Send us a textAlan Ridlehoover shares his perspective as both a longtime Ruby developer and conference sponsor, reflecting on the evolving Ruby conference landscape and strategies for maintaining legacy Rails applications.• Started with .NET before discovering Ruby and Rails 14 years ago• Found learning Ruby and Rails simultaneously challenging, prompting his first RailsConf attendance in 2012• Memorable talks at first RailsConf included Sandy Metz on testing and DHH on Russian doll caching• Sponsors Ruby conferences primarily for recruiting, with Cisco Meraki managing over 4 million lines of Ruby code• Sponsorship benefits include promoting company visibility and filling the recruiting pipeline• Moving focus to regional conferences like Sin City Ruby as RailsConf comes to an end• Advocates for conferences addressing legacy codebase challenges for applications predating standard best practices• Suggests organizations with 15+ year-old Rails applications face unique scaling challenges not widely discussed• Proposes potential gatherings around Ruby and AI applications• Shares the insight that "trust is the antidote for fear" which helped David overcome anxiety at a conferenceUse code ODETORAILSCONF at checkout to get 10% off GoRails.com.

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