Ruby on Rails demo
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN treats it as the model for a compelling developer demo and a benchmark for how simple web development once felt.
What it is
David Heinemeier Hansson builds a blog engine with Ruby on Rails in 15 minutes, the demo that launched Rails' momentum.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends grblovrflowerrr · 2018-10 · on “Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform”
I think a good example to follow for your project is the original Rails announcement video by DHH: [this video] Maybe you can do a similar app in way less time!
Recommends girishso · 2023-10 · on “”
Ruby on Rails demo by DHH back in 2005/6. I was blown away that he created a blog application with comments in 15 minutes, I was working on Asp.NET back then and it would have taken me about a week to do that. [this video]
Cites jules · 2013-02 · on “Rails Has Turned into Java”
Rails is now like Java EE because it is no longer better than the competition. It's not that Rails got worse. Perhaps in simplicity it did get worse a bit, but overall Rails now is much better than Rails then. The thing is that the competition got a lot better too. The baseline changed. I don't think the thing that will be to Rails as Rails was to Java EE exists yet though. The competition has merely caught up, perhaps a little ahead on some fronts and a little behind on others. But there is nothing that is clearly much much better. Things like Meteor and Opa are a step in the right direction, but they don't go far enough (yet). Does anybody remember this video: [this video] This is not the origi
Cites chadkruse · 2015-03 · on “Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0”
Here's a reasonably recent list of production Meteor apps: [LINK] IMHO, one of the often overlooked use cases for Meteor is rapid-prototyping. If anyone remembers DHH's video 10 years ago demonstrating Rails' scaffolding [0], Meteor is the 2015 version. [0] [this video]
Cites mavelikara · 2017-01 · on “DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?”
> There are a lot of vocal people who make it seem like you should be doing everything in Go or Angular or what have you It might be hard to believe now, but Rails also went through this stage of vocal supporters advocating for it over alternatives. If you go back and watch the introduction video [1], you have DHH creating a blog in 15 minutes using RoR. I remember being impressed by it and vocally pushing for it where I worked then. :) [1]: [this video]
Cites grappler · 2020-02 · on “Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US”
I know you're at least half joking, but for me it actually is the year of linux on the desktop. As a developer who does server-side stuff, a mac was an obvious easy choice for a long time -- a tradition that has been widespread going at least as far back as dhh's intro to rails development using textmate [1]. What does that open source crowd want now? They want to build OCI/docker containers and deploy them to kubernetes clusters. You can do that on mac, but these containers need to run on a linux kernel, so the setup winds up as containers on a VM on the host OS. If your dev machine is linux, you can remove the VM layer in between and the setup is simpler and more efficient. I think that mi
Cites edu · 2021-08 · on “Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web”
Wow, congrats. It looks great, need to try it. The video gave me the same feeling I had when I watched the original rails demo video [1]. 1. [this video]
Cites BoumTAC · 2021-09 · on “I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine”
When I started learning to code few years ago, tutorials were always, "how to create a blog ?" because it shows everything (authentication, crud, nested view, rights). Then javascript framework came out. It was so hard that they move to just a todolist tutorial because even the creator didn't know how to create a blog with their new cool tech. Some blogger were still able to understand how to use it and release todolist tutorial with authentication to demonstrate authentication, session management and rights. Then new cool javascript framework came out and now it was even harder to code, creators weren't able to develop a todolist because it was too hard so their tutorial was just a basic co