Is Ruby really where it's at right now?
How to Start a Ruby Meetup
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Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#12Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails.
for it to find it's footing again and grow.
wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will be the death of ruby.
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#13Is Ruby really where it's at right now?
It pairs quite nicely with agentic development as it has a history of plenty of open-source projects published on GitHub, which means they have learned to work with Rails et al. rather well.
It also helps to have a "boring" framework with strong opinions and strong community standards etc.
I wouldn't claim it to be the best as I'm not sure how you'd measure that, but I can say that in my experience it is letting me build things to a decent standard really rather quickly.
If you're building something new today, I'd generally recommend starting with a framework that you already know. But for those of us who already know Rails, it continues to be a wonderful choice. I'm playing with Phoenix LiveView for some projects, which is letting me build real-time UI's really easily – but they have some real-time requirements which Rails can do but is not it's strength. For anything a little more CRUD, it's a no-brainer.
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#14Is Ruby really where it's at right now?
What do you mean? It’s been around for a while and people still use it yes
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#15Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails. for it to find it's footing again and grow. wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will be the death of ruby.
Show me on the doll where DHH hurt you
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#16How to make a network on meetups and turn into opportunity I mean asking for referral in their companies. first of all how to open without hesitation..
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#17Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails. for it to find it's footing again and grow. wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will be the death of ruby.
Show me on the doll where DHH hurt you
Seriously, there is more to computing than the Web. I've used Ruby for more than 25 years and never used Rails. I'm a computational biologist and like to use Bioruby to automate various sequence-based tasks. Not as popular as BioPython (or I suppose Bioperl if anyone is still using that), but a similar niche.
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#18Is Ruby really where it's at right now?
For languages, I'd say Gleam and OxCaml are going to become more and more popular on here. Not sure what else.
In the industry, Ruby often (but not always) pairs with Rails. Ruby+Rails exists in a sweet spot of making most of the mundane bullshit of writing software vanish, you spend 80% of your time thinking about your business problem, and that was before LLMs. With LLMs, you can get a lot done.
It wouldn't surprise me if AI economics act as a forcing function for more Ruby adoption.
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#19I've been helping to run a meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand: https://christchurch.ruby.nz/ for about 10 years (maybe longer, I've lost track!). I _completed_ agree with the article that the best thing you can do to avoid burnout is to organise it with someone else (or better still, two or more others like we do). The other thing which really worked for us: We were getting fed up trying to badger people to help giv…
That's crazy. A dev meetup in Northampton UK has backlog for 10 months of talks. Although it is generalist.
Re: How to Start a Ruby Meetup
#20I've been helping to run a meetup in Christchurch, New Zealand: https://christchurch.ruby.nz/ for about 10 years (maybe longer, I've lost track!). I _completed_ agree with the article that the best thing you can do to avoid burnout is to organise it with someone else (or better still, two or more others like we do). The other thing which really worked for us: We were getting fed up trying to badger people to help giv…
That's crazy. A dev meetup in Northampton UK has backlog for 10 months of talks. Although it is generalist.
I run the Python meetup in Thessaloniki, Greece, and it's exhausting trying to find speakers.I frequently skip months because nobody wants to present anything, and we aim to have two presentations on each meetup. I'm almost always the second presenter, and sometimes I'll do both presentations myself (or just skip that month's event).
It is exhausting, and people do always ask when the next one is, but my reply of "whenever you want to speak" doesn't seem to do much to get more speakers.