Ruby on Rails: The Documentary

Ruby on Rails has one of the most faithful communities online, it also has one of the most controversial, rabble-rousing creators out there, Danish programmer, David Heinemeier Hansson. Widely known as DHH, David tells us how Rails went from a crazy idea to one of the most talked-about full-stack frameworks over the course of 20 years.
Get the whole spill by the people who had a front-row seat to the creation and development of Ruby on Rails. Jeremy Daer, Jason Fried, Tobias Lütke, Jamis Buck, and… DHH tell the tale of Rails. A tale seeped with passion, pushback, and (after Rails 3.0) maturity.
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[@SupeRails]

2017-2021 really felt like the "Dark ages" for Rails, and now with Rails 7 we indeed entered the Renaissance era! 🎨👩‍🎨 Thank you Rails Core and everybody who contributed! 🤗

[@sanjayatony]

I am new to Rails, I am curious why this era is the dark ages?

[@AnonozChong]

@@sanjayatony Webpack

[@SupeRails]

@@AnonozChong @sanjayatony yes! basally, not having a competitive answer to handling frontend development. Now with Hotwire we have a very strong answer to frontend and mobile.

[@Frexuz]

While I LOVE Rails 7 and hotwire, a current app is still on Rails 5/6 with sprockets. Works fine.. Not sure why you would need to move to webpack(er) unless you needed Rails+react :) So in those years, i think the MAJORITY of rails apps did _not_ use webpacker. So I can't agree that it was some kind of dark age. At that moment in time, Rails was as good as Rails has ever been, and I think most Rails devs really enjoyed it still.

[@rockatanescu7023]

@@sanjayatony I'd argue it actually started a bit earlier, around 2014, and there were three main reasons: 1) The rise in market share of mobile devices 2) The rise in popularity of the microservice-based architecture 3) The Federal Bank's zero interest rate policy Back in the 2010s, the web UIs were generally targeted towards desktop or laptop users, which meant that the window was generally wider than taller. Mobile devices were in portrait mode so you had to rearrange the UI to fit the display and it was much easier to do it as a mobile application since you could also take advantage of the native performance. This meant that the backend had to build an API. Since the API had to be built for the mobile app, this allowed developers to consider the web as another type of "view", which is basically the reason why frameworks such as Angular (2010) and React (2013) appeared. Rails had some support for JavaScript, but the main advantage was generating the HTML on the backend and sending it to the browser. You could do things like partial page updates using RJS, but this approach broke down if you had a more complex UI. At the same time, microservices were becoming extremely popular, while Rails was moving in the other direction with a monolithic architecture and even removing ActiveResource, which simplified a lot working with other RESTful services. Since companies needed to hire dedicated JS developers anyway for their web UIs it made a lot of sense for them to switch the backend to NodeJS, especially since you could split the complexity of the project into multiple microservices (or that's what people thought). Go was another popular language because it is simple enough to pick up, had the support of a behemoth like Google (NodeJS was backed by Microsoft and Joyent back then) and had excellent performance. The side-effect of having complex UI libraries like Angular or React is that things tend to move slower than just outputting some HTML because you add that huge dependency to build complex UIs which are not trivial to do. However, you can overcome this by hiring more developers, but you can do that only if you have enough money, but the Federal Bank's zero interest rate policy meant that investors were more keen on investing money in companies even if the risks were higher, so it was easier to raise money. There are a couple of other small reasons as well. One was the reputation that Rails apps that they are very hard to maintain. This is partially true because a lot of companies would build a prototype, release it as a final version and then start patching it while also building new features. Since basically every new web app built in 2006-2010 was a Rails app written by people that were using Ruby and Rails for the first time, their codebases became an absolute mess by 2012-2014 (back then I was hired by a company that was doing 1M views/day and one of the tasks to get familiar with the codebase was to remove the SQL queries from the views). Another one, which is also mentioned in this video, was that Rails can't scale. The main reason was that everybody was trying to be the next Facebook or Twitter, so everybody was trying to have as many daily users as possible and worry about generating a revenue later. Rails wasn't great at that. You could most certainly build a successful business with Rails and many startups did, but you simply could not build something with a similar scale as Facebook, Amazon or eBay. There was also the story of Twitter having outage issues because of Rails, but if you dig enough you'll find out that they had a lot of questionable technical decisions (like not paginating the list of followers while adding an auto-refresh script on every page, which would basically DDoS their database, or having their automated tests generate profile images in production even if the code was running locally, which killed the filesystem because they had millions of profile images in the same folder). Finally, many Rails core members moved away from Ruby after a decade of rather intensive work, as they were more interested in other languages like Rust or JavaScript, or even built their own language, which is what Jose Valim did with Elixir. Dave Thomas, who was instrumental in popularizing Ruby in the US, became very interested in Elixir and Erlang (and still is to this day), while Martin Fowler hasn't published anything on his blog about Ruby since 2014. And I honestly think it's normal for a programmer to look towards the future. I've started working professionally with Ruby in 2007 and a decade later I was interested much more in things like Clojure and wanted to move away from Ruby. Hopefully this answers your question 🙂

