Why engineers should come to the SF Ruby Startup Conference in 2026

Evil Martians on why the SF Ruby Startup Conference is aimed at engineers rather than executives: the people maintaining Ruby open source and running Rails at scale.

Authors: Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians. I build developer tools and study the market that funds them., and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Developer Community, Rails, AI, Ruby, LLMs The SF Ruby Startup Conference is an engineers' conference: meet the people building Ruby open source, scaling Rails in production, and shaping what agentic Rails looks like next. It's the "SF Ruby Startup Conference", but let's make something clear up front: this is a conference for engineers . The prog...