From: David Vallner Date: 2006-01-16T03:11:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Rails and Ruby in Germany -> Rails is Ruby killer application On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:01:11 +0100, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote: > Hi! > > For a quite some time Ruby's lead an orphan's life. Even university > book stores in Bonn (former capital) and Cologne (one of the biggest > cities in Germany) had few if any books on Ruby in stock. This > situation persisted for at least two years. > > The change took place when Rails entered the scene and "Agile Web > Development with Rails" was published. Suddenly Ruby books that in > principle were already available for quite some time) popped up like > mushrooms. > > By definition of the term "killer application" this means that Rails > is a Ruby killer application: An application that nicely demonstrates > some of the many advantages of Ruby and at the same time strongly > increases the number of people who know what it is good for. > > Josef 'Jupp' Schugt > Well yay, I hope the trend spreads on. Me wanna translated printed Pickaxe 2 ;P David Vallner