[@RamiGB]

Rails have changed my life, literally! it gave me a job that turned into a career that made me immigrate to another country and start a family. Love you guys will always do

[@shivasaraswat9566]

do learning ruby on rails still worth it?

[@RamiGB]

​@@shivasaraswat9566Yes and no! Yes because Ruby and Rails both are amazing. No because I am not sure it is still in demand as it was 10+ years ago. If you are seeking the job learn something in JS land you are more likely to get a job. if you want to do it for the sake of learning then absolutely go for it.

[@rookie60]

​@@shivasaraswat9566 yeah it is worth better than node

[@tmthyha]

@@shivasaraswat9566 absolutely. will you get a job with it? maybe. will you take what you learned about backend development from rails into whatever stack you end up doing? yes.

[@atstockland]

I've been a solo developer on a large project for over ten years. I've been using Rails basically the entire time. A genuine thank you to the Rails contributors for allowing me to do that and for teaching me how to do it correctly. Shout out to Ryan Bates for really helping me get rolling. I think RailsCasts deserves a mention on this timeline due to his influence on so many people and helping the Rails' trajectory.

[@simomed5002]

I've learned Rails in 2011 and RailsCasts was one of the best source that helped all of us learning Rails and loving it. Sad to not see Ryan Bates mentioned, the effort he did to grow the Rails community is underrated

[@alexeycherkashin6251]

0:24 How Jason Fried met DHH 2:53 David's relationships with programming 4:18 Jason and David meet for the first time in person 5:11 Basecamp idea and execution 6:38 How and why Ruby was chosen for the project 9:24 How Rails framework was born 11:47 Rails started to take off 13:51 How Jeremy Daer jumped in 15:58 Jamis Buck's turn 17:26 First year of the Rails development 20:37 Rails marketing 22:15 Tobias Lütke first feelings about Rails 25:46 How the core team was built 28:01 Rails should be open-sourced. Period 30:25 Jamis'es baby: Capistrano 31:13 Key moments of early Rails development (1) 32:17 "Rails can't scale" thing 🙄 35:29 Security side 35:51 Key moments of early Rails development (2) 36:43 Suddenly, competitor: Merb 😱 38:06 Rails x100 times better... 39:34 Unique community like nowhere else 40:34 Jeremy's tears 🥲 40:44 Jason's reflection on how Rails became real 41:09 From Hello World to IPO 41:35 Tobias shot outs to David 42:12 Rails for those are... (watch it!) Review article on my blog: blog.goodniceweb.me/review-of-ruby-on-rails-documentary-by-honeypot?showSharer=true

[@the13nth25]

Thank you for these documentaries. it really rare for me to find people that I can a 100% relate to. You have a way of letting people tell their stories and not direct their naratives, at least in a visible way. It is tech people talking to tech people, humanely. It's beautiful.

[@Honeypotio]

What a beautiful comment, thank you!

[@BeeRich33]

Developers everywhere should note the beginning. These guys were helpful and positive. Too many devs have egos that close out others that might be learning a topic, including a language. Too many devs forget that working with others means being nice, if you want to optimize your work. I've seen devs fired because they thought their own personal tech-savvy nature would solidify their position within a company. It just alienated everybody. Drop the arrogance, and it will help you immensely.

[@laughyourashevilleoff2546]

I'm 37 (coincidence?!) and learning programming (Ruby, then Rails, natch) for the first time because I've had so much joy using Hey and Basecamp and want to learn to make these kinds of things myself. Never too old to get started! Thank you for sharing so much about your process w the world. Y'all are awesome and inspiring.

