Q&A with the cast of Ruby on Rails: The Documentary

Relive our Q&A with David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, and the early core team members Tobias Lütke, Jeremy Daer and Jamis Buck. We talked about the community, what the future will bring to the framework, and… well, a lot of Rails stuff! Thanks to everybody for participating and especially to our awesome host, Elise Shaffer from The Ruby on Rails Podcast. It’s been a blast!
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[@cli23]

For years (maybe more than 10 years), I was convinced I didn’t like software development despite having worked in it for so long. Learning Ruby on Rails in 2011 completely changed things and now I’m a passionate software developer running my own dev shop. I always say, it’s a framework that moves at the speed of my creativity. On a side note - huge props to HoneyPot for making docs like this.

[@EmmanuelRosani]

Glad to be part of this Q A...

[@nafcho1]

Hey I was there! Hoping for more events like this!

[@SupeRails]

36:00 ok now I have to check out "delegated types"....

[@CocXx]

Did I heard correctly that Shopify is fhiring rails developers?

[@codigohouse]

cool

[@emersonxianaiespinozaaguirre]

Consentrence en Latinoamerica hay mucho potencial de nuevos programadores.

[@purpinkn]

that guy is so loud

[@praveens2272]

Honestly learning Ruby on rails in the year of 2024 makes no sense. It's like learning JSP, jsf, struts in the java world. You just need to develop backend APIS and many js frameworks or libraries out there to render the data.

[@pythonantole9892]

"many js libraries". That's exactly the problem, that to do a very simple thing you need to install hundreds of JS libaries and pray that an update on one of those libraries will not fry your application. RoR may get a lot of hate but the nonsense and FOMO that's in the JavaScript world is clearly not the solution.

[@praveens2272]

@@pythonantole9892 it's a problem with people who does over engineering.