Blastoff Rails 2026

About

Blastoff Rails is a community Ruby and Rails conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gathering working Rubyists for two days of talks centred on the practical craft of building real applications. The programme covers the modern Rails stack — Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo, ActiveJob, ActiveRecord, view components, and the surrounding ecosystem of gems and tooling — alongside broader topics such as testing, deployment, performance, and team practice. Talks come from developers who ship Ruby and Rails in production, sharing concrete patterns, debugging stories, and the design decisions behind features they have built. The conference deliberately keeps a friendly, approachable atmosphere with a single-track programme and ample time for hallway conversation, making it well suited to Rubyists who want a smaller, more intimate alternative to the largest Ruby events. For Rails developers in the US Southwest and beyond, Blastoff has become a welcoming annual fixture for both learning and community.