[mtmail]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software "when not customized from their original form, meaning that they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them"

[gyanamo]

I was actually being serious. I've never seen anyone refer to a customized RoR, have you?

[jablan]

There are thousands of gems out there which either offer some functionality not in Rails, or replacing/extending some that is (typical example being rspec). Vanilla means no (too many) gems on top of Rails.

[sarchertech]

Some large companies have customized rails, and since Hey is built by the company behind rails, I assume DHH meant to imply that they are not using something special that everyone else won’t get access to.

[gyanamo]

ah, didn't know that. appreciate the response

[feifan]

I imagine the above was a joke