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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