Past Events

Explore our archive of previous Toronto Ruby meetups. Each event brought our community together to learn, share, and grow.

15
Total Events
6
Events This Year
3
Years Active
2025

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
Orchestrating Payment Workflows Without Losing Your Mind with Temporal.io by Yan Matagne @ Loop

remainder of time until 8:30pm - Networking and drinks  

Event Sponsor

Loop Financial

May 2025 - Spring is Here

May 27, 2025 @ 05:30PM
Past Event

Location

Phoenix
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 

Event Sponsor

Phoenix

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.

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 

Event Sponsor

Clio

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.

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

remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks 

Event Sponsor

Shopify

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. 

Agenda

6pm - Arrival

7pm - When Things Break, We Build: The Story of Gemdocs ​by Adam Daniels, Principal Consultant

Remainder of time - Networking

Event Sponsor

Switch Growth

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.

Agenda

6pm - Arrive, chat, and get pizza 

7pm - Little Leaks Sink Your Tests by Erin Paget, Software Development Manager at Clio

remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks 

Event Sponsor

Clio
2024

Toronto Ruby's One Year Anniversary

Nov 25, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event

Location

CRAFT Beer Market
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/

Event Sponsor

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.

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

remainder of time until 9pm - Networking and drinks 

Event Sponsor

Shopify

Summer of Rails World Edition

Aug 13, 2024 @ 06:00PM
Past Event

Location

Humi 
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

Humi

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.

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

Switch Growth

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.

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

Switch Growth

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.

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 

Event Sponsor

Financeit

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.

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

Switch Growth

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. 

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

Loop Financial
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. 

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

Switch Growth

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