Scaling RubyVideo.dev: The mission to index all Ruby conferences @ Ruby Montevideo, March 2025

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. 💭 🕰
13. 👨💻
14. When is the next Ruby conference?
16. RubyConferences.org
20. I checked the list and noticed RailsConf 2023 is missing
21. 👨💻
22. I open a pull request
24. Conferences 2023 + First Talk
25. Attended 9 conferences and gave my first talk in 2023
26. Conferences 2024
27. Talks 2024
28. Attended 12 conferences and gave 8 conference talks in 2024
29. I ❤ conferences + meetups
30. A desire to create build a Ruby events platform
31. Even if it is just for getting an overview myself
32. Kept adding new conference to RubyConferences.org as soon as they were announced
33. May 2023
34. Shared some ideas with Jon from RubyConferences.org
35. iCal Stream for Conferences iCal Stream for CFPs Meetups A design refresh
36. and became a maintainer eventually and started working on it
37. June 2023
38. RubyVideo.dev appeared
39. https://x.com/adrienpoly/status/1669944385675378688
41. "Aggregate all Ruby-related videos in one place"
42. But the website has come a long way
44. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
45. The Ruby Events Platform
53. My four goals for the platform
54. 1. Make it easy to find anything related to Ruby events
55. 2. Support the Ruby community with hosting events
56. 3. Present it in an nice looking way
57. 4. Encourage more people to attend in-person events
58. https://rubyvideo.dev/organisations/ruby-montevideo X
63. On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
64. On a mission to index all Ruby events
65. Why do we need such a platform?
66. Meetup.com is slowly going down
67. The online Ruby community is spread apart multiple platforms
68. I believe it would be great to have at least have all Ruby events all in one place.
69. How do we scale RubyVideo?
70. How is RubyVideo built?
71. We are trying to be as close as possible to the Rails 8 defaults
72. Ruby 3.4
73. Rails 8
75. Page View Transitions API
77. Solid Queue and Solid Cache
78. Tailwind CSS + daisy UI
83. Since we use the default Rails stack we haven't really had the need to tweak performance
84. The app is "simple" enough, since it just has to render the talks from the database
87. What else do we need to scale?
88. The heart of RubyVideo
89. Content.
90. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
91. app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/
92. data ├── aloha-rubyconf/ ├── ancient-city-ruby/ ├── arrrrcamp/ [...] ├── vienna-rb/ ├── wnb-rb/ ├── wroclove-rb/
93. 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
94. - title: "Desmitificando Desafíos Más Allá de la Ingeniería" event_name: "Ruby Montevideo Meetup March 2024" date: "2024 - 03 - 06" published_at: "2024 - 12 - 03" id: "dario-macchi-ruby-montevideo-meetup-march-2024" video_id: "xj1HsT2TCWU" video_provider: "youtube" speakers: - Darío Macchi - title: "Rails Microservices at PeerStreet: Show Me the Code" event_name: "Ruby Montevideo Meetup March 2024" date: "2024 - 03 - 06" published_at: "2024 - 12 - 03" id: "leti-esperon-ruby-montevideo-meetup-march-2024" video_id: "bt_t_C_96UU" video_provider: "youtube" speakers: - Leti Esperón
95. rails db:seed
99. 712 talks 549 talks
100. 2023 had 28 conferences 2024 had 38 conferences 2025 has 20 conferences (so far)
101. How do we scale the content?
102. YouTube Playlists
103. RubyConferences.org Automated Pull Requests
104. So we can fetch events from iCal, Meetup.com, Luma
106. We need to port this over to RubyVideo.dev
107. How far are we?
109. Ways you can help contribute
111. rubyvideo.dev/contributions
112. RubyEvents.org
113. RubyVideo.dev RubyEvents.org RubyConferences.org + =
114. Future Ideas for RubyEvents.org
115. Attendees Speakers Meetup organizers Conference organizers Sponsors
116. Attendees
120. Speakers
122. Open Call For Papers Which Meetups are looking for speakers
123. Meetup Organizers
124. Find Speakers for the Meetups Keep the local community engaged Have a way to publish events and talk recordings
125. Conference Organizers
126. Ability to run a Call on Paper Manage Conferences through the platform Find potential sponsors
127. Sponsors
130. Hotwire Native App
136. We are hoping to release this in the next coming weeks.
137. It's all going to be open source.
138. Like RubyVideo.dev itself
139. Vanilla Rails as possbile
140. To have a good open-source Rails + Hotwire + Hotwire Native app available
141. Creates opportunities for early- career engineers to work on a real open-source app
142. You are welcome to check out the code
143. You are welcome to learn from the code
144. You are welcome to improve the code
145. https://github.com/adrienpoly/rubyvideo https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github.io
146. Get in touch with me! I'm happy to help you get started with contributing to open-source.
147. I would love to hear your opinions, how you would use RubyVideo, and what features you are missing.
148. Thank you 🙏 t @marcoroth_ M @marcoroth@ruby.social g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth b @marcoroth.dev