Stories

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

• Rails was pulled out of Basecamp

  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

  The name came first, in a chat, before a single line of code.

• The Christmas-release tradition

  Ruby gives itself to the community as a present, almost every December 25.