Past Events
Explore our archive of previous Toronto Ruby meetups. Each event brought our community together to learn, share, and grow.
16
Total Events
7
Events This Year
3
Years Active
2025
July 2025 Edition
Jul 24, 2025 @ 05:30PM
Past Event
Location
51 Wolseley Street
Lower Level
Toronto, ON
M5T 1A5
Lower Level
Toronto, ON
M5T 1A5
Agenda
5:30pm - Arrive, chat, and get food
6:30pm
6:30pm
- Meet Shah – Implementing a Rule-Based Taxonomy at Fullscript
- Kristine McBride – Accelerating our Admin Rebuild with Rails Generators
- Mike Presman – Docker Not Required: Instant Rails Onboarding with Nix
remainder of time until 8:30pm - Networking and drinks
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June 2025 - The Start of Summer Edition
Jun 17, 2025 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
410 Adelaide St W
Toronto, ON M5V 1S7, Canada
Suite 500
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Presentations
Flying 7500kms for a ruby conference (A Ruby Kaigi reflection) by Varun Sindwani @ Fullscript
7pm - Presentations
Flying 7500kms for a ruby conference (A Ruby Kaigi reflection) by Varun Sindwani @ Fullscript
Orchestrating Payment Workflows Without Losing Your Mind with Temporal.io by Yan Matagne @ Loop
remainder of time until 8:30pm - Networking and drinks
remainder of time until 8:30pm - Networking and drinks
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May 2025 - Spring is Here
May 27, 2025 @ 05:30PM
Past Event
Location
Phoenix
200 Wellington St. West
Suite 1400
Toronto, ON. M5V 3C7
200 Wellington St. West
Suite 1400
Toronto, ON. M5V 3C7
Agenda
5:30pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
6pm - Presentations
- Exploring the Ruby AI Ecosystem by Andy Waite
- Cognitive complexity in cooking, code & chores by James Edward-Jones @ MindfulChef
- Access Granted (Sort Of): The Art of Output Masking & Permissions by James Roscoe @ ShoreCG
remainder of time until 8:30pm - Networking and drinks
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April 2025 - No Foolin' Edition
Apr 29, 2025 @ 05:30PM
Past Event
Location
Clio
16 York Street
30th Floor
Toronto, ON M5J 0E6
Take elevators up to 30th floor and check in.
16 York Street
30th Floor
Toronto, ON M5J 0E6
Take elevators up to 30th floor and check in.
Agenda
5:30pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
6pm - Presentations
- Improving websocket performance at Clio by Dan Bird
- How the Clio mobile team uses Ruby and learning + applying Ruby for non-Rubyists by Ahmed El Bialy
- Topic TBD by Erin Paget Dees
remainder of time until 8pm - Networking and drinks
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March 2025
Mar 20, 2025 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Shopify
10th Floor
620 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Check in with security in the lobby to be let up. Elevators will be available for the duration of the event.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
10th Floor
620 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Check in with security in the lobby to be let up. Elevators will be available for the duration of the event.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Presentations
Worldwide and the complexities of the address form by Dominique Flabbi, Developer @ Shopify
Lessons from 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub by Joel Hawksley, Staff Engineer @ GitHub
Worldwide and the complexities of the address form by Dominique Flabbi, Developer @ Shopify
Lessons from 5 years of UI architecture at GitHub by Joel Hawksley, Staff Engineer @ GitHub
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
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February 2025
Feb 27, 2025 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Workplace One
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Agenda
6pm - Arrival
7pm - When Things Break, We Build: The Story of Gemdocs by Adam Daniels, Principal Consultant
Remainder of time - Networking
7pm - When Things Break, We Build: The Story of Gemdocs by Adam Daniels, Principal Consultant
Remainder of time - Networking
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January 2025 - Welcome to 2025 Edition
Jan 28, 2025 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Clio
16 York Street
30th Floor
Toronto, ON M5J 0E6
Take elevators up to 30th floor and check in.
