# Stories

The moments and turning points that shaped Ruby's history.

- [Is TDD Dead?](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/is-tdd-dead.md): A blog post that started a fight, and a fight that stayed remarkably friendly.
- [Jim Weirich's final commit](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/jim-weirichs-final-commit.md): When a beloved teacher died, the community gathered on his last GitHub commit to say thank you.
- [Rails was pulled out of Basecamp](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/rails-from-basecamp.md): Rails was never built as a product. It was extracted from a real app, then a screencast made it explode.
- [Ruby was named before it existed](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/named-before-it-existed.md): The name came first, in a chat, before a single line of code.
- [RubyGems is born at RubyConf](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/rubygems-at-rubyconf.md): The way Rubyists install libraries began as an all-night coding dare at RubyConf 2003.
- [The Christmas-release tradition](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/the-christmas-release-tradition.md): Ruby gives itself to the community as a present, almost every December 25.
- [The Merb and Rails merger](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/merb-rails-merger.md): Two rival web frameworks stopped competing and decided to become one.
- [Whyday](https://chunkybacon.dev/stories/whyday.md): Every August 19, Rubyists make something purely for the joy of it, in honor of _why.

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