Keynote: Startups on Rails in 2024
summary
Recent founders report concrete wins: small teams switched from Next.js to Rails and shipped a product that earned a $6M seed after Y Combinator, another marketplace records $322M sales volume and raised $18M, and a car‑subscription company begins migrating 70 microservices to one monolith with Rails for much faster delivery. Hotwire adoption is real but docs, optimistic‑UI patterns and React integration tooling remain missing, plus demand for maintained gems, up‑to‑date provider SDKs and Ruby AI libraries.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Why startups choose Rails
- 5:52Craftwork’s Next.js to Rails
- 12:20JZ Marketplace’s Rails scale
- 19:03Flexcar’s Java to Rails
- 25:01Supporting growing Rails startups
- 27:06Top Rails improvements
- 31:50Ruby for AI integrations
- 34:38Hotwire docs and UI libraries
- 37:55Rails with React type safety
- 42:14Empowering Rails ecosystem
- 45:54Rebuilding Rails confidence
- 47:44Mature Rails ecosystem call
- 49:10Steps to contribute tomorrow
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