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Our 2026 schedule is live! There are a few locations TBD, but this should help with your planning. Be sure not to miss stuff happening on Wednesday night and Saturday! https://blueridgeruby.com/schedule/

Blue Ridge Ruby 4d ago

You might have seen this one coming… ☺️ Today we're pleased to announce our latest sponsor for 2026! Avo is *the* Rails Framework for internal tools. https://avohq.io/

Thank you for partnering with us! 🙏

Blue Ridge Ruby Mar 10

We have 3 remaining scholarship tickets to Blue Ridge Ruby that we'd love to get into the hands of students, folks in career transition, or those recently impacted by job loss. If you know someone who would benefit, please share this with them! Here's our short application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHb0FXhvMtHr7qXcMt4fEbiqxwnk0-8hrFPf_miqzrNmBUsg/viewform

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Blue Ridge Ruby Mar 4

If you are an open source or community project maintainer, or are up for pairing with others, or offering office hours, please sign up and our Hack Day host will be in touch!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffmFRZ0M9SoxEEjLBwnKjLy_jvA8zg5JenYZ1SeOGNPglF3w/viewform

Hack Day Project Signup

Blue Ridge Ruby is organizing a Hack Day on Saturday, May 2 at the conference venue. We are looking for attendees who would like to host others who can work with them on various projects. If you are an open source maintainer, run a community project, or just want to offer time to pair program with others, please fill out the details below.

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Blue Ridge Ruby Mar 4

We’re going to be hosting our first-ever Hack Day, on Saturday after the conference! It will be held at the conference venue. (This will be one of several optional Saturday activities for attendees sticking around.)
https://blueridgeruby.com/activities/

Blue Ridge Ruby Mar 3

We're happy to announce our newest sponsor for 2026! @FastRuby (a service of @OmbuLabs) offers Ruby/Rails upgrade services, performance and security audits, and fixed-cost monthly maintenance.

Thank you so much for your support! ☺️

Blue Ridge Ruby Feb 27

We've been planning something new… On Thursday evening after Day 1 of the conference, we're going to be hosting an optional roundtable discussion, to talk about the changes happening in our industry, and how we as Rubyists are working through it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP3eLocLFO0

Announcement: Roundtable Discussion Thursday Night

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Blue Ridge Ruby Feb 19

Here's the scholarship application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHb0FXhvMtHr7qXcMt4fEbiqxwnk0-8hrFPf_miqzrNmBUsg/viewform

Scholarship Application

Blue Ridge Ruby is a regional Ruby conference coming to Asheville, North Carolina on April 30 & May 1, 2026. We are offering 10 free scholarship tickets on a first-come, first-served basis. These scholarships are aimed at helping those who might not otherwise be able to attend. We are especially interested in helping students, people transitioning careers into software development, and people recently impacted by job loss or contract reduction.

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Blue Ridge Ruby Feb 19

Today we're pleased to announce we're opening up 10 scholarship tickets to Blue Ridge. We're especially interested in helping students, folks in career transition, and those recently impacted by job loss. Fill out our short application form and our team will be in touch with you!

Blue Ridge Ruby Feb 17

We’re pleased to announce our first Ruby-tier sponsor of 2026! Typesense is a lightning-fast open source search engine. https://typesense.org/

Thank you for partnering with us! 🙏