Rails World 2025

Official Agenda

Here were the talks on the two Rails World stages. Registered attendees were sent a link to the Rails World 2025 app with more detailed times and locations.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

09:00 - 10:00

Doors Open

10:00 - 11:00

Rails World Opening Keynote

DHH - Rails Core

11:15 - 11:45

Multi-Tenant Rails: Everybody Gets a Database!

Mike Dalessio - Software Developer & Gummi Bear Lover, 37signals

11:15 - 11:45

Startup Speed, Enterprise Scale: Rails Powers 3k Events/Sec Throughput

Austin Story - Senior Engineering Director, Product Platform, Doximity

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch sponsored by Codeminer42

13:00 - 13:30

SQLite Replication with Beamer

Kevin McConnell - Lead Programmer, 37signals

13:00 - 13:30

Teaching Rails with the Real Thing: Onboarding Engineers into a (Massive) Monolith

Katarina Rossi - Staff Software Engineer, Procore

13:45 - 14:15

The Rise of the Agent: Rails in the AI Era

Kinsey Durham Grace - Software Engineer on Copilot, GitHub

13:45 - 14:15

Resumable Jobs with Active Job Continuations

Donal McBreen - Lead Programmer (Security, Infrastructure and Performance), 37signals

14:45 - 15:15

Taming the Beast: Safely Managing Database Operations in Rails in a Team of 100s

Miles McGuire - Staff Engineer, Intercom

14:45 - 15:15

From Chaos to Clarity: Structured Event Reporting in Rails

Adrianna Chang - Staff Software Engineer, Shopify

15:45 - 16:15

The $1B Rails Startup: Scaling from 0 to Unicorn in Four Years

Jack Sharkey - CTO / Co-Founder, Whop

15:45 - 16:15

Active Record 8: Resilient by Default

Hartley McGuire - Rails Issues Team & Senior Developer, Shopify

16:30 - 17:30

Day 1 Closing Keynote: Hotwire Native - A Rails Developer’s Secret Tool for Building Mobile Apps

Joe Masilotti - The Hotwire Native guy