[@runtimejpp]

Im with you, i'm 38 I started programming and tech in general when I was 34. WIsh I programmed over sports back in the day that's for sure

[@usahakuindonesia9836]

I'm starting to learn rails at 42 (rails version 3), previously I'm Network Engineer, it's been 10 years now and I'm happy with it, now I work full time as Rails Developer for some of projects

[@WolfPhoenix0]

I want to extend a huge thank you to the Rails Core team. I've been working with Ruby on Rails for nearly a decade and absolutely love it. It's no exaggeration to say that without Ruby on Rails, my career would be significantly different from what it is today. I probably wouldn't have ever learned Ruby, much less program in it as my daily job if it wasn't for all of you. Just know that you truly made a difference in this man's life!

[@charlesbcraig]

I remember being taught Java and then found Python. That was neat, but then I found Ruby and was blown away. I became the Ruby guy on campus and know one understood. Eventually I got into Rails and was blown away again. Yeah I don’t use it today, but I’ll never forget the joy it brought!

[@mattskelton7471]

As a PHP dev I have immense respect for Ruby/Rails and their community. Love to see underrated programming languages thrive. Keep on building great software and never look back.

[@dennisdashkevich]

What a great piece of work this Ruby on Rails documentary is - seeing this bunch of beautiful people behind the early days of the Rails framework! It was both so emotional and motivating to me I can't even express. This has also brought back sweet memories of my first encounter with Ruby back in late 2011 after writing some university labs in C++ for a while and preparing to get a job in Java, haha. So I can't be thankful enough to all these people and David himself for making it possible to create a career in programming because of Rails and to write in a language I truly love and productive with!

[@Succhiateste]

"I love the diversity of the people who have been able to create a career in programming because of this framework that we've created" And here I am, a 40yo Rails developer from southern Italy who started his career on Rails 2.3, and David was kind enough to give me the job of my life. Without Rails, I'd probably be cleaning toilets for two apples a week, rather than messing with database calls and HTTP requests from the inside of my comfortable house, earning more than many doctors and engineers. Rails gives work to thousands of people all over the world. I'll never thank DHH enough for that.

[@alterickoo]

I honestly wish this could have been longer than 44 mins, It's good to experience the beginning of rails from the creators. What a journey that rails has had! Great documentary!

[@mohammadraufzahed]

I really love the honeypot documentaries. You guys put so much effort in the series that when i start watching, i just drawn in the video and the energy of the people you guys interviewed. Keep going.

[@nishiit24]

A big shoutout to the creators of this documentary! Ruby on Rails holds a special place in my heart and this video beautifully encapsulated why.

[@ChristianRolle]

Doing Rails since 2006 and still in the camp advocating for it. It changed my life and I totally understand the perspective of excitement Rails still creates.

[@realgengiskhan]

Thank you David for this literal gem. Although I've been lost in the maze of JS, Go, and Python for almost 10 years, I'm now coming back more and more to Ruby and Rails. This place is like a peaceful island in a world of programmers chasing trivia, just like the real world. Rails is definitely the best-designed web framework, the first of its kind, and the one that best allows you to focus on real-world ideas. And Ruby has been the only language that has offered me so much productivity, fun and creative freedom. Special thanks also to Matz, eternally.

[@Jason1706a]

Starting with Rails 2006, doing it until 2015 and now coming back to it … things could not be better. Keep going, this is not only a framework, it's one of the most opinionated movements, that we actually really need.

[@gradientO]

It's a great time to be a dev with such high quality documentaries. Honeypot! ❤

[@tru2thastyle]

I've been waiting for this! Hopefully we can get a documentary for Yukihiro Matsumoto next!

[@egemen_ozturk]

Love to see such a high quality documentary about the Ruby on Rails!

[@briansegura178]

I just finished my first Rails book and project 2 weeks ago. Thank you to the pioneers that paved the way.

[@Devahil]

Many years have passed since I developed small and large projects with Rails; Since the first contact I had with the framework around 2006, I completely abandoned other languages like PHP and focused on developing things with Rails quickly and efficiently. It is a pleasure to look back and remember all the changes that have made the framework grow and how the ecosystem has been enriched by the contributions and useful ideas of the community. A huge pleasure to be part of the Rails user base and thank you @Honeypot for releasing this documentary, which undoubtedly offers a window into the past and great memories.

[@mynightoff]

Great documentary (with the small details like the Capistrano background), thank you. I'm one of those "non-programmers" that has loved using RoR since 2009. Keep up the good work, the silent majority are out here.

[@user-eo9wo8gr7l]

Mad respect for DHH and the entire Ruby on Rails community. We need all of you.

[@leonamorim]

I also want to thank DHH and the entire Rails team and community. I started working as a Ruby on Rails developer in 2019, today I work at another company starting a project from scratch, now in production. The company is super happy because the app runs super well. Before, I was a PHP programmer and when I switched to Ruby On Rails, it was a turning point for me in creating really quality applications. I'm very happy to work with Rails. Thank you very much for making our day so much better. Thank you very much! ❤🙏

[@raunakhajela]

Never tried Rails but I love David and Jason's leadership. That's why I am here to watch and learn.

[@abtar4294]

Nice documentary. Yesterday I found about Ruby while searching for simple yet powerful programming language. This documentary and comments of people gave me comfort on continuing ruby programming.

[@immersion7110]

As someone new to Ruby and Ruby on Rails, this documentary comes as a very lucky coincidence since I just happened to be looking for information about it. It's also the first time I had encountered this channel. I enjoyed every second of the documentary, it is really well made. Thank you for making it. Now I'm currently considering studying both Ruby and Ruby on Rails aside from the college course I'm currently attending on C# and the .NET framework.

[@Honeypotio]

Glad you found us and good luck on your path learning Ruby and RoR! Be sure to check out some of our other documentaries 😉

[@wteuber]

Ruby, Rails, their creators and communities have inspired and supported me in creating software as a hobby and professionally every since I started using Rails in 2007. As a developer, I have not come across a faster, more enjoyable and effective way to develop web applications. Thank you everybody!

[@robinclark5945]

Thanks Ruby and Rails, in many ways you kept me sane (just) while working in tech.

[@SeanKelley]

Rails was brought to my attention in an intro to development class. My instructor brought it up. Circa 2007? I dabbled in it, went to local users group, met other Ruby/Rails devs, went to a local Rails conference. I never became a developer, but wouldn't give up my experiences with the community and the framework for anything. Who knows, maybe I'll fire it back up and start a project. Thank you to the core team and contributors!

[@davidharper8132]

Wonderful documentary, thank you kindly. Always enjoy listening to DHH and Jason. Great to hear from others in the community too.

[@nomadsofcode8025]

I learned so much and built so many great things and met so many awesome people thx to this framework. I’m so excited to see this documentary being released. I still write code using Ruby on Rails and I still love it. ❤️❤️❤️

[@diogomartf]

Love Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Been inspired by David so much. Thank you for doing this doc.

[@ricardomordaunt1101]

Really great to hear how Rails came about and to see the passion and dedication to developing Ruby on Rails... 10/10 for everything that was done and achieved.. Thank you

[@ryantate587]

This is great for what it is. Beautifully shot. I’d really have loved to hear from Aaron Patterson who has been a really key contributor, rewrote ActiveRecord and really improved its performance and flexibility, and would have given another voice. Another thing I was hoping to hear about, though it would have made the documentary longer and perhaps derailed it (ha ha), is what happened at Twitter, perhaps the highest profile Rails installation, which eventually switched largely to Java. From what people like Bryan Cantrill have said it sounded like the team at Twitter was abusing Rails and Ruby in some pretty inept ways, so not as much a reflection Rails as some people say, but it did create a perception issue for Rails for a while, especially on the “can’t scale” trope. The Twitter stuff is more for a 90 minute documentary though.

[@thejimzim]

I began my own Ruby and Rails journey in late 2006 and these people were heroes to me. This was an extraordinarily exciting time to be a developer. Watching this has reignited a fire of optimism. Thank you for capturing and presenting this history in such an inspiring way.

[@simomed5002]

do you still use Rails?

[@kxijix]

Being exposed to many different programming language frequently and feeling the urge to go back to Ruby everytime is something else!

[@nyantaro1]

I love this kind of videos. I immediately see any new videos you post with this format

[@Honeypotio]

We have a bunch, just take a look at our channel 🤗

[@hernani_neto]

My first paid freelancer project was done with Ruby on Rails almost ten year ago and since then I am in love with framework. I'm grateful for those guys' work.

[@bitwise2832]

Excellent documentary. Ruby on Rails is a joy. I have enjoyed changing the world since RoR betas (2004?) Ruby is elegant, and the Rails framework is the icing on the cake. Thank you DHH and team.

[@MalachiRails]

Having made courses on Ruby on Rails. I wish to express my gratitude to the creators! I appreciate all that you do in making this beautiful framework .

[@sheko4515]

You made short courses, I am still waiting for Ruby on Rails series from you rather than the recent short videos on your channel.

[@fooledbyrandom991]

Can’t watch live but will absolutely watch later - learning rails now and rapidly becoming my favourite framework!

