In reply to @rails · Jul 24, 202521 years ago today, after months of work, @dhh released Rails v0.5.0 to the world with the note: “this piece will grow in public.” He wasn’t wrong.
Since then, Rails has powered countless companies, grew with the support of thousands of contributors, and has kept true to its core promise made that day: "Everything needed to build real-world applications in less lines of code than other frameworks spend setting up their XML configuration files."
Amazing, I didn't know this existed! I started using Rails about 1 year later.
After writing web apps with Java servlets (and liking it), rails new and rails generate felt like pure magic.
If anyone is interested, I built a git-history explorer for rails here (with a focus on the people involved). It starts with the first svn commit on Nov. 24th 2004.
