Friendly.rb 2025 - September 10-11 2025 This year, the plushy seats hosted, again, over 130 happy Rubyists and the stage featured fantastic talks, a game show, a debate, and a share-your-side-proje...

Something special happened last September.
Our plushy seats hosted over 130 bright folks who came to see the happening which we call Friendly.rb.

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Friendly PSA for everyone travelling to @sfrubyconf.com: Bring your Ruby Passports with you 🙌

Friends, tickets for the San Francisco Ruby conference are on sale and available. Grab yours, and I’ll see you with 600 Ruby friends and dozens of Ruby startups to pave the bright future for Ruby and Rails together on November 19-21!
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We’re proudly sponsored by Chime Financial, @bolt.new @cisco.com, Gusto, @temporal.io , @avohq.io , @scoutmonitoring.bsky.social ,Typesense , Cedarcode, @planetargon.com, onCactus.com and Tidewave.ai

An elderly Australian Shepherd, lying next to a frame containing the words "I am Friendly," and the Friendly.rb logo. They're outside, with trees in the background, on weedy grass.

Kai, 14, nickname "The Friend," would have been right at home at @friendlyrb.com

New Experiences at Friendly.rb A conference can be so much more than just its talks. These were my experiences at Friendly.rb, as a once-skeptic.

Brilliant recap of @friendlyrb.com, especially if you (like the writer) have been a skeptic of the value of travelling to conferences:

schembri.me/new-experien...

That’s the second stop of the #rubytriathlon over. @friendlyrb.com was amazing, such a welcoming and inclusive conference that lives up to its name. Looking forward to @euruko.org this week!

Fun fact about @friendlyrb.com - no matter how low social skills you have, you end up hugging with dozens of people and saying "see you next year" 🤗

Magnificent work @adrianthedev.com @lucianghinda.com @jakob.codefrwd.com @stefancosma.xyz @alexmarinescu.com 👏

Shout out to @friendlyrb.com on setting the benchmark on organizing a local, cozy, friendly Ruby conference. What a great team!

do you like learning about how to accidentally delete your production database? I just gave a talk at
@friendlyrb.com about how SQLite creates new ways to cause outages, and you can read the blog post version here andre.arko.net/2025/09/11/r...

Having the best time in Bucharest 🇷🇴 after @friendlyrb.com

This was a banger of a talk, coming from one of the nicest people I've met at @friendlyrb.com.

Me speaking on stage

The slide saying “fundamentals echo”

I had an absolutely wonderful time speaking about versatility at @friendlyrb.com yesterday 💜 thank you so much for having me!

A man with a flashy jacket holding a microphone on from of three people who are deliberating about an answer on a quiz type show

Three people wearing festive hats in blue, yellow and red (the colours of the Romanian flag) each one in front of a tall table with a big button for a contest, looking at a projector screen with categories, while the show host dressed in a flashy suit addresses the audience

Two big bags of bags of pufuleti, an airy corn Romanian snack

A woman standing on the street next to a big bag of bags of pufuleti, an airy corn Romanian snack

Somehow I ended up winning @jakob.codefrwd.com ‘s Friendly show at @friendlyrb.com yesterday 🤣 I got a zillion of bags of pufuleti (an airy corn snack v similar to Spanish gusanitos) as the prize 🤣 I managed to give all of them away! To conf participants and random people at the after party bar 🍻

I’ve completely lost my voice after the two days of @friendlyrb.com 🤣 This is the 2nd time in my life this happens. The first time was a year ago right after @friendlyrb.com 🤣 This time at least Rails World came first so I could give my talk with voice! Is this enough proof of how epic Friendly is?🥹

Had a wonderful time at @friendlyrb.com. Met so many nice and interesting people, my mind and heart are full.

Thanks to @lucianghinda.com, @adrianthedev.com, @jakob.codefrwd.com, @stefancosma.xyz, @alexmarinescu.com, and everyone else for making this happen! ❤️

Coffee in Romania has been so consistently delicious so far, it’s excellent everywhere! What’s your secret, people??

Aaaand it’s a wrap! Thanks to everyone who made @friendlyrb.com possible and to all the equally friendly folks who attended the conference. It’s been a blast. Already looking forward to meeting you again at future Ruby-centered gatherings! 👏🏻 #friendlyrb

The #friendlyrb Mountain Trip is going well

“It’s not about you having a brilliant idea but about solving a problem”
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The Rails SaaS panel is starting at #friendlyrb 💪

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Friendly.rb attendees lined up against the wall

The @friendlyrb.com beauty pageant about to begin!

Not sure if communist queue or just a @friendlyrb.com passion line 😉

“Who here likes to make mistakes?” @hola_soy_milk at #friendlyrb

Loved, loved @hola-soy-milk.online ‘s talk on versatility at @friendlyrb.com ! What a legend! One of the best public speakers and communicators in the community, that’s for sure 🤩💖 also, she has the cutest laptop #goals

“Who here likes to make mistakes?” @hola_soy_milk at #friendlyrb

Good first day. Learned a lot and met great #devs

@friendlyrb.com

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@adrianthedev.com @lucianghinda.com and the whole @avohq.io team have been incredible hosts. From cool talks, to city tours, to a coffee brewing workshop. @friendlyrb.com has it all ❤️

.@lucianghinda is showing us how to brew V60 aeropress coffee live on stage at #friendlyrb 😳