I agree with you, but it’s an indisputable fact that Rails is why the overwhelming majority of Ruby programmers have paying jobs.
> Interestingly, Sydney does not seem to have an event listed on this site when I checked.
To be fair, Boulder Ruby is pretty active, and we aren't on that list. Just moved to Luma from meetup but have had meetings 10 months a year since 2016.
Note this is hosted on gh so you can open a pr to add yours: https://github.com/ruby-conferences/ruby-conferences.github....
I’m on mobile at the moment otherwise I’d do it myself
Re:Ruby Meetups
by ilrwbwrkhv on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:35AM
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Why moved to luma
Meetup cost too much. We have some great sponsors (github, dnsimple, mojotech) but not a ton of cash.
We decided we'd rather provide pizza for more meetups than pay for meetup.
Re:Ruby Meetups
by ilrwbwrkhv on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:17PM
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Thank you
Re:Ruby Meetups
by billdueber on Sunday September 29, 2024 @10:21PM
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I keep telling people to think of Rails as a “ruby-like” language. Rails monkey-patches so much and has so much magic that it’s substantially a different thing.
As an aside, I dislike the strong association between Rails and Ruby. Ruby can be a fun scripting language. In my experience I'm generally about as productive writing Ruby as I am with writing Python, but Ruby seems to get bucketed into a very Rails centric world of "not the worst choice you could make if you wanted to make a web service" (at least when it comes to meetups).
Maybe it's just that the web service guys are more likely to need a support group! :)