I see red... everywhere!

Posted by Eric Stewart Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:37:00 GMT

I already felt like a latecomer getting my introduction to Ruby around 2001/2002. The language had been around almost 10 years at the point. I even felt lucky to attend RubyConf 2003 where I felt this great energy of something about to take a decent chunk of the world by storm. Unfortunately I haven't be able to devote quite the amount of time I would like to the cause, but Ruby still makes me happy.

I have been working with Rails some as well recently on some personal projects and am really enjoying it. It has been nice to see a Ruby based tool gain some popularity and promote the language, but the nicer thing is what a great framework and tool it is turning out to be (independent of it's implementation language). I'm actually enthused about doing more web development these days (something I have shied away from in favor of richer client, mobile, and server side development).

Unfortunately I wasn't able to do as much with it before mainstream adoption. Now such notables as James Duncan Davidson are publicly reporting very positive experiences with it all. Congrats to the Ruby and Rails developers for creating something so useful!

Viva la Ruby!