Ruby Meetup January 2026

Dear Rubyists,

our first Meetup in 2026 will take place on January 22nd in AUGSBURG !!!

After opening its gates at Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam, the Ruby embassy (a "fun bureaucratic activity") is opening a branch office at our local Meetup group. Take a photo, fill out your application forms, grab your Ruby passport and start collecting stamps.

The Ruby embassy will also issue passports at our future Meetups, although potentially with less bureaucracy (i.e. less fun).

More details about the Ruby passport: https://therubypassport.notion.site

After food & drinks we'll switch over to some talks.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS:

• We are still looking for a second talk. Please contact me if you have something in mind.

Looking forward to seeing you all in January!

Discord group: https://discord.gg/EKqHWmCxGZ]

DATE & LOCATION

Date and Time: January 22nd 2026, 18:30 CEST
Location: AUGSBURG !!! @makandra

AGENDA

• Welcome & Announcements
• 18:30 - 19:15 CEST: Office hours of the Ruby embassy (Außenstelle Augsburg)
• Apply for your Ruby passport and become an "official" member of the Ruby community
• Food & Drinks (thanks to makandra)
• Talk 1 incl. Q&A: Henning Koch: "Limits of Hypermedia"
• Talk 2 incl. Q&A: Call for Speakers is OPEN
• Socializing (open end/as long as the location permits)

TALKS

Talk 1: Henning Koch: "Limits of Hypermedia"
Hypermedia frameworks like htmx or Unpoly are positioning themselves as simpler alternatives to single-page applications. Yet many of us recall earlier server-rendered experiences as slow, cumbersome and limited. But just as modern React is unrecognizable from its early days, hypermedia frameworks have improved radically over the last decade. Today's server-rendered approaches effectively handle UI problems traditionally thought to require extensive client-side scripting. At the same time, hypermedia apps have some surprising limitations that you might not even have on your radar.
This talk will help you decide whether adopting hypermedia makes sense for your project, especially if your experience is mostly with SPAs. We will address questions frontend developers typically have:
- Is it possible to achieve the same responsiveness that users have come to expect from SPAs?
- How would dynamic forms with dependent fields and inline validation work without extensive JavaScript?
- Can server-side rendering manage intricate UI interactions, such as multi-step modals, optimistic rendering, and client-side state preservation?
- Where does state go when I don't have components on the client?
After ten years of building both hypermedia apps and SPAs, I'm eager to share what works and what doesn't. I hope that by the end of my talk you'll know all the trade-offs to decide when hypermedia can simplify your stack, and when an SPA remains the better fit.

About our speaker https://www.linkedin.com/in/triskweline/