This post was updated on April 8 with new event sponsorships.
At AppSignal, we've always been heavily invested in the developer community, especially the Ruby scene, since most of the team comes from a Ruby or Rails background.
It was great meeting so many of you at Rails World 2023. While we can't personally attend every conference, we're happy to announce we're sponsoring seventeen Ruby events (and sending stroopwafels to one event on top of that) this year! That's eighteen chances to get your hands on some AppSignal swag and stroopwafels.
Read on to see which AppSignal-sponsored Ruby events are happening in your region (and our Rails World 2023 Sjoelen competition results).
Sponsored Ruby Events
We're sponsoring the following fifteen Ruby meetups and conferences globally (and sending stroopwafels to Las Vegas for Sin City Ruby on March 21):
| Event | Date | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical.rb | April 4-5 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Wroclove.rb | April 12-14 | Wroclaw, Poland |
| Balkan Ruby | April 26-27 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| RailsConf | May 7-9 | Detroit, US |
| Helvetic Ruby | May 17 | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Blue Ridge Ruby | May 30-31 | Asheville, US |
| RubyDay | May 31 | Verona, Italy |
| Ruby Unconf | June 8-9 | Hamburg, Germany |
| Baltic Ruby | June 13-15 | Malmö, Sweden |
| Brighton Ruby | June 28 | Brighton, UK |
| Red Dot Ruby Conference | July 25-26 | Singapore |
| RubyConf Africa | July 26-27 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Madison+ Ruby | August 1-2 | Madison, US |
| Rails Camp West | August 27-30 | Cascade, US |
| EuRuKo | September 11-13 | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| Friendly.rb | September 18-19 | Bucharest, Romania |
| Rails World | September 26-27 | Toronto, Canada |
We also sponsored the Ruby Warsaw Community Conference on February 2.
Rails World 2023 Sjoelen Winners
Last year, we were the proud sponsor of the first-ever Rails World. As well as sharing our awesome swag and freshly baked stroopwafels with attendees, we hosted the first Rails World Sjoelen Championship.
We offered the winners a year's supply of stroopwafels or a €200 donation to an open-source project of their choice.
As a result, thanks to the generosity of our winners, we're proud to announce we've donated a total of €600 to the following causes:
- Neovim - A Vim-based text editor.
- Lucian Ghinda - For his work on the Short Ruby Newsletter.
- Bridgetown - A Ruby-based progressive site generator and full-stack framework.
- Chatwoot - An open-source, self-hosted customer engagement suite.
Speaking of Sjoelen...
They may not have topped our leaderboard, but our Rails World conference neighbors and customer, ViaEurope, took Sjoelen more seriously than the Dutch national team.
Their dedication to the game impressed us so much we decided to send them their very own Sjoelen board:
AppSignal, The Rubyist's APM
Ruby developers don't just love AppSignal because we provide them with stroopwafels to snack on at conferences. They also love us because of our:
- Intuitive interface that is easy to navigate.
- Simple and predictable pricing.
- Friendly developer-to-developer support.
New to AppSignal? With our installation wizard, we can have you up and monitoring within minutes. We'll even send you free delicious stroopwafels once you start sending us your app's metrics.
Simply start a free trial and join the thousands of Rubyists relying on AppSignal to monitor and enhance their code today!
