1. Why I love Rails and Github

    10 April 2011

    Today a pull request to r\Ruby on Rails was opened. In short, it added a few methods that allowed an alternative use of Array#include? I happened to notice that Jose Valim commented on it in my Github news feed, so I checked it out. I weighed in as I questioned the necessity for the added methods. Others began to weigh in too, and in short time we had a good conversation going.

    Other language or framework communities might dismiss this type of conversation as a waste of time. The culture of Ruby, and more so Rails, demand it. And Github allows the community as a whole to participate in it. Days like today are days that I’m happy to be a Ruby developer.

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