[blacktulip]

Great work. Thanks for the Christmas gift.

btw: anyone else thinks Rails was mentioned too much in the release note?

[dagw]

anyone else thinks Rails was mentioned too much in the release note?

I think it's smart, and one of the big reasons Ruby seems to manage version-to-version transition so well. Just look at python 3 to see what happens when a language moves forwards without taking its biggest 3rd party libraries into account.

[bwilliams]

I don't think so. I think it shows that the Ruby devs are really in touch with community.

[briandear]

Rails was mentioned once, unless I missed something.

[blacktulip]

Paragraph 3 and paragraph 4

[danmaz74]

Yes I also thought the same thing... on the other hand, it shows dedication to the most important driver of Ruby adoption.

[Argorak]

I'm not sure, most of my Ruby jobs are puppet and chef nowadays.

[Jgrubb]

I promise that puppet and chef are not how the majority of people first hear of Ruby.

[Argorak]

That really depends on your field of work. For web developers, maybe not, for admins: yes.

Also, they might not be the thing people hear about first, but they are still heavily driving actual adoption.

(FWIW: I'm chair member of the largest european Ruby non-profit, I speak to a lot of newcomers ;))

[kyllo]

That's changing. I work at a Fortune 500 company that's strictly a Java shop and will probably never use Rails. Hardly anyone there has even heard of it. But we are using Chef to configure Red Hat VMs and deploy app builds.