Scaling RubyVideo.dev: The mission to index all Ruby conferences @ Tropical on Rails 2025, São Paulo, Brazil

RubyVideo.dev is building a complete index of Ruby conference talks - a massive undertaking! 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, including exclusive announcements.

RubyVideo.dev started with the goal of indexing every Ruby conference talk, but it has grown into something much bigger — a new hub for the Ruby community. Beyond simply cataloging talks, the project is evolving into a destination for Ruby conferences, meetups, and events. It’s goal is to unify the experience for speakers, attendees, organizers, and sponsors alike.

Similary, RubyConferences.org has been around for a long time and has served as an important resource to the community to let people discover Ruby events like conferences and meetups.

We want to level up the expierence for the community. Imagine a platform where event schedules, sponsors, pictures, speakers, talks, slides, transcripts, summaries, and more are all seamlessly accessible. We aim to provide the tools and resources necessary to level up the experience for everyone involved.

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1. Scaling RubyVideo.dev: The mission to index all Ruby conferences Marco Roth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor
2. What is RubyVideo.dev? Why are we doing this? What's next for the platform? How you can help!
3. Marco Roth 👋 t @marcoroth_ M @marcoroth@ruby.social g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor b @marcoroth.dev
4. I ❤ Open Source
5. CableReady Core Team Maintainer
6. rubyvideo.dev
8. 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
31. 🇧🇷
32. 🇯🇵
33. A desire to create build a Ruby events platform
34. Even if it is just for getting an overview myself
35. Kept adding new conference to RubyConferences.org as soon as they were announced
36. May 2023
37. Shared some ideas with Jon from RubyConferences.org
38. iCal Integration Meetups A design refresh
39. and became a maintainer eventually and started working on it
40. June 2023
41. RubyVideo.dev appeared
42. https://x.com/adrienpoly/status/1669944385675378688
44. "Aggregate all Ruby-related videos in one place"
45. Both of the websites kept growing and improved
46. The website have come a long way
48. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
49. The Ruby Events Platform
57. My four goals for the platform
58. 1. Make it easy to find anything related to Ruby events
59. 2. Support the Ruby community with hosting events
60. 3. Present it in an nice looking way
61. 4. Encourage more people to attend in-person events
62. https://www.rubyvideo.dev/organisations/tropicalrb X
66. How do we scale RubyVideo?
67. How is RubyVideo built?
68. We are trying to be as close as possible to the Rails 8 defaults
69. An open source reference application
70. Ruby 3.4
71. Rails 8
73. Page View Transitions API
75. Solid Queue and Solid Cache
76. Tailwind CSS + daisy UI
81. The app is simple and fast enough, since it just has to render the talks from the database
82. Since we use the default Rails stack with the preconfigured defaults we haven't really had the need to tweak performance
85. What else do we need to scale?
86. The heart of RubyVideo
87. Content.
88. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
89. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
90. data ├── aloha-rubyconf/ ├── ancient-city-ruby/ ├── arrrrcamp/ [...] ├── vienna-rb/ ├── wnb-rb/ ├── wroclove-rb/
91. 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
92. - 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"
93. rails db:seed
94. How do we scale the content?
95. YouTube Playlists
96. RubyConferences.org Automated Pull Requests
97. So we can fetch events from iCal, Meetup.com, Luma
99. We need to port this over to RubyVideo.dev
100. How far are we?
102. Ways you can help contribute
104. rubyvideo.dev/contributions
105. Future Ideas
106. Attendees Speakers Meetup organizers Conference organizers Sponsors
107. Attendees
110. Speakers
112. Call For Papers Meetups looking for speakers
113. Meetup Organizers
114. Find Speakers Keep the local community engaged Publish events and talk recordings
115. Conference Organizers
116. Run Call on Papers Manage Conferences through the platform Find potential sponsors
117. Sponsors
120. Exclusive Announcements
121. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
122. On a mission to index all Ruby events
123. Why do we need such a platform?
124. Meetup.com is slowly going down
125. The online Ruby community is spread apart multiple platforms
126. It would be great to have at least have all Ruby events all in one place.
128. 712 talks 549 talks
129. 2023 had 28 conferences 2024 had 38 conferences 2025 has 20 conferences (so far)
131. rubyconferences.org rubyvideo.dev Contributors
132. RubyVideo.dev + RubyConferences.org
133. RubyEvents.org
134. github.com/rubyevents
135. Recovering old talks
136. Recovery of EuRuKo 2009 Videos
138. If you have or know of old conference recordings, we would love to bring them back online and archive them
139. 🥳 🎉
140. One more thing
141. Hotwire Native App
146. It's open source.
147. Like RubyEvents.org itself
148. Vanilla Rails as possbile
149. Reference application Rails + Hotwire + Hotwire Native
150. Opportunities for early-career engineers to work on a real open- source app
151. You are welcome to check out the code
152. You are welcome to learn from the code
153. You are welcome to improve the code
154. https://github.com/rubyevents/rubyevents
155. I'm more than happy to help you get started with contributing.
156. Get in touch!
157. I would love to hear your opinions. How you are going to use RubyEvents? What features are you missing?
158. Special Thanks Jon Allured Cameron Daigle Adrien Poly
159. 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