Ruby Lore

Timeline

The Ruby canon, in order. Every dated stop on the tour, oldest first.

  1. Ruby was named before it existed

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

  2. Ruby 1.0

    Ruby's first public 1.0 release, delivered on Christmas Day.

  3. The Pickaxe

    The nickname for the first big English Ruby book (there is a pickaxe on the cover).

  4. 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.

  5. Ruby 3.0

    The "Ruby 3x3" promise, delivered on Christmas Day 2020.