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title: Past and present thoughtbotters at LRUG this Monday
teaser: Come hear Ruby talks by Fritz Meissner and Ismael Celis at the London Ruby
  User Group meeting on Monday 13th July.
tags: community,events,london,meetup,ruby
author: Fritz Meissner
published_on: 2026-07-10
---

The [London Ruby User Group's July meetup](https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/july/) is this Monday, 13 July at 6:00pm at GoCardless's offices near Farringdon and Barbican tube stations.

Former-thoughtbotter Ismael Celis will talk about reactive command-oriented apps in Ruby, followed by me (Fritz Meissner) on fixing long-standing flakiness in Capybara tests, and how AI did and did not help.

There's an introduction to my talk at [this blog post](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/what-it-took-to-use-this-overnight-ai-solution). At the meetup you can expect more detail on the flaky tests themselves and on the interaction with Claude Code that lead to the breakthrough.

Space is limited to 50 people, so [register on the LRUG site](https://lrug.org/meetings/2026/july/) if you'd like to come. If you're there, come and say hello.