Ruby on Rails demo on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2013–2025.
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David Heinemeier Hansson builds a blog engine with Ruby on Rails in 15 minutes, the demo that launched Rails' momentum.
HN treats it as the model for a compelling developer demo and a benchmark for how simple web development once felt.
“I think a good example to follow for your project is the original Rails announcement video by DHH”
14 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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
in “” · View on HN
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!
in “Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform” · View on HN
i find this critique interesting, because i believe the initial momentum behind rails was sparked by a video about how to create a blog using rails without any setup in just a few minutes. ▶ this video
in “Rails Cheat Sheet” · View on HN
code2prompt.py has some interesting implications for "forking" github projects into the base of your own side project. Once this stuff matures it will be fascinating to see how the 2030 version of 2010 Rails scaffolding looks. What will the DHH "make a blog in 15min" video look like? (Edit: which apparently is 17yrs old now, aka 2006) ▶ this video
in “Smol Developer” · View on HN
The Live View demo or the Rails one? :-) Rails, it was this one 17 years ago: ▶ this video Live View, I'm not sure which is the first demo. There's "Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5" ( [link] )
in “Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams” · View on HN
Love the little details: the text in the forms is exactly what DHH used in 2005 when famously introducing Rails at a conference. ▶ this video
in “DOS on Dope (2010)” · View on HN
The original "How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails" from 2005: ▶ this video I've yet to see a single video like that from any of the new remixes/redwoods/nexts/nuxts/<god there are so many of them> And one that doesn't require 270 KB of Javascript to display a static page like Remix's landing page.
in “Remix: On Rails” · View on HN
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 counter application. Now with nextjs we are even a step further. The developers don't know how to use it (is it even possible ?) so the tutorials show just how to "start" an application, load css and how to create a route. In just a few years we came from create a full application to not even know how to do a todolist. (Imagine form validation, it must be so hard !!!). Everybody seems happy and very productive. It must be myself. In 15 years we came from 15 minutes to create a blog with this old tech to a few days of work. That's a lot of progress we don't have to reload the page ! ▶ this video
in “I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine” · View on HN
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
in “Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web” · View on HN
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 might push a lot of developers from mac to linux. I just got a new dev machine recently and it's a linux laptop. [1] ▶ this video
in “Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US” · View on HN
> 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
in “DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?” · View on HN
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
in “Meteor 1.1 Released – Now Supporting Microsoft Windows and MongoDB 3.0” · View on HN
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 original Rails video, it's the second one I think, but they're fairly similar (couldn't find the original). Back then when I saw the first Rails video I remember finding it amazing. Now it's just boring.
in “Rails Has Turned into Java” · View on HN
20 minutes? Who’s got time for that? The original DHH demo video[1], from 19 years ago, was a blog in 15 minutes. AI is clearly rubbish! :P 1. ▶ this video
in “Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read” · View on HN