Rails have changed my life, literally! it gave me a job that turned into a career that made me immigrate to another country and start a family. Love you guys will always do <3.

Rails has being paying my bills for 20 years and i couldn't be more grateful to all the hands that have been improving this technology for so many years

Developers everywhere should note the beginning.  These guys were helpful and positive.  Too many devs have egos that close out others that might be learning a topic, including a language.  Too many devs forget that working with others means being nice, if you want to optimize your work.  I've seen devs fired because they thought their own personal tech-savvy nature would solidify their position within a company.  It just alienated everybody.  Drop the arrogance, and it will help you immensely.

I've been a solo developer on a large project for over ten years.   I've been using Rails basically the entire time. A genuine thank you to the Rails contributors for allowing me to do that and for teaching me how to do it correctly.  Shout out to Ryan Bates for really helping me get rolling.  I think RailsCasts deserves a mention on this timeline due to his influence on so many people and helping the Rails' trajectory.

Errata: That isn't Toronto at 22:15, that's Chicago.

2017-2021 really felt like the "Dark ages" for Rails, and now with Rails 7 we indeed entered the Renaissance era! 🎨👩‍🎨
Thank you Rails Core and everybody who contributed! 🤗

Thank you for these documentaries. it really rare for me to find people that I can a 100% relate to. You have a way of letting people tell their stories and not direct their naratives, at least in a visible way. It is tech people talking to tech people, humanely. It's beautiful.

I'm 37 (coincidence?!) and learning programming (Ruby, then Rails, natch) for the first time because I've had so much joy using Hey and Basecamp and want to learn to make these kinds of things myself. Never too old to get started! Thank you for sharing so much about your process w the world. Y'all are awesome and inspiring.

What really amazes me, is that DHH is also a professional racing driver who has competed in top categories in LeMans!

As a PHP dev I have immense respect for Ruby/Rails and their community. Love to see underrated programming languages thrive. Keep on building great software and never look back.

I've been waiting for this! Hopefully we can get a documentary for Yukihiro Matsumoto next!

0:24 How Jason Fried met DHH
2:53 David's relationships with programming
4:18 Jason and David meet for the first time in person
5:11 Basecamp idea and execution
6:38 How and why Ruby was chosen for the project
9:24 How Rails framework was born
11:47 Rails started to take off
13:51 How Jeremy Daer jumped in
15:58 Jamis Buck's turn
17:26 First year of the Rails development
20:37 Rails marketing
22:15 Tobias Lütke first feelings about Rails
25:46 How the core team was built
28:01 Rails should be open-sourced. Period
30:25 Jamis'es baby: Capistrano
31:13 Key moments of early Rails development (1)
32:17 "Rails can't scale" thing 🙄
35:29 Security side
35:51 Key moments of early Rails development (2)
36:43 Suddenly, competitor: Merb 😱
38:06 Rails x100 times better...
39:34 Unique community like nowhere else
40:34 Jeremy's tears 🥲
40:44 Jason's reflection on how Rails became real
41:09 From Hello World to IPO
41:35 Tobias shot outs to David
42:12 Rails for those are... (watch it!)

Review article on my blog: https://blog.goodniceweb.me/review-of-ruby-on-rails-documentary-by-honeypot?showSharer=true

I just learned about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, DHH and 37 Signals this past weekend and have been watching lots of interviews with David and others about Ruby and Rails. I've been away from programming for 30 years about the time Ruby got started. I started with AutoLisp back with AutoCAD back in the early days on a 286 before the Internet. I used to run a BBS for AutoCAD programming. I then got into photography and coincidentally documentary film editing. I recently got the urge to get back into coding for personal project reasons and decided to take a look at Ruby and Rails. I really like the vibe of Ruby, Rails and Community talked about in this film and my goal is to learn all I can about Ruby and Rails and develop some really cool stuff for myself and maybe I'll even share it with the world like Matz and David did of course as Open Source. I've also been a fan of Linux and Open Source for a long time. Thank you to everyone involved in this project. BTW, Great Documentary!

Nice shot of Toronto at 22:16 … that’s Chicago 😂

Cool that they are still friends.

I use Laravel but it’s clear that Laravel would not exist without Ruby on Rails.

It did scale!!!!!!!!!!

In India, we are ages behind, I first learned to program in first year of my computer science degree. I had a computer, but I and everyone around me only used it for gaming and later for internet.
I believe all children in India should be taught to BUILD things right in school. It can be something like Lego or maybe computer programs, but that mindset of building is very important.

I want to extend a huge thank you to the Rails Core team. I've been working with Ruby on Rails for nearly a decade and absolutely love it.

It's no exaggeration to say that without Ruby on Rails, my career would be significantly different from what it is today. I probably wouldn't have ever learned Ruby, much less program in it as my daily job if it wasn't for all of you. Just know that you truly made a difference in this man's life!

Rails is not a story about technology, but about passion & people :)

Thank you David for this literal gem.
Although I've been lost in the maze of JS, Go, and Python for almost 10 years, I'm now coming back more and more to Ruby and Rails.
This place is like a peaceful island in a world of programmers chasing trivia, just like the real world.
Rails is definitely the best-designed web framework, the first of its kind, and the one that best allows you to focus on real-world ideas.
And Ruby has been the only language that has offered me so much productivity, fun and creative freedom. Special thanks also to Matz, eternally.