# YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby & Rails powering YC startups in 2024

- URL: https://evilmartians.com/events/yc-ruby-meetup
- Date: 2024-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Conference: Y Combinator Events
- City: San Francisco, California, United States
- Speakers: Irina Nazarova
- Event website: https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-ruby-meetup

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YC is co-hosting a Ruby Meetup with Evil Martians at YC HQ to bring together fellow rubyists in SF!

We are excited to bring you the special edition of the **SF Bay Area Ruby meetup**, hosted by the most iconic startup accelerator and venture capital firm in the world, [Y Combinator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator).

YC Partner Jared Friedman is going to give an opening talk about the history of software at YC: how they chose Rails, who the first checkin to the codebase was, why Bookface is a YC founder’s secret weapon, and how Rails powers everything from YC applications, Work at a Startup and even YC’s internal calendaring systems.

We’ll also have 5 talks from YC founders sharing their novel uses of Ruby in the wild — and how it’s not the Ruby you tried out 10+ years ago. These will look more like tech talks from technical founders, and we want to bring together rubyists excited to nerd out about Ruby for a night. (And many of these companies will be hiring — including YC Software hiring for Rails-gurus ourself!)

The event is hosted by YC at their new headquarters in SF, with dinner and refreshments provided as well.

[Please apply here.](https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-ruby-meetup)

If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to Irina at inazarova@evilmartians.com