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> Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago based company Sorry to be pedantic, but... First, RoR has a BDFL based in Chicago (originally from DK), bu

by mbesto 10y ago

> Ruby on Rails was built by engineers from Chicago based company Sorry to be pedantic, but... First, RoR has a BDFL based in Chicago (originally from DK), but is an open source project built and maintained from people all over the world. Second, the amount of wealth created by companies in NYC/SV leveraging RoR is easily in the billions (not real math, but back of the napkin). The reality is that this isn't a black/white issue, but one with a whole lot of grey area and a VC speaking hyperbolically in an attempt to executing content marketing[0]. Let's move along and let the market dictate the reality, shall we? [0] - http://avc.com/2016/08/understanding-vcs/ http://avc.com/2016/08/understanding-vcs/

dkuntz2 10y ago
To be even more pedantic, but ... The original version of Ruby on Rails was pulled from Basecamp. The work was originally for Basecamp, and done by engineers working on Basecamp. While at this point in its life Rails is no longer mainly developed and organized by people in Chicago, it definitely was built by engineers from a Chicago-based company. And, DHH has at times been pretty explicit that Rails still takes cues from Basecamp's needs from a framework.
- mbesto 10y ago
  > While at this point in its life Rails is no longer mainly developed and organized by people in Chicago, it definitely was built by engineers from a Chicago-based company. But it wasn't even originally developed by people in Chicago. That's my point. After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School and receiving his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, Hansson moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.[0] The first commit for rails was November 2004: https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=2004-11-21&to=2005-06-20&type=c https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=2004... All other commits in the first year were from people in Utah, Arizona, Chicago and New Zealand. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson

by mbesto 10y ago

dkuntz2 10y ago

To be even more pedantic, but ... The original version of Ruby on Rails was pulled from Basecamp. The work was originally for Basecamp, and done by engineers working on Basecamp. While at this point in its life Rails is no longer mainly developed and organized by people in Chicago, it definitely was built by engineers from a Chicago-based company. And, DHH has at times been pretty explicit that Rails still takes cues from Basecamp's needs from a framework.

mbesto 10y ago
> While at this point in its life Rails is no longer mainly developed and organized by people in Chicago, it definitely was built by engineers from a Chicago-based company. But it wasn't even originally developed by people in Chicago. That's my point. After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School and receiving his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, Hansson moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.[0] The first commit for rails was November 2004: https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=2004-11-21&to=2005-06-20&type=c https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=2004... All other commits in the first year were from people in Utah, Arizona, Chicago and New Zealand. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson