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The Ruby on Rails conspiracy
Seems like there’s a conspiracy going on for me to look more closely at Ruby on Rails. It all started with Brian McCallister‘s post.
Then, while looking at the Rails website, I noticed that references were made to Basecamp, which I had previously put in a corner of my mind a while ago as something to look at, being in a similar application segment than Mesquite. Basecamp was developed using Ruby on Rails. The plot was thickening…
Just recently, I got to meet Brian personally and he tried to convince Robert and I to use Rails to develop Mesquite… 
Finally, TextMate, a much hyped text editor for OS X, was officially released today. Looking at their website, I noticed a block on the right column called TextMate in Action pointing to a video none other than the one that was pointed to by Brian! And I’m like: WTF? This was getting scary!
Decided to not let coincidences take the better of me, I investigated some more and found that TextMate, Basecamp and Ruby on Rails were all developed by the same guy. Whew! There was a rational reason (there’s a pleonasm for you) behind this madness…
Man, the persecution never ends: Dion Almaer chimes in! This setup movie has become something of a blockbuster! 
You Don’t Know Jesus from the album Rock Action by Mogwai
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about 5 years ago
That guy is watching you, too!
Please do come on board. We’d love to have you as customer on the two commercial trains and as a developer on the single set of Rails.
about 5 years ago
David: I hope you didn’t think it was rude to refer to you as “the guy”…
Concerning TextMate, it’s downloaded and I gave it a very short try-out. I need to play some more with it. As for Basecamp, it’s been on my list of things to check out for a long while and someday, I will. Rails is now also in that queue!