Presents the inception of the Ruby Fusion virtual gathering which emphasizes a strong focus on Functional Programming (FP) melded with Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Constantly melding these two paradigms together leads to elegant architectures and better teams. I tend to call this advanced Ruby which requires writing less code, increased maintainability, and better patterns. This community has been formed to push these principles forward so we can keep evolving the Ruby language and the boundaries of what's possible.