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by heartbreak 3698 days ago
Wow three whole years ago? Pack it up ladies and gentlemen we're heading to the Ruby funeral. Sorry for the snark, but tens of thousands of developers are using the real Rack every day. It's a mature component in widely used web frameworks.

Next up a JavaScript framework called Rake because who uses Ruby anymore.
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ddollar 3698 days ago
We picked Rack because we like the conceptual analogy. The naming conflict is unfortunate but there are a limited set of good words available. We hope that context will make the meaning clear.

Thank you for commenting :)

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jhall1468 3698 days ago
3 years is a life time in web dev.

More importantly, who cares? It was a common 4 letter word used to describe an item that holds stuff a hell of a long time before it was a Ruby thing.

Ruby programmers are a... dedicated bunch.

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