
Learning from permaculture: sustainable software development John presenting his talk and the first slide Observe and Interact. Catch and Store Energy. Obtain a Yield. Apply Self-Regulation. Use Renewable Resources. Produce No Waste. Principles Design from Patterns to Details. Integrate Rather Than Segregate. Use Small and Slow Solutions. Use and Value Diversity. Use Edges and Value the Marginal. Creatively Use and Respond to Change. The different seasons at the farm. A slide showing the different seasons at the farm EVERY CODEBASE YOU INHERIT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S HORSE FARM.
April 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM