This article was originally published on.cultbyPatrick Helm.
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Once, there was a little online quiz with 10 questions.
Neither Matz nor DHH scored 10/10.
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David Heinemeier Hanson, akaDHH, invented the Rails framework.
Why did I fall in love with Ruby on Rails?
A friend replied:There is a new kid on the block, called Ruby On Rails.
I then started following a guide on how to build a Twitter clone and a simple blog with RoR.
That took me less than 2 days.
Working with the syntax of Ruby/Rails, quite often it almost reads like an English text.
Its no wonder then that theRails doctrineisOptimize for programmer happiness.
After this experience, I went to do an internship explicitly using Ruby on Rails.
Packages in Ruby are called gems.
So we got a great packaging system called rubygems.
Im (still) lovin it
Even today, Im still a Rubyist by day and night.
Rails and Ruby evolve continuously.
As a tradition, a new Ruby major/minor version is released every Christmas.
As a present to the community.
Rails might not be the coolest kid on the block anymore.
Its grown up, but still surprises the community with new useful features and improvements.
What I still value quite a lot isRails is omakase.
Aka, it ships with a lot of defaults which are easy to change!
Do you just want to use Rails as an API and not ship HTML over the wire?
Thats exactly what were using Rails for over at Honeypot.
Is anyone still using Rails?
A common phrase I read or hear from time to time isIsnt Rails dead yet?.
Just recentlyRails 7.1has been released with over 800 different individual contributors!
And thats consistent with the recent history of Rails development.
So maintenance-wise its definitely not dead yet.
Almost a year ago the Rails Foundation was founded.
This is a non-profit organisation aimed at improving the documentation, education, marketing, and events around Rails.
One of its major milestones was hosting the very first Rails World conference in Amsterdam this year.
Tickets were sold out within 45 minutes!
Id say, thats a sign of a pretty active community.
But does it scale?
Ok, so its not dead.
But does it scale?!
Thats a phrase I read/hear even more often.
But did you know that youre most likely using a Ruby On Rails website almost daily?
Im talking about GitHub and GitLab.
Both of them are pretty classic Ruby On Rails applications.
I love that part of Ruby on Rails.
Watch thetrailerof Honeypots upcoming documentary about Ruby on Rails (coming to you on Nov 9).
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