Irina Nazarova will deliver a keynote at Blastoff Rails, a conference for people who love building with Ruby on Rails, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A part of the “Startups on Rails” series, this talk shares fresh findings from interviews with some of the most ambitious new founders—including recent YC grads—who deliberately chose Ruby and Rails to move faster than their peers.
Through these conversations, it examines why they bet on Rails (fast iteration, boring reliability, or something else entirely) and what still feels missing, from modern frontend and reactive UI paths to clear AI integration patterns and better performance/dev tooling.
Along the way, the talk lightly weaves in the past year’s debates about whether Rails is still a good startup choice, how Ruby 4.0 and new type systems change the story, and why, despite periodic “Rails is declining” threads, these founders are quietly shipping the next generation of products on Ruby.
