Overengineering Ruby with Native Extensions

Native extensions are a powerful tool that allows Rubyists to reach outside the Ruby VM into machine code. In this talk, you'll learn just enough C to write your first native extension, and all the different ways you can over complicate your Ruby apps with interoperability.

Doors open at 6, and the talk starts at 6:30. Food and drinks will be provided at the venue.

This meetup is sponsored by Shopify and Launch Coworking. This is a test run of a talk for RubyConf 2026.