Rails was never built as a product. It was extracted from a real app, then a screencast made it explode.
Ruby on Rails did not start life as a framework. In 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) pulled it out of the code of Basecamp, a real product at 37signals, and released the reusable parts. Then in 2005 came the demo that changed everything: a screencast showing how to "How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" (DHH, 2005), which spread like wildfire and pulled a generation of programmers toward Ruby. Much of Ruby’s modern popularity traces back to that extraction and that video. (rubyonrails.org)
Related: David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · "How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" (DHH, 2005) · "Rails is omakase"
Sources
Sources
- Ruby on Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/