Haggis Ruby
Join us on the 24th October 2024 for a brand new, friendly Ruby conference in sunny Edinburgh!
We are sold out!
The schedule
8.30 | Registration |
9.30 | Welcome James Bell |
Stop overthinking and go create things Olly Headey | |
Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 😭Rosa Gutierrez | |
10.45 | Coffee break |
11.20 | Turn Left for Bridgetown: An overview of a next-generation static(ish) site generator Ayush Newatia |
Fractional CTO explained ⚡️Ceri Shaw | |
Ruby is more than Rails - ruby_rpg ⚡️Max Hatfull | |
12.20 | Lunch |
14.00 | Ruby + AI for building multi-agent architectureSergy Sergyenko |
Building ResilienceMelinda Seckington | |
15.05 | Coffee break |
15.40 | Ruby on (Guard) RailsMike McQuaid |
monolith.dig(:artefacts, :lessons) => An archaeological investigation of a large, ancient Rails appEmma Barnes |
Our speakers
Ayush Newatia 🏴
Core Team of the Bridgetown open source project
Ceri Shaw 🏴
Fractional CTO and tech mentor for start-ups
Emma Barnes 🏴
CEO of consonance.app, MD of snowbooks.com and makeourbook.com
Max Hatfull 🏴
Frontend Rails Engineer, Game Developer and Mathematician, working at FreeAgent
Melinda Seckington 🏴
Engineering trainer and coach at Learn Build Share. Founder of Tech Ladies Dinner Roundtable (TLDR)
Mike McQuaid 🏴
Project leader of Homebrew and CTO and Co-founder of Workbrew
Olly Headey 🏴
Co-founder of FreeAgent, 37signals alumni
Sergy Sergyenko 🇱🇹
CEO of Cybergizer, EuRuKo and Baltic Ruby co-organiser
Rosa Gutiérrez 🇪🇸
Principal programmer at 37signals
Our hotel partners
Need to book a hotel for your stay? Our venue has partnered with a few hotels.
- Apex Waterloo Place Hotel: 12% discount on the Fully Flexible Best Available Rate.
- Intercontinental Edinburgh The George: 15% discount on Best Available Rates.
- Fraser Suites Edinburgh: Classic Room £125, Studio Exec £141, 1 Bed Deluxe £160.
The venue

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is at the heart of the city! As well as enjoying your time with us, you will get the opportunity to be close to a plethora of restaurants and nice point of views.