# Ruby Lore

A friendly history of Ruby, chunky bacon and all.

A collection of the people, stories, talks, and words that make up Ruby's history, the kind of thing a longtime Rubyist would tell you over coffee. New here? [Start here](https://chunkybacon.dev/start-here.md) for a guided walk through it all.

## The short version, in time

1. February 24, 1993 [Ruby was named before it existed](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/named-before-it-existed.md)
2. December 25, 1996 [Ruby 1.0](https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline/ruby-1-0.md)
3. 2004 [Rails was pulled out of Basecamp](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/rails-from-basecamp.md)
4. August 29, 2010 [Bundler](https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline/bundler.md)
5. December 25, 2020 [Ruby 3.0](https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline/ruby-3-0.md)
6. December 25, 2025 [Ruby 4.0](https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline/ruby-4-0.md)

[See the full timeline →](https://chunkybacon.dev/timeline.md)

## A few places to start

- [_why the lucky stiff](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/why-the-lucky-stiff.md): The artist who made Ruby feel like play, then vanished.
- [Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/matz.md): The creator who decided a programming language should make you happy.
- [David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/dhh.md): Created Rails, which is how most people meet Ruby, and a lightning rod for strong opinions.
- [Aaron Patterson ("tenderlove")](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/tenderlove.md): On both the Ruby and Rails core teams, and the community's favorite comedian.
- [MINASWAN](https://chunkybacon.dev/glossary/minaswan.md): "Matz is nice and so we are nice." The community's core social rule.
- [Chunky bacon](https://chunkybacon.dev/glossary/chunky-bacon.md): A nonsense catchphrase from _why's Poignant Guide, and a pure inside joke.

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