Durable messaging and related patterns in Ruby, for fun and profit. But mostly just fun.

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.

Durable messaging and related patterns in Ruby, for fun and profit. But mostly just fun.

posted 28 Oct 2025

Hallowe’en is almost upon us - get ready for the Samhuinn celebrations, maybe carve yourself a neep as tradition suggests. And then? Why, then we have November. Time for another ScotRUG meetup in Edinburgh!

What & Who

The wonderful Ismael Celis is coming up from London to speak to us about a programming paradigm that’s less used in Ruby: durable message logs. This leans into Ruby’s functional programming aspects, links up with event sourcing, and is a great tool to have in your design toolbox.

Where and When?

We’re delighted to be hosted by FreeAgent in November, and they are also supplying food and refreshments. This will be at their office on Fountainbridge, just behind the canal basin and next to the Tesco.

There will be a couple of friendly folks to let you upstairs until about 18:15

Agenda

Doors open from 18:00 for socialising/networking
Talk start about 18:30
Finish the event by heading to a nearby pub, close to Haymarket train station before 20:00

Please sign up on Meetup so we have numbers for food.

See you then!

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