Join YC's Ruby Meetup on August 13th at Our New SF Headquarters

YC is co-hosting a Ruby Meetup on August 13th to bring together fellow rubyists! We’ll have tech talks from YC founders sharing their novel uses of Ruby in the wild — and how it’s not the Ruby you tried 10+ years ago.

Speakers so far:

- Jared Friedman (YC Group Partner & Scribd, S06) will give an opening talk about the history of software at YC: how we chose Rails, who wrote the first MR to our codebase, why Bookface is a YC founder’s secret weapon, and how Rails powers all of YC.

- Daniel Farina (Ubicloud, W24) has been building infrastructure control planes in Ruby for 13 years - first at Heroku and now at Ubicloud. Daniel will share some war stories, as well as his five favorite “features” that make Ruby particularly powerful for building infrastructure code.

- Kelsey Pedersen (Capsule, S22) built Capsule on a V1 vector database with Rails, Postgres and Active Record with the PGVector plugin. She’s happy to share learnings at pitfalls, as well as how she uses webhooks and rakes to automate workflows and help keep the team small.

- Keith Schacht (Mystery.org, S17) started coding Ruby in ‘05, and is still at it — building ChatGPT in Rails (vs Python) and keeping up with stimulus, new morphing, and Turbo Native. He’ll do some live coding of these new features, and wants to hear what you think!

We'll be providing dinner & refreshments for attendees, and there will be ample opportunity to meet with speakers, folks from YC and network as well.

Also note: many YC companies are hiring for ruby engineers — including Y Combinator’s Software Team. Ask us about open roles!

If you’re interested, please RSVP below to join us -- we have limited capacity, but we'll try to get as many Rubyistas in the room as possible.

https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-ruby-meetup

Let me know if you have questions, and hope to see you at our new SF office!