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Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby

73 points by duck 16y ago

ludicast 16y ago
Ruby really has had a great year. All us fanboys can now say "I told you so". Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 were great milestones. Also the community has flourished. We lost _why (sniff) and Zed (don't let the door hit you...) but some great folk really came out of the woodwork to make Rails 3.0 awesome: Aaron Patterson Jose Valim some Carlhuda guy And a hundred others. I used to enjoy watching the Rails/Merb catfights, but this strong community is so much better to have.
- petercooper 16y ago
  Santiago Pastorino too. He went from his first contribution to Rails to being on Rails core all within this year.
  - ludicast 16y ago
    Absolutely. He's at the top of the "hundreds others" :). I just mentioned those three because I use their non-rails code too all the time. Also of note are the great screencasters/podcasters like Gregg Pollock, Ryan Bates, Jason Seifer, Dan Benjamin, and it feels like I'm forgetting someone else...
    - bradly 16y ago
      >it feels like I'm forgetting someone else... Peter Cooper? :)
- clyfe 16y ago
  "some Carlhuda guy" :)) funnieast thing ever! "Carlhuda" actually its a name under witch Carl Lerche and Yehuda Katz commit their work when they do pair programming.
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carbon8 16y ago
Another thing that I associate with this year is the spreading awareness of ORM and framework agnosticism. With the popularity of Sinatra and MongoDB, along with other Rack frameworks and non-AR DB libraries, there seems to be a big shift toward web-related libraries that are Rack-centric rather than Rails-centric. Regarding Padrino: when it was released earlier this year I initially didn't think much of it, but after playing with it recently I believe it definitely has the potential to be another great Ruby web framework. It's already very usable and extremely pleasant to work with.
- krainboltgreene 16y ago
  Almost all the people I know (Including myself) who use Sinatra were more willing to use Padrino than Rails.
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73 points by duck 16y ago

Ruby really has had a great year. All us fanboys can now say "I told you so". Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 were great milestones. Also the community has flourished. We lost _why (sniff) and Zed (don't let the door hit you...) but some great folk really came out of the woodwork to make Rails 3.0 awesome: Aaron Patterson Jose Valim some Carlhuda guy And a hundred others. I used to enjoy watching the Rails/Merb catfights, but this strong community is so much better to have.

petercooper 16y ago
Santiago Pastorino too. He went from his first contribution to Rails to being on Rails core all within this year.
- ludicast 16y ago
  Absolutely. He's at the top of the "hundreds others" :). I just mentioned those three because I use their non-rails code too all the time. Also of note are the great screencasters/podcasters like Gregg Pollock, Ryan Bates, Jason Seifer, Dan Benjamin, and it feels like I'm forgetting someone else...
  - bradly 16y ago
    >it feels like I'm forgetting someone else... Peter Cooper? :)
clyfe 16y ago
"some Carlhuda guy" :)) funnieast thing ever! "Carlhuda" actually its a name under witch Carl Lerche and Yehuda Katz commit their work when they do pair programming.
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carbon8 16y ago

Another thing that I associate with this year is the spreading awareness of ORM and framework agnosticism. With the popularity of Sinatra and MongoDB, along with other Rack frameworks and non-AR DB libraries, there seems to be a big shift toward web-related libraries that are Rack-centric rather than Rails-centric. Regarding Padrino: when it was released earlier this year I initially didn't think much of it, but after playing with it recently I believe it definitely has the potential to be another great Ruby web framework. It's already very usable and extremely pleasant to work with.

krainboltgreene 16y ago
Almost all the people I know (Including myself) who use Sinatra were more willing to use Padrino than Rails.

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