But I think both the blog, and leveraging it, and Rails, and leveraging that, are both exactly a part of what they've been telling people: here's how you can bo

But I think both the blog, and leveraging it, and Rails, and leveraging that, are both exactly a part of what they've been telling people: here's how you can bootstrap, it's what we did, and it could work for you too. Releasing Rails was a way to capitalize on some internal work they did anyway. The audience for one product can be directed to another one, and vice versa. One big happy growing snowball effect.