Keynote: Investing in the Ruby community
summary
Shopify describes concrete investments: a four year effort to upgrade a 3 million lines codebase and enable frequent deploys that yields four deploys per day and 10 000 commits across the org, creation of an RBI generator so Sorbet reaches 98% of files checked and 61% of methods signed, funding research and tooling including Ruby LSP and compiler work, and a $1 million partnership to support Ruby Central all while noting TruffleRuby shows better steady‑state performance but warmup time prevents safe global production use
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Ruby community investing
- 2:37Ruby and Rails love story
- 10:32First Rails contributions
- 17:53Rails core burnout
- 20:04Shopify performance
- 23:40Sorbet static typing
- 27:16Ruby language improvements
- 30:30YJIT and optimizations
- 35:11Ruby team expansion
- 36:59Rails 7.1 features
- 39:06Ruby tooling and security
- 41:15Ruby Central support
- 43:04New Ruby developers
- 44:07New ideas and partnerships
- 45:52Call to invest in Ruby
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