Scaling RubyEvents.org - The mission to index all Ruby conferences @ BelfastRuby Meetup, June 2025

RubyEvents.org (formerly RubyVideo.dev) is building a complete index of Ruby conference talks! Learn the technical, organizational, and community-driven strategies used to scale this project, along with the challenges and surprises of managing such a unique resource.

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1. Scaling RubyEvents.org: The mission to index all Ruby conferences Marco Roth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor
2. Marco Roth 👋 t @marcoroth_ M @marcoroth@ruby.social g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor b @marcoroth.dev
3. I ❤ Open Source
4. CableReady Core Team Maintainer
5. rubyvideo.dev
6. What is RubyEvents.org? Why are we doing this? What's next for the platform? How you can help!
7. How did we get here?
9. RailsConf 2022
11. Multi-Track Conference
12. 💭 🕰
14. 👨💻
15. When is the next Ruby Conference?
17. RubyConferences.org
21. I checked the list and noticed RailsConf 2023 is missing
22. 👨💻
23. I open a pull request
25. Conferences 2023 + First Talk
26. Attended 9 conferences and gave my first talk in 2023
27. Conferences 2024
28. Talks 2024
29. Attended 12 conferences and gave 8 conference talks in 2024
30. I ❤ conferences + meetups
32. 🇱🇻
33. 🇨🇭
34. A desire to create build a Ruby events platform
35. Even if it is just for getting an overview myself
36. Kept adding new conference to RubyConferences.org as soon as they were announced
37. May 2023
38. Shared some ideas with Jon from RubyConferences.org
39. iCal Integration Meetups A design refresh
40. and became a maintainer eventually and started working on it
41. June 2023
42. RubyVideo.dev appeared
43. https://x.com/adrienpoly/status/1669944385675378688
45. "Aggregate all Ruby-related videos in one place"
46. Both of the websites kept growing and improved
47. The website have come a long way
49. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
50. The Ruby Events Platform
51. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
52. On a mission to index all Ruby events
53. Why do we need such a platform?
54. Meetup.com is slowly going down
55. The online Ruby community is spread apart multiple platforms
56. It would be great to have at least have all Ruby events all in one place.
58. 712 talks 549 talks
59. 2023 had 28 conferences 2024 had 38 conferences 2025 has 20 conferences (so far)
60. From Irina Nazarova's Tropical on Rails 2025 Keynote
62. https://rubycentral.org/news/anewearforrubycentralevents
63. rubyconferences.org rubyvideo.dev Contributors
64. RubyVideo.dev + RubyConferences.org
65. RubyEvents.org
68. github.com/rubyevents
69. Recovering old talks
70. Recovery of EuRuKo 2009 Videos
72. If you have or know of old conference recordings, we would love to bring them back online and archive them
73. 🥳 🎉
81. My four goals for the platform
82. 1. Make it easy to find anything related to Ruby events
83. 2. Support the Ruby community with hosting events
84. 3. Present it in an nice looking way
85. 4. Encourage more people to attend in-person events
86. https://rubyevents.org/organisations/belfastruby X
91. How do we scale RubyEvents?
92. How is RubyEvents built?
93. We are trying to be as close as possible to the Rails 8 defaults
94. An open source reference application
95. Ruby 3.4
96. Rails 8
98. Page View Transitions API
100. Solid Queue and Solid Cache
101. Tailwind CSS + daisy UI
106. The app is simple and fast enough, since it just has to render the talks from the database
107. Since we use the default Rails stack with the preconfigured defaults we haven't really had the need to tweak performance
110. What else do we need to scale?
111. The heart of RubyEvents
112. Data/Content
113. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
114. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
115. data ├── aloha-rubyconf/ ├── ancient-city-ruby/ ├── arrrrcamp/ [...] ├── vienna-rb/ ├── wnb-rb/ ├── wroclove-rb/
116. data ├── aloha-rubyconf │ ├── playlists.yml │ │ │ └── aloha-rubyconf-2012 │ └── videos.yml │ ├── ancient-city-ruby │ ├── playlists.yml │ │ │ ├── ancient-city-ruby-2013 │ │ └── videos.yml │ │ │ ├── ancient-city-ruby-2014 │ │ └── videos.yml
117. - title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "scheduled" video_id: "irina-nazarova-tropical-on-rails-2025" description: "..."
118. - title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "scheduled" video_id: "irina-nazarova-tropical-on-rails-2025" description: "..."
119. - title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "youtube" video_id: "_eLfPFxztjs" description: "..."
120. - title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "youtube" video_id: "_eLfPFxztjs" description: "..." slides_url: "https://speakerdeck.com/irinanaza..."
121. - title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" raw_title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "scheduled" video_id: "irina-nazarova-tropical-on-rails-2025" description: "..." - title: "Scaling Rails: The Journey to 200M Notifications" raw_title: "Scaling Rails: The Journey to 200M Notifications" speakers: - Gustavo Araújo event_name: "Tropical on Rails 2025" date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: "scheduled" video_id: "gustavo-araujo-tropical-on-rails-2025"
122. rails db:seed
123. How do we scale the content?
124. YouTube Playlists
125. RubyConferences.org Automated Pull Requests
126. So we can fetch events from iCal, Meetup.com, Luma
128. We need to port this over to RubyVideo.dev
129. Ways you can help contribute
130. Using LLMs to automate the addition of new events
132. rubyevents.org/contributions
133. Future Ideas
134. Attendees Speakers Meetup organizers Conference organizers Sponsors
135. Attendees
138. Speakers
140. Call For Papers Meetups looking for speakers
141. Meetup Organizers
142. Find Speakers Keep the local community engaged Publish events and talk recordings
143. Conference Organizers
144. Run Call on Papers Manage Conferences through the platform Find potential sponsors
145. Sponsors
148. Artwork
153. Collectibles
155. Hotwire Native App
160. Android version coming soon Thanks @leonvogt
161. It's open source.
162. As vanilla Rails as possible
163. Reference application Rails + Hotwire + Hotwire Native
164. Opportunities for early- career engineers to work on a real open-source app
165. You are welcome to check out the code
166. You are welcome to learn from the code
167. You are welcome to improve the code
169. I'm more than happy to help you get started with contributing.
170. Get in touch!
171. I would love to hear your opinions. How you are going to use RubyEvents? What features are you missing?
173. Nick Schwaderer 🙏
174. Thank you 🙏 t @marcoroth_ M @marcoroth@ruby.social g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth b @marcoroth.dev l /in/marco-roth t @rubyevents_org M @RubyEvents@ruby.social g rubyevents.org g @rubyevents b @rubyevents.org l /company/rubyevents