---
title: thoughtbot in Asia
teaser: Speaking engagements in Japan and Singapore.
tags: news
author: Matt Mongeau
published_on: 2013-05-28
---

We flew all the way over the Pacific Ocean to meet you fellow Rubyists at these
conferences in Asia in the upcoming weeks:

## May 30 - June 1 — [RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org) (Tokyo, Japan)

こんにちは、日本！ We'll be having two thoughtbotters presenting talks at this
conference:

### Thursday at 5:00pm

[You have to test multiple versions of your gem's dependencies. You used
Appraisal. It's super effective!](http://rubykaigi.org/2013/talk/S59)

[Prem Sichanugrist](https://twitter.com/sikachu) will be talking about how to
use the Appraisal gem to manage code that needs to be tested against multiple
versions of dependencies.

### Saturday at 11:00am

[The Origamist's Ruby: Folding better code](http://rubykaigi.org/2013/talk/S24)

[Matt "Goose" Mongeau](https://twitter.com/halogenandtoast) will be talking
about how to think about code more like Origami in order to find the true beauty
of code.

## June 7 - 8 — [Red Dot Ruby Conference](http://reddotrubyconf.com) (Singapore)

Hello, Singapore! We'll have one thoughtbotter presenting a talk at this
conference:

### Saturday at 8pm

[Dependencies Testing With Appraisal And
Bundler](http://reddotrubyconf.com/schedule#sikachu)

Prem will be talking about how to use Appraisal gem here as well, but the talk
will be slightly different. If you miss Prem's talk at RubyKaigi, you can catch
his talk here. Let him show you how Appraisal can make your gem testing easier,
and a sneak peek of version 1.0!

During these conferences we'd love to meet up with other developers to chat
about code, our [open source projects](http://thoughtbot.com/community), or
anything from [Learn](https://learn.thoughtbot.com/). We'll see you soon!