RubyWorld Conference 2026
Overview
A business-oriented Ruby conference held in Matsue, the birthplace of Ruby. Anchored by a keynote from Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), it showcases business use cases of Ruby and the latest developments in the ecosystem. A major Ruby event alongside RubyKaigi.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2009
- Founder
- RubyWorld Conference Committee (Shimane Prefecture, Matsue City, and others)
Founded in Matsue, Shimane, the birthplace of Ruby, to promote business adoption of Ruby
Voices
Learned LLM app basics and how to build an MCP server in Rails (from kaiba's report, in Japanese)
Saw how Ruby's developer-friendliness feeds quality, and where it fits best alongside other languages (from Sakimori's report, in Japanese)
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