In 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) unveiled Ruby on Rails with a straightforward ambition: to enable developers to produce applications at greater speed, without quality loss. This philosophy of convention over configuration altered how developers approached software architecture. Now in 2025, Rails, in its improved state, remains behind industry leaders such as Shopify, GitHub, Basecamp, Airbnb, and Zendesk. Its power is in its continual improvement.
This covers an interaction that happened after responding truthfully to "Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn't Your Enemy". I have covered multiple times the mean discriminatory ways Ruby/Rails subreddit members treat some Rubyists, which started happening only in the last 10 years.