Let's Rock It Like It's 2025

About

The Scottish Ruby User Group is a collection of people who are linked with Scotland and have an interest in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

We meet every month online and in person in Edinburgh for presentations from members and guests, and a chat about Ruby and related subjects.

All are welcome, and there are no subscriptions or costs involved.

Meetings are announced in advance on the mailing list, Meetup, and Google Group and follow our code of conduct.

You can also find us on:

Meeting up

We currently meet online on the second Thursday of the month at 18:00. Currently we’re experimenting with the most appropriate video conferencing solution. Links will be posted the day before if you’re signed up on Meetup.

Mailing List

You can browse and subscribe to the list using the ScotRUG Google Group information page. The list is for announcements of activities and general Ruby support and discussion; feel free to post any questions you may have.

IRC

We have a Freenode channel #scotrug, though it’s quite quiet. There’s also the Gitter channel around the ScotRUG github repository. It is also quiet.

Code of Conduct

To ensure we provide a welcoming and friendly environment for all, attendees, speakers, organisers, and volunteers at any ScotRUG meetup are required to conform to our code of conduct.

Organizers will enforce this code throughout the meetup and meetup-related social events.

Videos

Videos of previous presentations have been provided courtesy of Cultivate.

posted 01 Sep 2025

Where and When?

Oh my gosh - it’s 2025, and we haven’t met up in forever. After Haggis Ruby last year, we’ve had counts on hands one meeting this year. It’s the longest break between meetups ever (don’t let the website tell you otherwise). Anyway, with the summer winding down and the bounty of autumn heading our way, ScotRUG is back!

We’ll be meeting at 18:00 on the 11th of September at FreeAgent’s offices on Fountainbridge in Edinburgh. Please sign up over on Meetup

What

…a meetup, a presentation, some lovely chat with other Ruby folks, and some learning.

Longtime ScotRUG member Colin Gemmell is going to give us a talk about work he’s been doing to update the legendary JavaScript at his work:

Replacing React with Hotwire

Using React back in 2011 for the front end of a interactive page was pretty much a no-brainer but at FreeAgent it never really worked out that well. With a dev team that is overwhelmingly filled with rails developers making changes to a critical part of the app written in React was slow work and often feel to a single team. Earlier this year we decided to start the process of removing React from the code base. In this talk I’ll go through more of the motivation for removing react and how we have already replaced part of the react with hotwire and look ahead to how we might remove the rest.

This month, we’re kindly hosted by FreeAgent - Accounting Software for your small business, built in sunny Scotland

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