# People

The people whose names get invoked over and over in Ruby's history.

- [_why the lucky stiff](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/why-the-lucky-stiff.md): The artist who made Ruby feel like play, then vanished.
- [Aaron Patterson ("tenderlove")](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/tenderlove.md): On both the Ruby and Rails core teams, and the community's favorite comedian.
- [Chad Fowler](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/chad-fowler.md): A community architect who helped build the gatherings and the nonprofit that hold the Ruby world together, and wrote the career book many programmers grew up on.
- [Dave Thomas ("PragDave")](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/dave-thomas.md): The co-author whose book carried Ruby out of Japan and into the English-speaking world.
- [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.
- [Gary Bernhardt](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/gary-bernhardt.md): The person behind "Wat," and behind some of the most careful teaching in the Ruby world.
- [Jim Weirich](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/jim-weirich.md): The teacher who built Rake, could explain anything, and whose passing the whole community grieved.
- [José Valim](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/jose-valim.md): A Rails Core alum who took Ruby's love of programmer happiness and built a whole new language around it: Elixir.
- [Katrina Owen](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/katrina-owen.md): She built the free coding-practice platform that mentors a million learners, and co-wrote the book on writing better objects.
- [Koichi Sasada](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/koichi-sasada.md): The engineer who gave Ruby a real engine, then taught it to run many things at once.
- [Nobuyoshi Nakada](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/nobuyoshi-nakada.md): The "Patch Monster": report a Ruby bug and a fix seems to appear before you finish your coffee.
- [Sandi Metz](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/sandi-metz.md): Ruby's clear voice on object design, and the person who taught the community when NOT to abstract.
- [Sarah Mei](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/sarah-mei.md): Co-founder of RailsBridge, and one of the clearest voices for the idea that code is really about people.
- [Steve Klabnik](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/steve-klabnik.md): The Rubyist who saved a beloved artist's final work, then went on to write Rust's official book.
- [Yehuda Katz](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/yehuda-katz.md): The Rubyist who gave Ruby its dependency manager, then carried that build-the-tools instinct into JavaScript and Rust.
- [Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/matz.md): The creator who decided a programming language should make you happy.
- [Yusuke Endoh ("mame")](https://chunkybacon.dev/people/yusuke-endoh.md): The Ruby committer who turns the language into playful art: quines, spinning globes, and a contest for the weirdest programs imaginable.

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