Scaling RubyVideo.dev: The mission to index all Ruby conferences @ Tropical on Rails 2025, São Paulo, Brazil

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Scaling RubyVideo.dev: The mission to index all Ruby conferences Marco Roth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor

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What is RubyVideo.dev? Why are we doing this? What's next for the platform? How you can help!

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Marco Roth 👋 t @marcoroth_ M @[email protected] g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth Full-Stack Developer & Open Source Contributor b @marcoroth.dev

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I ❤ Open Source

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CableReady Core Team Maintainer

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rubyvideo.dev

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How did we get here?

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RailsConf 2022

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Multi-Track Conference

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When is the next Ruby conference?

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RubyConferences.org

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I checked the list and noticed RailsConf 2023 is missing

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I open a pull request

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Conferences 2023 + First Talk

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Attended 9 conferences and gave my first talk in 2023

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Conferences 2024

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Talks 2024

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Attended 12 conferences and gave 8 conference talks in 2024

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I ❤ conferences + meetups

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A desire to create build a Ruby events platform

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Even if it is just for getting an overview myself

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Kept adding new conference to RubyConferences.org as soon as they were announced

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May 2023

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Shared some ideas with Jon from RubyConferences.org

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iCal Integration Meetups A design refresh

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and became a maintainer eventually and started working on it

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June 2023

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RubyVideo.dev appeared

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https://x.com/adrienpoly/status/1669944385675378688

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"Aggregate all Ruby-related videos in one place"

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Both of the websites kept growing and improved

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The website have come a long way

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On a mission to index all Ruby conferences

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The Ruby Events Platform

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My four goals for the platform

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1. Make it easy to find anything related to Ruby events

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2. Support the Ruby community with hosting events

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3. Present it in an nice looking way

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4. Encourage more people to attend in-person events

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https://www.rubyvideo.dev/organisations/tropicalrb X

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How do we scale RubyVideo?

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How is RubyVideo built?

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We are trying to be as close as possible to the Rails 8 defaults

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An open source reference application

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Ruby 3.4

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Rails 8

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Page View Transitions API

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Solid Queue and Solid Cache

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Tailwind CSS + daisy UI

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The app is simple and fast enough, since it just has to render the talks from the database

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Since we use the default Rails stack with the preconfigured defaults we haven't really had the need to tweak performance

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What else do we need to scale?

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The heart of RubyVideo

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Content.

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app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/

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app/ bin/ config/ data/ db/ vendor/

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data ├── aloha-rubyconf/ ├── ancient-city-ruby/ ├── arrrrcamp/ [...] ├── vienna-rb/ ├── wnb-rb/ ├── wroclove-rb/

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data ├── aloha-rubyconf │ ├── playlists.yml │ │ │ └── aloha-rubyconf-2012 │ └── videos.yml │ ├── ancient-city-ruby │ ├── playlists.yml │ │ │ ├── ancient-city-ruby-2013 │ │ └── videos.yml │ │ │ ├── ancient-city-ruby-2014 │ │ └── videos.yml

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- title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" raw_title: "Keynote by Irina Nazarova" speakers: - Irina Nazarova event_name: Tropical on Rails 2025 date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: scheduled video_id: "irina-nazarova-tropical-on-rails-2025" description: "..." - title: "Scaling Rails: The Journey to 200M Notifications" raw_title: "Scaling Rails: The Journey to 200M Notifications" speakers: - Gustavo Araújo event_name: Tropical on Rails 2025 date: "2025 - 04 - 03" video_provider: scheduled video_id: "gustavo-araujo-tropical-on-rails-2025"

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rails db:seed

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How do we scale the content?

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YouTube Playlists

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RubyConferences.org Automated Pull Requests

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So we can fetch events from iCal, Meetup.com, Luma

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We need to port this over to RubyVideo.dev

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How far are we?

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Ways you can help contribute

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rubyvideo.dev/contributions

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Future Ideas

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Attendees Speakers Meetup organizers Conference organizers Sponsors

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Attendees

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Speakers

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Call For Papers Meetups looking for speakers

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Meetup Organizers

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Find Speakers Keep the local community engaged Publish events and talk recordings

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Conference Organizers

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Run Call on Papers Manage Conferences through the platform Find potential sponsors

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Exclusive Announcements

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On a mission to index all Ruby conferences

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On a mission to index all Ruby events

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Why do we need such a platform?

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Meetup.com is slowly going down

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The online Ruby community is spread apart multiple platforms

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It would be great to have at least have all Ruby events all in one place.

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712 talks 549 talks

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2023 had 28 conferences 2024 had 38 conferences 2025 has 20 conferences (so far)

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rubyconferences.org rubyvideo.dev Contributors

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RubyVideo.dev + RubyConferences.org

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RubyEvents.org

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github.com/rubyevents

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Recovering old talks

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Recovery of EuRuKo 2009 Videos

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If you have or know of old conference recordings, we would love to bring them back online and archive them

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🥳 🎉

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One more thing

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Hotwire Native App

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It's open source.

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Like RubyEvents.org itself

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Vanilla Rails as possbile

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Reference application Rails + Hotwire + Hotwire Native

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Opportunities for early-career engineers to work on a real open- source app

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You are welcome to check out the code

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You are welcome to learn from the code

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You are welcome to improve the code

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https://github.com/rubyevents/rubyevents

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I'm more than happy to help you get started with contributing.

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Get in touch!

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I would love to hear your opinions. How you are going to use RubyEvents? What features are you missing?

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Special Thanks Jon Allured Cameron Daigle Adrien Poly

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Thank you 🙏 t @marcoroth_ M @[email protected] g marcoroth.dev g @marcoroth b @marcoroth.dev l /in/marco-roth t @rubyevents_org M @[email protected] g rubyevents.org g @rubyevents b @rubyevents.org l /company/rubyevents