Thats why he says transformative. Most of the stuff in Rails was "nothing new", but they got it all together in a package, relased it and _advertised why you sh

Thats why he says transformative. Most of the stuff in Rails was "nothing new", but they got it all together in a package, relased it and _advertised why you should do stuff like that_. The technology behind Rails is was nothing new, it was just very well applied in a fresh language.