Helvetic Ruby 2026 is a single-track conference for Ruby programming language enthusiasts and professionals from Switzerland and abroad. After previous editions in Bern, Zürich, and Geneva, the conference returns to Zürich in 2026. Attendees can expect a varied programme of talks, ample networking breaks, and community events surrounding the main conference…
Programmed at Helvetic, in alphabetical order.
The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Selected from 7 sessions.
Building multi-user reservations for appointments, tickets or other limited resources is such a classic problem that it comes up in system design books as “Build a ticket reservati…
Fin has been running on Rails since 2011. Starting from Rails 3.0, today our 3 million line monolith is running on the main branch of Rails. This talk covers our Rails upgrade jour…
In this talk we’ll discuss a bunch of things in Ruby and Rails that work in practice and we may be used to them, but that if you consider them carefully there’s something off about…
Every system we build reflects something back at us. Our strengths, our blind spots, the things we never thought to question. We’ll look at what the mirror actually shows, how it t…
What really happens when Ruby sees a regular expression like /abc/? While many of us use regular expressions regularly, we don’t necessarily think much about how they really work. …
Ever heard of the one-lock-to-rule-them-all preventing parallel execution of Threads for both Ruby code and native extensions? Let’s remove that! In this talk we show how we are r…
Sysadmin: _We need to reduce the size of our database_. Me: _Ok, we’ve done that before. I’ll just delete a few million records from the database as we did last year_. Spoiler: I…
An audience of 11 companies, parsed from the program.
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