Rails World 2025 is just around the corner—and yes, the official conference app has returned. But it’s not just a revival. It’s evolved. After a successful launch at Tropicals on Rails and Baltic Ruby, it’s now ready to serve the Rails community again, this time with Rails 8, native app support, led by a volunteer from the community in collaboration with the Rails Foundation.
Built for Attendees, By Attendees
The app continues to empower attendees with a range of features, including
- Agenda browsing
- Personalized schedules,
- Built-in networking profiles.
And there’s more! Dark mode is coming soon, along with offline support and many other features/enhancements you’ll find on our public GitHub Project, where you can also contribute to any feature you’d like to see come to life.
And whether you’re on desktop or mobile, as a PWA, it works smoothly on any device. But this year we’ve gone even further by offering native mobile experiences through Hotwire Native, supporting both iOS and Android. Take a look at Daniel’s talk from earlier this year at Tropical on Rails 2025 for an in-depth explanation of how we turned our app native.
Rails 8 and Hotwire Native
With Rails 8’s shift to a “No PaaS Required” philosophy, Solid Queue and Solid Cache became the default background job and cache adapters, backed by the database. No Redis needed! Solid Cable brings Action Cable compatibility, too. We’re on Solid Queue v1.1 with reliable enqueuing and retries; performance has been rock‑solid without complicating the stack.
Deploying is a breeze. Rails 8 ships with Kamal 2 plus the Thruster proxy, so our Kamal deploy flow now delivers zero‑downtime updates over HTTP/2 with SSL, gzip compression, and simplified Docker support.
For those eager to dive deeper into the native setup, including UI embedding, shared code, and navigation, we'll explore the details in a dedicated Hotwire Native blog post. But in short, the main web repo now supports Hotwire Native interfacing for Android and iOS, and each repository is also open-sourced to serve as a basis for your own spin of a native app for your events!
Shoutout to Bram: A First-Time Maintainer’s Story
This year’s release was largely led by Bram Janssen, a junior developer from the Rails community, who took on the challenge of updating, improving, and preparing the app for Rails World 2025. We’ve been his mentors—offering guidance and reviews—but Bram’s leadership on execution has been invaluable.
Open-sourcing the app remains a priority: after Tropicals on Rails, Baltic Ruby, and now Rails World 2025, it has proven itself to be a versatile and solid foundation for community events. Whether you’re running a workshop or a full conference, feel free to fork and customize. Our goal is to keep the repo friendly for adopters to launch quickly: current tools, clear structure, and native-ready.
Fork it. Remix it. Make it Yours.
Our goal is to keep the foundation stable, updated, and easy to customize. In the meantime, your feedback is fuel. Open issues, feature ideas, and bug reports are welcome on the GitHub repo. For contributions, drop a PR like Bram did! And if you need direct support, email us at hi@teloslabs.co.
See you at Rails World 2025—and happy coding!
