# Blue Ridge Ruby Insights & Experiences

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Podcast: [Remote Ruby](https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505)
Published: 2026-05-22T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, Chris, Andrew, and David are back together with David starting out giving a recap of Blue Ridge Ruby and his renewed motivation to contribute to open source. The group discusses the value of smaller single-track conferences to hallway conversations, and lightning talks. The conversation then shifts into real-world Rails and Stripe lessons, including workshop prep, validation decisions, webhook recovery, subscription edge cases, and the growing complexity of payment integratio...

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