[@Honeypotio]

We hope you'll enjoy it later then!

[@railsofficial]

We love to hear that.

[@tolaseadegbite1027]

I feel so pumped to build this startup idea. Thanks to DHH and the Rails Core Team.

[@ask_questions]

I learnt rails in 2016 and steered away into the JS world a bit later. Started a web development company. Have been looking periodically to get back to rails due to its simplicity and have been experimenting again for the past few months. I also tend to agree with DHHs strong opinions. You can go a long way in Rails as a single developer. Hoping to build and scale something soon on Rails.

[@estuardohernandez4230]

The RoR documentation website is the best! It is very clear and helpfully.

[@singhharmeet]

I joined ThoughtWorks in 2015 and met people as passionate about Rails as the people in this video, and they still love rails. I have met a doctor who started coding in ruby because he didnt find it hard to learn coding because of RoR. Thanks for this video

[@HenriqueMarques]

I am very grateful to Ruby and Rails. I worked as civil engineer for over 10 years and made a career change, not by choice, and it looks like Ruby and Rails embraced me. I have been working with RoR for two years now and couldn't be more in love with it. Thank you.

[@fitfuelplanner]

Ruby on Rails is what got me into programming in the first place. Even though I now work in JavaScript/React, it was using Rails scaffolding code when things starting to finally click and make sense for me // also seeing DHH's incredible success was very motivating for me to get into software

[@MrKerlac]

Much love and respect to the whole team ♥ It started for me with Rails

[@idlirprendi5990]

What really amazes me, is that DHH is also a professional racing driver who has competed in top categories in LeMans!

[@ConstantineMaring]

Ruby on Rails was the first web framework that I learned back in 2011 on my first job. It will always be special to me.

[@BrianMorearty]

In 2005 I was looking for a good web framework based on an object-oriented scripting language. I didn't find Rails at first. But two years later a friend of mine introduced me to it when we started working on a project together. I read Agile Web Development with Rails cover to cover, fell in love with the framework, and Rails became the core of my career until I retired 15 years later. Thank you many times over to David and the early Rails core team.

[@tweakdesigns]

I always loved Rails compared to other frameworks available. No longer using rails since I'm on to NoCode journey but following all news about Rails. thanks DHH and other members for the lovely and easy to use framework. ❤️

[@SajadJalilian]

Thank you honeypot. I just want to give you my deep appreciation for what you did. I loved this documentary. Keep going forward on this path.

[@Honeypotio]

Thanks, that's great to hear! 😊

[@phanta5m]

i truly get the web development, pattern or anything else matter for up and running a web by myself thanks to ruby on rails, truly a great framework to work.

[@marcoprins4880]

I've been coding in Rails since 2013 and I never doubted that it would stay relevant. There will always be a place in industry for a framework that can build high quality applications quickly and without any nonsense

[@jemminger]

Thank you DHH and 37 Signals and all the rails contributors for such great tools! I've been using RoR exclusively since 2006 😁

[@kawsper]

Nice doc, thanks for making it! I had hoped to see Tenderlove in it!

[@DavidLindes]

27:45 is so true! "A lot of people's potential-limitation is learned rather than inherent"... yes! (It's like that famous Picasso quote: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” So many forces trying to teach us to limit ourselves.)

[@SimonRonnqvist]

Great documentary, bringing up great memories :) But one thing I think could have been emphasized is in which way it has influenced frameworks regardless of the programming language. They can't do all Rails does since it's not Ruby, but they've done what they can to find inspiration from how Rails does things, and that is one of the biggest ways in which Rails has been influential.

[@Webcrunch]

I'm really excited to see how far Rails has come. I use and love it every day!

[@nafcho1]

It finally arrived!! Thank you Honey Pot for the documentary!

[@Honeypotio]

We hope you liked it! 😊

[@LuisPetro]

Thank you for these documentaries.

[@AnkurSethi108]

Great last quote there. That is what happened to me. Rails provided a framework for me to be a developer. I wanted to become one and was hired to be one and learned Rails just by reading a book there. After learning the basics of Rails it provides you a way to understand web development more than most enterprise Java developers that I see.

[@learnyousomeruby]

Awesome! It was the fuel I needed to get back to Ruby on Rails, thanks for that!

[@KentvanKuller]

Great documentary. Inspiring. Now I'm going to get cracking at some Rails apps. I remember being the only one in my coding bootcamp to choose Rails instead of Node.js for our backend project. I was attracted to it for the reasons described in this video. Also, being alone and trying to get my first developer job, I will stick with it. Thank you.

