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Scottish Ruby User Group

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.

Building an LLM in Ruby

posted 16 Sep 2025

What

September marked the resumption of ScotRUG in person meetups. It was great to see so many faces new and old! As the light continues to fade from the sky, and thoughts turn to the cooler days of the year, it’s time to look forward to our October meet up. Meetups aren’t all ScotRUG is about, but it is great to talk to folks in person.

This month we have talks brought to us by the fine people of RubyNess, on the topic of Large Language Models (LLMs).

First up, we have Gavin Morrice, who promises “How to build an LLM from scratch in Ruby”, demonstrating the basic concepts, but in Ruby. Secondly, we have Sergey Sergyenko, who will talk about how you might use an LLM from a Ruby program.

And finally, bring your laptops! Sergey has an idea and needs some people with their development environment to demonstrate it.

Where and When?

We’ll meet, as we always do, on the second Thursday in October:

October 9th Meetup start time: 18:00

As usual, we’ll have time to socialise before and after. We’ll confirm the venue next week, and give you the details of our lovely sponsors then too.

That’s it! If you want to come along, please RSVP on Meetup

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