Back in 2007, Higher Pixels was a Rails-powered product company with two core offerings: Tick for time tracking, and M Sites for helping small nonprofits create websites. Around this time, many of M Site’s customers were local churches across the U.S. When church leaders started asking| Ruby Central
When Joe Masilotti attended RailsConf 2025 in July, he noticed something small but interesting: the QR codes on everyone’s badges. Scanning one pulled up a contact card with the person's phone number and email address. While useful, this felt a little too personal for someone you| Ruby Central
Hello, and welcome to the August newsletter. Read on for announcements about our Open Source Program and a report of the OSS work we’ve done over the past month! As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we will now be sending out separate updates for the Open Source Program and| Ruby Central
This was my first time at RailsConf and my first time attending a Ruby Central-powered conference as Executive Director. Going in, I had heard there was something magical about the Ruby community, but I didn’t yet understand what that meant. Throughout the conference, in small micro-conversations, I started| Ruby Central
TL;DR: Today, we’re launching a sustainable and community-driven funding model for RubyGems.org infrastructure, maintenance, and security. If you build with Ruby, join us in keeping RubyGems.org, RubyGems, and Bundler secure and sustainable for years to come. Contribute here or share this with your company leadership. At| Ruby Central
Hello, and welcome to the July newsletter. Read on for announcements about our Open Source Program and a report of the OSS work we’ve done over the past month! As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we will now be sending out separate updates for the Open Source Program and| Ruby Central
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Ruby Central is well-positioned to support open source projects with the administrative side of fundraising through fiscal sponsorship. And today, we’re excited to share our first partnership: Hanami!| Ruby Central
What happens when your Rails app is stuck on an outdated version? You may know it needs to be upgraded, but the work feels overwhelming, risky, and no one on your team really wants to take it on. That’s where FastRuby comes in. For the past eight years, FastRuby| Ruby Central
Hello, and welcome to the June newsletter. Read on for announcements about our Open Source Program and a report of the OSS work we’ve done over the past month! As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we will now be sending out separate updates for the Open Source Program and| Ruby Central
For Ruby developers who have ever been told that Rails won’t scale, Persona is a perfect counterexample. Their identity verification product helps global companies verify users across 200+ countries, processing passports, government IDs, and digital credentials with millisecond precision. And Rails is at the center of it all.| Ruby Central
Hello, and welcome to the May newsletter. Read on for announcements about our Open Source Program and a report of the OSS work we’ve done over the past month. As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we will now be sending out separate updates for the Open Source Program| Ruby Central
Last year, Flexcar migrated its entire platform from a complex Java-based microservice architecture to a Ruby on Rails monolith. That shift happened almost in real time at RailsConf 2024, after Irina Nazarova announced it during her keynote. One year later, Flexcar’s Director of Engineering, John Dewsnap, is joining us| Ruby Central
Welcome to The Ruby Central README 🎉 Instead of combining updates on our Open Source Program, conferences, and organizational news into one, The README is a newsletter focused on Ruby Central as an organization, our events, and the broader community. For Open Source Program news, check out our dedicated newsletter,| Ruby Central
Ruby Central is excited to welcome our new Executive Director, Shan Cureton. Over the past few years, Ruby Central has gone through a period of meaningful growth and change. We launched our Open Source Program to lead the ongoing development of RubyGems and Bundler, redefined RubyConf as our flagship| Ruby Central
Before they were writing code, Aji Slater was working as a vaudevillian, touring with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. As a “career changer,” their path into tech wasn’t traditional. But like many in the Ruby on Rails community, it has been driven by| Ruby Central
RubyGems and Bundler are the package management systems for Ruby applications used by developers worldwide. They’re also the backbone of a thriving world of Ruby software. For nearly two decades, these tools have simplified how developers develop, share, and install gem libraries, extending the simple Ruby programming language into| Ruby Central
A special announcement for the Ruby community We normally announce next year’s RailsConf location at the end of the conference, but this time we are going to do something a little different and share two pieces of news: We are delighted to announce that we want to involve you| Ruby Central
Ruby Central is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a two part grant from Alpha-Omega. The $250,000 grant will support critical open source projects on RubyGems.org, RubyGems and Bundler. Alpha-Omega is an OpenSSF associated project of the OpenSSF, established in February 2022, funded by Microsoft, Google,| Ruby Central
To all of our attendees, speakers, volunteers, sponsors, vendors and the staff at the Town and Country Resort, thanks for helping us make RubyConf 2023, a huge success! Over 500 Rubyists joined us in San Diego from Monday November 13th through Wednesday November 15th for the 23rd annual RubyConf, and| Ruby Central
Thinking of applying to this year's RailsConf Scholars and Guides program? Read on to hear from last year's Scholars about what it was like and why you should take the leap and apply! Name: Michelle Yuen Professional Title: Backend Developer for Adler Planetarium How did you get into Ruby? I| Ruby Central
Ruby Central is very excited today to announce that Samuel Giddins has joined as the organization’s first open source employee as a Security Engineer in Residence. This residency is made possible thanks to support from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Software supply chain security has become increasingly important for companies| Ruby Central