This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Tobias Luetke. Original Post: Happy Birthday Rails! Feed Title: too-biased Feed URL: http://blog.leetsoft.com/xml/rss/ Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money. Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Tobias Luetke Latest Posts From too-biased

Rails is 1 year old .

I have been there almost from the start and boy what a ride it has been.

It has not only attracted thousands of developers and, more importantly, the top percent of the programming community—it also leaked its methodology everywhere. There is no web framework which has seen active development in the last year which didn’t incorporate at least some of rails concepts.

Today we expect full stack frameworks, resent xml sitpups, demand aesthetically pleasing code and prefer code generators over one size fits all framework solutions. We don’t code things anymore which the framework already knows about. We don’t repeat ourselves anymore.

I believe that Rails has fundamentally redirected the direction code by developers for developers was going. Less is more. Make something beautiful. Use the right half of your brain. I feel a lot better about my profession’s future now then I did a year ago. Thanks Rails and especially thank you david for making it !