DISQUS

Sho · 1 year ago

Thanks for the interesting article. I was just raving to someone not 2 hours ago how neutral intermediaries like Rack were the way of the future, replacing the tight coupling and inflexibility of Mongrel et al; I was thinking of writing up my thoughts but you've said it better than I could.

One thing I find interesting that you didn't mention is the power of a single person's initiative and how it can be amplified by open source. One day we didn't have Rack, then someone decided a neutral API sitting between these components was a good idea, coded it up, released it, and bingo - the best practise of hooking together servers and applications in Ruby was turned on its head, by one person, in what, a few weeks? And now we have a de facto standard, we can plug and play servers and applications with the greatest of ease, and interoperability got that much better.

I don't want to sound soppy but that is inspiring and one of the reasons I love the open source community so much.

Thanks again!

Jeremy Pinnix · 1 year ago

That person was Christian Neukirchen, and this is the post where he announced it:
http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2007/02/in...