16 York Street
30th Floor
Toronto, ON M5J 0E6
Take elevators up to 30th floor and check in.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
2024
Toronto Ruby's One Year Anniversary
Nov 25, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
CRAFT Beer Market
1 Adelaide Street E
Toronto, ON
1 Adelaide Street E
Toronto, ON
Agenda
Toronto Ruby is 1 Year Old!
Join us for a casual get together and celebrate one year of Toronto Ruby! There's more to come, but we wanted to take a bit of a break and celebrate before the holidays!
Pre-orders for food encouraged, we got the space for a small minimum spend and if you're able to support us by helping us reach it, we'd appreciate it! You can view the menu here: https://www.craftbeermarket.ca/menu/
October 2024 Edition
Oct 24, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Shopify
10th Floor
620 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Check in with security in the lobby to be let up. Elevators will be available for the duration of the event.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
10th Floor
620 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Check in with security in the lobby to be let up. Elevators will be available for the duration of the event.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Unlocking the Potential of Lockable by Angela Choi, Technical Implementation Manager at Financeit
7:30pm - POROs to make Rails Soar-os by Andrew Szczepanski, Head of Engineering at Centah
7:30pm - POROs to make Rails Soar-os by Andrew Szczepanski, Head of Engineering at Centah
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
Summer of Rails World Edition
Aug 13, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Humi
207 Queens Quay W
#400
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 1A7
207 Queens Quay W
#400
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 1A7
Unlock the full potential of R&D tax credits with Humi and get up to 64% of your R&D spend from the Canadian government back.
We will have an in-person Rails World ticket raffle for 2 tickets. There will be two draws, one for each ticket. Only folks in-person will be eligible to be drawn!
Getting to Humi's offices
1️⃣ Enter the building and head through to the back (skip the first set of elevators) - we're at the closest side to the water!
2️⃣ Take the glass elevators up to the 4th floor
3️⃣ Our suite (unit 400) is to the left when exiting elevators!
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Ruby + IPv6 for fun and profit by Claus Michael Oest Lensbøl, Senior Software Engineer at Humi
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
June Edition
Jun 20, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Workplace One
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Creating A Dev Container Ecosystem For Rails 8 by Andrew Novoselac, Senior Software Developer at Shopify
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
May Edition
May 22, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Workplace One
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Concurrency in Ruby by Raj Kumar, Director of Software Engineering at Stealth
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
April Edition
Apr 03, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
FinanceIt @ The Well
8 Spadina Ave
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5V 2H6
Please note that public access to the building is restricted at 7pm! Please arrive before then.
When you arrive at The Well, please take the high rise elevators (19-38) to the 214th floor to get to reception.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
8 Spadina Ave
Suite 2400
Toronto, ON M5V 2H6
Please note that public access to the building is restricted at 7pm! Please arrive before then.
When you arrive at The Well, please take the high rise elevators (19-38) to the 214th floor to get to reception.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Using Rails introspection to supercharge your editor by Andy Waite, Senior Developer at Shopify
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
February Edition
Feb 29, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Workplace One
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - All About the Ruby LSP by Vinicius Stock, Staff Developer at Shopify
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
January Edition
Jan 24, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Loop Financial
500-410 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 1S8
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
500-410 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 1S8
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Rails and the Ruby Garbage Collector: How to Speed Up Your Rails App by Peter Zhu, Senior Developer at Shopify
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
2023
Inaugural Edition
Nov 23, 2023 @ 06:00PM
Past Event
Location
Workplace One
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
51 Wolseley St, Toronto ON
Lower level, enter through doors on Wolseley St.
Food and drinks provided by our sponsor.
Agenda
6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza
7pm - Integer#even? Going stupidly deep on pointless performance questions, but hopefully learning something fun along the way by Matt Eagar
remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks
Event Sponsor
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