25 Jul 2004 | Jon Gales said...

Wow. Even though I couldn't really grasp the text on the site I watched the video and am very impressed. Great idea to post a video, it really made things clear. I will have to crack open my Ruby book again. Thanks!

25 Jul 2004 | dmr said...

and breaking up that 160 MB video into chapters might be a good idea for the web!

25 Jul 2004 | Brian Andersen said...

Downloading video as we speak - will be very interesting to watch :-)

I'm still so impressed by the fact that everything was written by one man - everything is just complicated by having more than one guy work on the same code, I guess.

Had I lived near chicago, and if I could get 395 dollars - count me in :p

25 Jul 2004 | Wayne said...

Am I the only one that cannot access this domain? There does not appear to be an A record for the domain.

rubyonrails.org, loudthinking.com, nextangle.com -- all appear to have missing dns records.

26 Jul 2004 | James Zambon said...

Looks like it's time to learn a new language!

26 Jul 2004 | Kamal said...

What editor was used in the short demo video? My google-fu fails me when searching for Textmate.

26 Jul 2004 | Ian said...

Its just a shame that the server doesn't support resumable downloads for those of with a passion to learn but are limited by our dialup connections.

26 Jul 2004 | a. casalena said...

Why ruby?

26 Jul 2004 | Aaron said...

2nd the above comment... What is TextMate? the inline folders look real handy.

26 Jul 2004 | p8 said...

Looks good! I can't wait to try it.
Do you have an opinion on what seems to be the best framework on php right now: wact?

27 Jul 2004 | JP said...

Yes, where can I find TextMate? (Btw., Rails looks great! Can't wait to get Ruby up and running!)

28 Jul 2004 | David Heinemeier Hansson said...

TextMate is still a work-in-progress. A beta release will see the light of day some time in September. I'll let you know when there's a website available with more information.

Oh, and of course it's much better than it looks. I'm really happy to have left Xcode, Subethaedit, and BBEdit behind for good with this one. About time we got a decent editor for OS X.

28 Jul 2004 | Carl Youngblood said...

Does that mean that you are the one writing TextMate? Looks good. I just tried googling for it to, to no avail. It's kind of funny we were all looking for it as a result of watching your video. One cool thing about SubEthaEdit is the shared editing features. Now that Rendezvous has been released for linux and windows, they should be able to release it on more platforms too.

28 Jul 2004 | pb said...

Any plans to port Rails to php?

29 Jul 2004 | David Heinemeier Hansson said...

Carl: Nah, I'm not smart enough to write editors :). A friend of mine is doing it.

pb: No. PHP just isn't a language where Rails is possible. At least not in all the ways that makes Rails unique.