Ruby On Rails

“This is also one of the reasons why I got so into building software tools, Ruby on Rails, everything else. Many of these tools are functions of procrastination.”

“I built GStack to encode this three weeks ago, and now it has more GitHub stars than Ruby on Rails.”

“Second, we only wanted to build this for Java. Right. So there's obviously multiple languages, things like Ruby on Rails and all of that type of stuff was also very popular back then. But we saw that the core of the enterprise, you know, we wanted to really go…”

“If we had raised, I don't know, twenty million dollars and hired a hundred people, we would just use the same shit as everyone else, and we would never have come up with Ruby on Rails.”

“Shopify is the biggest Ruby and Rails shop in the world.”

“To give a comparison at Freshworks, when we released the product, we released in three months because we actually ditched Java. We put Ruby on Rails because it is easy to bake in and actually release that entire product in three months, right?”

“Rails is a 20 year old framework with a ton of well-established conventions. A lot of Rails code bases look very, very similar. And it's obvious to an experienced Ruby on Rails developer where a specific piece of functionality Should live, or the right Rails w…”

“But the interesting thing is that the layer below of like Ruby and Rails developers and Java developers and .NET developers. It's probably still at least as large as this was before that. The new layer just got added on top.”

“Even though Rails maybe isn't the hotness anymore. I still think it's the right place to start. It's a very, you know, it's a very descriptive framework with like, and it's not, I don't want to say it's easy to learn. It's not, but you can learn, you know, the…”

“We were really, really growing fast and we were hiring a lot of sales folks and the sales wheel was spinning faster than the engineering wheel. We didn't hire enough engineers and like we added like thousand customers or something like that. And feature reques…”

“And he actually gets very, very deep as far as like the founding of Ruby on rails and the early development. He played a really big role in that.”

“Till employee number 69, we did not hire a single programmer who actually knew Ruby on Rails. We hired great programmers and figured out that, okay, they can learn Ruby on Rails and then contribute.”

“I would almost favor an app built in rails run by one person than something that's like making more money and has a team because there's so many I'd say in between the lines pattern matching that you can do when certain parameters line up, at least in our in o…”

“My wishlist is something that is run currently by one person part-time built in Ruby on Rails.”

“We were able to rebuild the app from scratch in rails with zero downtime.”

“And then I got Hittail up to about between 20 and, well, it was about almost 30 grand a month, and then when I was thinking about selling it, because Drip was taking off, one of the developers I'd hired to work on Drip, we were Ruby on Rails stack, I had him r…”

“We saw that there actually was a huge gap in the market for Java training. Most of the other boot camps were teaching front-end technologies like JavaScript. A lot of boot camps teaching Ruby on Rails, which are great technologies and in super high demand as w…”

“Languages, computer languages don't last 50 years, right? They last, I don't know, 1015 years, especially in the web”

“The engineer that I met was, he was one of the top 10 contributors to the rails project lifetime. And he actually hadn't done any contributing for more than a year, but I look up the list of people who contributed to rails and he was like number nine lifetime.”

“Shopify, the application is still Ruby on Rails, and actually the first version of ETL tooling that was built in house was Ruby, but I think we made this decision of moving to Python around 20 13, 20 14, because we thought it's the language that most of the co…”

“Bigger companies care more about measuring your innate ability and less about measuring whether you can jump into their particular code base and be productive on day one. So it's way more likely that a smaller company is going to say, we're using, you know, Ru…”

“The first version was really a Ruby on Rails app that Nathan, my buddy, he built it over like a five-day Thanksgiving holiday”

“The entire structure of this Of this app Velocity was built in-house. I mean, really we built it from the ground up. I had the great pleasure of working with exceedingly talented people in, in particular, our chief chief architect built this from the ground up…”