David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

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How?

Oh, someone is looking out for the human here, not for the machine.

So that really got me interested.

And then I thought to myself, do you know what?

I know PHP quite well.

I'm not

an amazing programmer.

I haven't been working in programming for all that long, but maybe I can figure it out.

I'm going to give myself two weeks.

I'm going to write a proof of concept where I talk to a database, I pull some records, I format them a bit, and I display them on an HTML page.

Can I figure that out in a couple of weeks?

It took about one weekend and I was completely mesmerized.

I was completely mind blown because Ruby...

was made from my brain like a perfect tailored glove by someone I'd never met.

Like, how is this even possible?

There's line noise.

Here's a while loop that does five iterations.

You can literally type the number five

Now I'm calling a method under number five, by the way.

That's one of the beautiful aspects of Ruby, that primitives like integers are also objects.

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