Well...Twitter was at the forefront of pushing the boundaries of Rails in it's early days. Testing it's stability and scalability.
Sure, it might not have been @ev specifically, but Twitter sure did. Hence @ev did.
Sure, it might not have been @ev specifically, but Twitter sure did. Hence @ev did.
Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial implementation) was a member of the Rails Core team. Jack was originally going to develop it in Python, C, and Ocaml. I don't believe that Ev ever had anything to do with the decision to use Rails.