2025 was a special year with #ChicagoRuby, hybrid meetups, and Ruby events across the US — Sin City Ruby, RailsConf, XO Ruby, Rocky Mountain Ruby, SF Ruby Conf.

Planning 2026 is easy thanks to RubyEvents 👉 https://rubyevents.org

2025 was a big year for #ChicagoRuby
We hosted 19 talks from some of the brightest minds in our Ruby community — covering DDD, modular monoliths, GenAI, Hotwire, developer happiness, resilience & more. The full lineup in comments👇

⚡️ Tonight: Final #chicagoRuby meetup of 2025

Planned talk is paused, but the meetup and Hack Night are very much on:
- more time to connect
- pairing, building, and experimenting with fellow Rubyists & DPI students

📍 6:00–8:30 PM
🔗 Intro stream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85792725779?pwd=5ksoFcvAjS9W5xzDbQNcHVYtZtsalz.1

See you!

The final #ChicagoRuby meetup of the year is here ⚡️
Dec 3 — and the first @chicagoruby Night in years!

Talk by @jeffcohen “Learning How to Learn,” then an open hack session.
Bring a project or join one!
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/events/311860021/

Today's November #chicagoRuby at Cisco has passed 70 RSVPs, making it the most wanted meetup since 2019 🥳

I continue to receive inquiries about late registrations and walk-ins. Unfortunately, due to the security requirements of the building, we won't be able to process them. That said, you still have a great alternative to join us online via Webex (from Cisco): https://cisco.webex.com/cisco/j.php?MTID=mcd0128dc5d3e50260007505c883b98c3.

Join us in celebrating this significant milestone for the Ruby community in Chicago 🎉

October’s #ChicagoRuby meetup — Talk #1:
@pushcx , creator of Recheck, showed why checking your data regularly matters more than trying to keep it perfect.

“Shipping a query you already wrote, and running it forever, is the best trade-off.”

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UOJYxOcBA&t=501s

October’s #ChicagoRuby meetup - Talk #2:
"From schema-based multi-tenancy to a single schema with UUIDs" by Prarthana Shiva @ NexHealth

“Startups outgrow early choices. It’s okay — design the exit ramp, then take it one table at a time.”

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UOJYxOcBA&t=4107s

"Perfect is too Expensive"-Peter | "Schemas to UUID rows"-Prarthana | @ Prism Spaces | October 2025

YouTube
🚨 Growth brings surprises. At our hybrid #ChicagoRuby meetup, a Zoom guest hijacked the screen share with explicit content, cutting off the talk mid-sentence. It took me 30s to stop — felt endless. Huge respect to @aji, who recovered instantly and delivered a great talk.

📢 #ChicagoRuby #meetup tonight at 6 PM Prism Spaces (Wicker Park)!
Two database-focused talks:
1️⃣ Perfect Database is Too Expensive ( @pushcx )
2️⃣ Schema-based Multi-tenancy → Single Schema ( Prarthana Shiva )

Join in person or on Zoom 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86818605406?pwd=y3w97qeg6bun3K8OKsG5rMWW3ph8OR.1

#ChicagoRuby returns Oct 1 at Prism Spaces
Talks by @pushcx & Prathana Shiva

For in-person attendance 👉 https://www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/events/310937426/
For online attendance 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81844653458?pwd=d2cvPJwJ3cgD93bgOUVF5UIfcW16lN.1