You're joking, right? Name 2 developers each for the Rubinius, JRuby, MRI/YARV, and IronRuby projects, 2 developers from Passenger, anyone working on the Nimble Methods blog, anyone working on EventMachine, any 2 developers working on Merb, any non-37s developer working on ActiveRecord, anyone working on Ruby-AST projects, anyone working on GitHub and anyone working on Ruby git bindings --- there, I'm at 20, and I haven't even gotten to _why yet.
Don't bullshit me. The fact that Zed talks the talk doesn't automatically mean he's walking the walk. He wrote a webserver. There are 100 Ruby developers who have written more --- and more important --- code than Zed, and I haven't heard about any of the crank calls they've gotten.
What's even more of importance about that web server(mongrel) was that there was no good web server that could reliably run Ruby/Rails apps at that time.
mod_fcgid (note the 'd' at the end) actually worked, and works pretty well. I only just now migrated away from it in favor of Passenger, which is easier to configure and has most of the same advantages, as well as being more actively developed.
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> Whatever Zed's "contributions" are, there are 100 Ruby developers who have contributed more
No, really, there aren't. Go read about Zed.
You're joking, right? Name 2 developers each for the Rubinius, JRuby, MRI/YARV, and IronRuby projects, 2 developers from Passenger, anyone working on the Nimble Methods blog, anyone working on EventMachine, any 2 developers working on Merb, any non-37s developer working on ActiveRecord, anyone working on Ruby-AST projects, anyone working on GitHub and anyone working on Ruby git bindings --- there, I'm at 20, and I haven't even gotten to _why yet.
Don't bullshit me. The fact that Zed talks the talk doesn't automatically mean he's walking the walk. He wrote a webserver. There are 100 Ruby developers who have written more --- and more important --- code than Zed, and I haven't heard about any of the crank calls they've gotten.
Let me know when you get to one hundred. In the meantime, writing the Ruby webserver is a larger contribution than say, git bindings.
What's even more of importance about that web server(mongrel) was that there was no good web server that could reliably run Ruby/Rails apps at that time.
mod_fcgid (note the 'd' at the end) actually worked, and works pretty well. I only just now migrated away from it in favor of Passenger, which is easier to configure and has most of the same advantages, as well as being more actively developed.
You mean besides lighttpd and FastCGI?