[@dominuskelvin]

It did scale!!!!!!!!!!

[@siyaram2855]

Thank you everyone. I am overwhelmed with what I see here. 😢

[@savagor]

My sideproject (and I'm not a developer) has made me thousands of euros over the years. Thank you for Ruby on Rails! I am actually getting back into it, and I'm loving the new features - it really is in its best state it's ever been in. Up and onwards.

[@tolaseadegbite1027]

Wow

[@AlexKorolev]

Thank Honeypot for the video and DHH for the RoR! I've been working with Rails for 10 years already and don't want to change it!

[@Morpheus396]

WOW what a documentary! Thank you!

[@tulac553]

Love it and thanks for making Rails great again!

[@stefanobandeira]

What a wonderful documentary, congratulations to everyone

[@hansmelo32]

Well done! Made me feel like I wanted to go back to using Ruby on Rails :D

[@septianmaulana2723]

Please ruby documentary I really hope that. But thanks for rails documentary, i'm work with rails in 3 years and just found out about the early history of RubyOnRails. Thanks team Honeypot

[@jopmota]

Rails has being paying my bills for 20 years and i couldn't be more grateful to all the hands that have been improving this technology for so many years

[@adrianm.1910]

I landed on short notice at the second RailsConf in Portland, and it has only got better since then-what a ride.

[@JuanCarlosHinojo]

this is a great documentary. I think there is a component that could have been explored more. Rails basically revolutionized the entire web development industry, its influences reached every single modern language development development. We can see Rails influences in Python, Java, PHP, which basically now Rails has set the standard of how we code web applications.

[@promiseuka]

Thank you Rails for making developers like me happy 😊

[@UsefulProgrammer]

After working with Ruby on Rails applications for years, my career has pushed me into other technologies when developing computer programs. When using these other technologies, I'm continually surprised with how easy things were in RoR... and how unnecessarily complex things are in other frameworks. One day I'll be back, but for now, I'm happy to explore others.

[@andreatognoli2577]

Amazing documentary 🎉🎉🎉

[@pcodes]

I think ruby and also rails has sense of patriotism to it from the developer community which makes them one of the most unique community on the internet. You can see the love a developer has for the ruby language and rails whenever he talks about it. Which is very unique.

[@siyaram2855]

They tried hard to kill this beauty of a framework. But it stood up. It stood up against the test of time. Thanks David, thanks for everything. (I am writting this with tears in my eyes) Rails all the way...

[@Your_Friendly_Girl]

Nice shot of Toronto at 22:16 … that’s Chicago 😂

[@TheEamonKeane]

Awesome doc again. Thanks

[@joshaustintech]

Errata: That isn't Toronto at 22:15, that's Chicago.

[@MatiasMascazzini]

Great documentary! Congrats

[@switzerland]

Thank you, started with rails in 2011❤

[@heyolly]

What a fabulous film! ❤Rails

[@bonniehammond9566]

Ruby was my first fun experience and i stuck with it. It made sense to learn rails. Im not crazy experienced with rails. But its a nice way for me todo a hole web application with ruby.

[@sjadev]

Bravo on another good documentary @Honeypotio

[@Spectraevil]

My first every tech job was an full stack internship where I used AngularJS 1 on the frontend and Ruby on Rails on the backend. Feels like it has been ages…

[@DillonB07]

Never used Ruby on Rails myself, but that was super interesting and really makes me want to try it.

[@mugungangenziherve8693]

I have a strong affinity for Ruby and (RoR), but I have never secured a single job with my little 5 years experience, I always end up working in Node.js and Laravel environment, but I think among other frameworks I used, rails is the Messi of frameworks.

[@SeanCarrington]

Better than Laravel?

[@vicenterails]

I'm in the same situation. I have 5 years using Java and 2 years using Ruby on Rails but I never got my first job since today.😢 I don't heat Java but I love Ruby. I don't leave Java because I have bills to pay.

[@portfedh]

This is very insightful, both on how AI works, and how to structure learning rewards to get the AI to learn the right things as fast as possible.

[@artemiy_uo]

Ruby on Rails best web framework! Ruby best programming language! Forever! Thanks!

[@vnshngpnt]

Periodt!

[@steftrando]

What would make these docs better is an actual hands on demo of the product

[@yp5387]

Awesome. I am glad the rails is getting traction again.

[@britneyfreek]

it never lost speed. it’s just that all the kids thought js would be better for everything.