20 Years of Ruby
Hello everyone,
As hard to believe as it is, 20 years ago the first public version of Ruby saw the light of day. Ruby 0.95 was announced by Yukihiro Matsumoto, now widely known as Matz. Over these 20 years a lot of developers have discovered Ruby and fell in love with it, including us at JetBrains. Hopefully there are many more younger people who will do the same one day. Hurray to the whole Ruby community who has helped make this history happen!
To look back on the interesting and eventful journey of Ruby today, we’ve come up with a series of humorous cartoons illustrating the Ruby timeline. We invite you to celebrate the anniversary with us.
DISCLAIMER: All graphical characters appearing in the illustrations are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons is coincidental.
After reading the story, make sure to scroll down and look for a small gift we’ve prepared for you. Enjoy!
Conception
“I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn’t like it really, because it had smell of toy language (it still has). The object-oriented scripting language seemed very promising. I knew Python then. But I didn’t like it, because I didn’t think it was a true object-oriented language. OO features are appeared to be add-on to the language. I, as a language mania and OO fan for 15 years, really really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use object-oriented scripting language. I looked for, but couldn’t find one. So, I decided to make it.” – Yukihiro Matsumoto, ruby-talk |
Birth
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First steps
1997 |
 1998 Ruby Application Archive is launched, maintained manually by Matz (May 15). Matz creates a simple English homepage for Ruby (December 7). The first English language Ruby mailing list, Ruby-Talk, is created (December 17). The first stable version released: Ruby 1.2 (December 25). Ruby is gaining popularity in Japan. |
Childhood
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2000 |
2001 2002 |
 2003 The first Euruko conference opens (July 21). Ruby 1.8 is released with many of changes (August 4), becoming part of multiple industry standards. Lightweight Languages Workshop at MIT holds discussions about Ruby (November 8). 2004 |
Adolescence
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 2006 The first Japanese Ruby conference, RubyKaigi, opens (June 10). The first RailsConf takes place in Chicago (June 23). IntelliJ IDEA Ruby Plugin is released. |
 2007Ruby 1.8.6 is released (March 13). Apple begins shipping Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X v10.5 ‘Leopard,’ released in October. Rails 2.0 is released (December 7). |
 2008-2009 JetBrains announces a RubyMine, a dedicated Ruby IDE, and opens a public preview for it (November 1, 2008). Merb 1.0 is announced by Yehuda Katz at RubyConf (November 7, 2008) and merged with Rails (December 23, 2008). RubyMine 1.0 is released (April 28, 2009). First Ruby Heroes are named. |
Adulthood2011 |
 2012Ruby adopts a cat. 2013 |
The Future
And that is not all. What’s a birthday without a gift? On this memorable occasion we’re giving every Ruby developer a small present: 20% off on your new yearly subscription before January 5! If you already have one, share this discount with a friend who doesn’t! |
Sourceshttp://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/382 |
February 24, 1993
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