Rudy.rhetoric

I first heard about Merb from Ezra Zygmuntowicz @RubyEast in September of ‘07.  My first thought was, hmmm… what will this do to Rails?  I played with Merb a little bit to see what all the hub-bub was about.  Impressive!  My buddy and I are planning to use it in our next project.

Then I saw this tweet yesterday from DHH.

“Merb gets merged into Rails 3: http://is.gd/dbnC — what a great day for the community! Read also Yehuda’s take: http://is.gd/dbnP“

I was pretty excited and shocked at first.  Not sure how often this happens in other camps, but now that I think about it…it is classic Ruby.  You see, Ruby is not just a fantastic language but the people involved are all about collaboration.  We focus on community and not about self-interests.  For example, I received an email last week from Chad Fowler, asking me to review his next book.  I attended one of Chad’s trainings back in March and bumped into him at a couple conferences.  I was not expecting to be honored with such a favor.  But hey, this is the Ruby Community.  This is what it’s all about.