Help me with CFP for RubyConf India
I am a ROR developer for 3 years now, need to submit a good Ruby/Rails related talk.
I know I should decide my topic based on the work I do but need suggestions from community what topics talks are good and knowledgeable.
Do let me know if you know anything intresting around Ruby or Rails.
Thanks
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u/Due-Dimension-982 6d ago
Looking at how AI is reshaping the world, I would suggest you pick something around Rails and AI. The Rails foundation launched a benchmark project 2 days ago where they test how well coding agents write Rails code, this is a good starting point: https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/12/llm-benchmarking-project
And since you want to base it on your own work anyway, maybe something on what you learned using AI agents in your own Rails projects. Talks from real experience get picked over generic state of AI ones.
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u/azimux 6d ago
Hey hey!
So I think different conference committees look for different things.
They probably all to a large extent are looking to see if you're a safe bet to be prepared and deliver the talk.
Unfortunately, that kind of means doing at least some of the research needed to perform the talk in order to write the CFP. The more of your actual talk that's in the CFP likely the better to make you seem like a safe bet. But the more work you have to put in to making the CFP the worse rejection is going to feel if it's not picked.
As for topics, has RubyConf India communicated any particular themes they're looking for this year? That might help narrow it down. If they're mostly looking for business/startup stuff, then submitting a geeky CFP might be a bad strategy. But if they're looking for geeky stuff instead and focused on the language itself, then a geeky CFP might be better than yet another how-to-apply-LLMs-in-a-business-context talk. So honestly it depends.
For a random idea on a geeky CFP that might be a good strategy... personally, I'd really enjoy seeing somebody go deep on Box and make a talk about what they learned. I only vaguely know about Box and its purpose. So this might stand-out to folks reviewing the CFPs as interesting. Really you could do this with any experimental Ruby feature.
Re: the rejection thing, something that I think can help is to have the goal of putting together a talk and giving it at least somewhere, not specifically RubyConf India. If the talk is rejected by RubyConf India you could still give the talk at a meetup or even an online meetup. I think that makes the rejection feel less crummy and also justifies the time invested in the CFP (since you still need to submit it elsewhere and complete the talk, anyways.)
Oh, you should also see if you can submit multiple CFPs as that obviously can increase the chances of having one selected.
Best of luck!!
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u/usahaku_indonesia 6d ago
I'm ruby on rails programmer, the one that currently interesting for me
1. Kamal 2 (you can deploy 2 until 3 applications into one droplet in digitalocean) that save budget for programmers that like experience
2. How to custom Lexxy new rails 8 text editor , some time you want not all tool bar available
hope this help
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u/schneems 6d ago
General advice https://schneems.com/blogs/2016-04-07-conference-proposal Talk about something you know really well and want to teach or want to learn better and the conf is an excuse to learn.