Rails World 2026 Ticket Giveaway

The Ruby on Rails Podcast is giving away one ticket to Rails World 2026 in Austin, Texas. The prize includes conference admission only. Travel, lodging, and all other expenses are the responsibility...

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RubyEvents.org February 2026 Newsletter

In February, RubyEvents had 12 contributors and 55 PRs merged! This month, we had RubyForGood - Belgium, Belfast RubyFest, and Fukuoka RubyistKaigi 05. We're looking forward to Ruby Community Conferen...

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PaperCall.io - Blastoff Rails

Blastoff Rails is a conference for Ruby and Rails developers that love building things.

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Rails Luminary 2025 - Giving Back to the Rails Community

I'm deeply grateful and truly honored to be named a Rails Luminary this year. Recognition like this only exists because of a community that cares about long-term contribution, and I don't take that li...

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Surprising the 2025 Rails Luminary winner Marco Roth in Zurich

YouTube video by Ruby on Rails

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Congrats Marco Roth: 2025 Rails Luminary

We are stoked to share that the Rails Core team has announced Marco Roth as the 2025 Rails Luminary.

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The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership

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People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing

For context, last week I wrote a post bringing to light a number of things Andre Arko had said and done (/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-sides-in-the-rubygems-fiasco/) in the past as a way to provide some context. Context that might explain why any of the principal actors involved in the RubyGems maintainer crisis (summarized well up to that point by Emanuel Maiberg (https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/)) would take such otherwise inexplicable actions and then fail to even attempt to explain them. Today, Jean shed some light on Shopify's significant investments in Ruby and Rails open-source (https://byroot.github.io/opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html), and it actually paints a picture of corporate investment in open source done right. (Disclosure: I know and am friends with several people who work at Shopify on these teams, and unless they're all lying to me, they sure seem to prioritize their work based on what Ruby and Rails need, as opposed to what Shopify wants.) Jean went a step further by contrasting Shopify's approach with the perverse incentives at play when individuals or groups receive sponsorships to do open source. He also drew a pretty clear line of those incentives playing out based on how RubyGems and Bundler maintainers reacted to Shopify's feature submissions. Read the post, it's good.

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Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what…

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Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, t...

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Rails World: Amanda Perino - The Ruby Gems Podcast

Amanda Perino, Executive Director of the Rails Foundation, shares insights into Rails World's evolution and the foundation's growth strategy for supporting the global Ruby on Rails community. From cre...

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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

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1Password joins the Rails Foundation: Strengthening the community, empowering developers | 1Password

1Password is joining the Rails Foundation as a core member. Learn more about the announcement and what it means for Kolide and other 1Password products.

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