On 22nd April RubyConf Bangladesh 2017 was arranged by Ruby Community Bangladesh at University Grant Commission Auditorium, Dhaka. Around 150 developers have participated in this conference. On this daylong program 10 tech talks was presented by expert rubyists. Nascenia & BdREN were gold sponsor of the conference & BDOSN assisted as partner.

Experts discussed about different frameworks of Ruby, especially Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a popular full stack web application development framework, which allows us to launch a web application really fast. Popular products like airbnb.com, slideshare, Github are developed using Ruby on Rails. Biyeta.com, ishkul.com are one of few sites in Bangladesh that are built using this framework.

Judging from the eagerness & enthusiasm of the participants, undoubtedly Ruby on Rails is emerging as a popular framework in Bangladesh. The objective of the program was to develop network among Ruby community & to encourage new programmers.

In future, the organizer RubyBD wants to arrange the program at a larger scale.