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Curious when did shopify go with Ruby/rails. If I remember when the company was initially started they were looking for php developers. Was the orginal stack
by wolco 9y ago
Curious when did shopify go with Ruby/rails. If I remember when the company was initially started they were looking for php developers. Was the orginal stack built in Ruby/rails?
- burke 9y agoNope, we've been Rails since before Rails was even public. I'm sure we've hired a PHP developer here and there over the years, but our core platform has always been Ruby.
- ksec 9y ago>Nope, we've been Rails since before Rails was even public. How is that possible? Or you mean Ruby before Rails?
- burke 9y agoTobi knows DHH; apparently we started building with rails before its public release. Don't quote me on that, but I've heard it in passing a few times.
- halostatue 9y agoProbably before Rails 1.0, certainly. I don’t remember if Tobi was involved in the Ruby community in late 2004 when DHH introduced Rails at RubyConf 2004 (in DC), and I don’t remember him being at that conference, either. But I do remember seeing Tobi involved in ruby-talk by early 2005. But Shopify has always been a Rails shop.
- girvo 9y agoMight be thinking of Etsy, they (are/were?) PHP