Rubycon ItalyThe Ruby Triathlon is back. Rubycon in Rimini (May 8), Balkan Ruby in Sofia, RubyConf AT in Vienna. Three stops, three weeks across Europe. Code TRIATHLON26 = 15% off each ticket.
Wide Group manages thousands of insurance policies across Italy on an in-house platform built in Ruby. Founded in 2016, 500+ collaborators, a business model based on partnerships and M&A with the insurance intermediary at the center. Ruby runs the business.
André Arko helped ship Bundler 1.0, wrote The Ruby Way, and started Ruby Together. At Rubycon 2026 he'll present rv: version manager, dependency manager, and script runner for Ruby. Built in Rust.
Rimini, May 8th.
Other devs have rubber ducks. Rubyconians have marble busts. Explain your bug to Matz. He Is nice, he will understand.
Silvano Stralla: building for the web since 2000, developer at DatoCMS, Ruby as his language of choice. At Rubycon he'll talk about what happens when you break the rules of software engineering.
Rimini, May 8th.
Fastlane: 41k GitHub stars, 700+ contributors, acquired by Twitter then Google. Automates app deploys to the App Store and Google Play. Written entirely in Ruby. Every mobile dev knows it. Most Rubyists don't. The biggest Ruby project nobody in Ruby talks about.
Code by day, Toga Party by night.
At Rubycon, we’re celebrating in pure Ruby style: clean, and elegant.
What you’ll need: 1 bedsheet, 3 safety pins, 1 rope. Here’s the guide to “compiling” your toga in seconds.
Rimini, May 8th.
We've set up a Scholarship Program for Rubycon 2026. If a full-price ticket isn't realistic for you, apply for one at €20. Open to students, early-career devs, people between jobs, underrepresented groups in tech.
Applications close April 19th.
Julia López: almost 15 years with Rails, the last 10 maintaining a senior monolith. Her talks are practical, you leave with stuff you can use the next day.
Speaking at Rubycon 2026.
Rimini, May 8th.
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