Minor errata: Rails was released in beta during the fall of 2004. The first Rails conference (Canada on Rails) was in early 2005 and the 1st edition of AWDwR ca

Minor errata: Rails was released in beta during the fall of 2004. The first Rails conference (Canada on Rails) was in early 2005 and the 1st edition of AWDwR came out in August 2005. I believe Rails hit v1.0 in December of 2005, but by that point it was already a thriving ecosystem.