From: "David A. Black" Date: 2005-04-17T13:14:33+09:00 Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby? Hi -- On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Ryan Leavengood wrote: > Jim Freeze wrote: >> I've seen others make this same comment. I find it interesting >> that at RubyConf 2001 (the first Ruby conference) I heard multiple >> times that Ruby was not ready for web development. > > Yep, I remember that. It is pretty amazing that a web framework could all of a > sudden make Ruby so much more marketable. The irony about myself is that it > took hearing about Rails from a coworker (and we don't even do web development > professionally) to bring me back into the Ruby fray. Not that I'd abandoned > what is still my favorite language, I just found it hard to keep up when I have > to do Java at work. Welcome back! Glad to see you, and hope to see you at RubyConf 2005 :-) (For those who don't know, Ryan is the originator of RubyGems. Its first incarnation, and its name, came entirely from Ryan, and were presented at the first RubyConf in Tampa in 2001.) David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net