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One last RBQ 2026 update:
All of our talks are now on YouTube, and we can't recommend them enough. Great speakers and great talks all around.
Nathan will also be MCing Rails World next week, so say hi if you see him!
And RBQ 2027? We're working to make it a reality.
What do you learn building your first AI feature in Rails?
In his RBQ Conf talk, Chris Gratigny shares lessons from taking an AI implementation from experimentation toward production, including prompts, tool calls, RubyLLM, and more.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=miD-9dBX…
Hit a scaling wall with Rails? The framework might not be the problem.
In his RBQ Conf talk, Cristian Planas introduces three structural villains that can limit Rails apps as they grow and explores how to defeat them.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=oSbcT1bY…
What can Ruby do with the JVM behind it?
In his RBQ Conf talk, Charles Oliver Nutter explores how JRuby can take Ruby beyond its usual boundaries, from maximizing cores to single-file apps, portable GUIs, and more.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPTBLd_…
Your tests pass. But would they actually catch a bug?
In his RBQ Conf talk, Szymon Fiedler explores mutation testing with Mutant and how intentionally introducing bugs can reveal blind spots in your test suite.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=Mavtkt79…
Ruby isn't just for web applications.
In his RBQ Conf talk, Amir Rajan takes a deep dive into the internals of DragonRuby Game Toolkit and explores what it takes to build a cross-platform game engine with Ruby.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=HuC-96fM…
Observability. SRE. SLOs. Traces. Metrics. Logs.
You've probably heard the terms—but what do they actually mean?
Ariel Valentin cuts through the buzzwords and shares a practical introduction to observability for Ruby developers.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=KErLqAUJ…
LLM features shouldn't be treated like a black box bolted onto your Rails app.
In his RBQ Conf talk, David Paluy explores practical patterns for instrumenting LLM calls so you can measure cost, latency, failures, and more in production.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4eqbyy…
“Rails magic” is really just code waiting to be understood.
In her RBQ Conf talk, Meghan Gutshall explores ActiveRecord Enums, when to use them, the features they provide, and how to trace their behavior through the Rails codebase.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1kx8pm…
As more tools abstract away our workflows, understanding Git is becoming more important, not less.
PJ Hagerty explores why Git still matters and how a better understanding of version control can strengthen your development workflow.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=1G0aVbqt…
Everything worked perfectly... until two requests arrived at the same time.
In his RBQ Conf talk, Yarik explores the concurrency problems Rails apps quietly ignore and shares practical patterns for handling concurrent access safely.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=q5faiBlE…
How does someone use their own domain as their Fediverse identity?
In his RBQ Conf talk, Tom Brown shares what he learned from two years of building a Ruby Fediverse application and explains how WebFinger Reverse Discovery makes it possible.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=0mKHdopP…
Postgres partitioning can feel confusing, risky, or reserved for massive enterprise apps.
Alex Yarotsky shows how Rails developers can approach partitioning with practical, real-world techniques you can apply with confidence.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=-dZZJ6pe…
This is what happens when you try to work from the cabin's dinner table while on family vacation. 😅
This has been fixed on youtube and rbqconf.com. thanks for your help @victor755555
Regex can feel like magic.
But what actually happens when Ruby sees something like /abc/?
In his RBQ Conf talk, Daniel follows a regular expression through Ruby's internals — from parsing to bytecode to execution.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=zkb_DKJX…
Your background job ran for hours, processed millions of records... then disappeared during a deploy.
Retries won't save you from a job that never failed.
In his RBQ Conf talk, Bart explores resilient background jobs in Ruby.
youtube.com/watch?v=wtrmSzO9…
Missed RBQ Conf? Or want to revisit a favorite talk?
Starting this week, we'll be releasing about two talks each week from the inaugural RBQ Conf.
Watch every release at rbqconf.com.
