Half a Year in Review – The Top Ten Ruby and Rails Happenings in ’08

The first half of 2008 has seen a great number of happenings in the Ruby and Rails worlds. Here are the top ten for the first half of 2008.

• June 23, 2008 – Rails scales – LinkedIn serves 1 billion pages using Rails
• June 1, 2008 – Rails 2.1 is released
• May 31, 2008 – Ruby 1.8.7 is released
• May 30, 2008 – Joel Spolsky keynotes RailsConf 2008
• May 30, 2008 – FiveRuns released TuneUp to help with Rails performance optimization
• May 27, 2008 – JRuby 1.1.2 is released, and runs Rails 2.1 like a champ
• April 13, 2008 – Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) is released
• April 11, 2008 – Rails core moves to Github, prompting many to move with them
• April 2, 2008 – Morph Labs makes Rails deployments to EC2 a cinch
• January 1, 2008 – Thin comes on the scene as an alternative to Mongrel

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