Early on, these guys had blogs and it was some of the only content you could find on Rails. The documentation was pretty much nonexistent and not very easy to g

Early on, these guys had blogs and it was some of the only content you could find on Rails. The documentation was pretty much nonexistent and not very easy to grasp for newcomers. This was before railscasts even hit the scene but these guys, and a very few others, were like disciples spreading the word. I even remember at around that time there was a fundraiser specifically to hire someone to write better docs. I think it was some third party response to all the forums where people had been lamenting the desire for better docs. This was before go fund me and kickstarter so itself was a little unusual at the time.