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Ruby On Rails 7.0.4 🛤️ Release Changes

Tom Smykowski
3 min readNov 16, 2022

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On 9/9/2022 Ruby on Rails 7.0.4 was released. Ruby on Rails (Rails) is a popular full stack framework based on the Ruby language.

Why people love Ruby?

Ruby language was invented by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in 1993. Already knowing Perl and Python, he wanted to create something better:

I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for but couldn’t find one. So I decided to make it.

As a result Ruby language was born. A language that requires almost none syntax decoration. You will easily recognize Ruby code, because it reads like a good short novel.

You can learn Ruby with an excellent online ebook by Chris Pine. You’ll also find out that Ruby makes asynchronous, and functional programming quite easy.

Ruby on Rails Philosophy

Ruby on Rails was released initially in 2004 thanks to David Heinemeier Hansson. It is one of the few frameworks that are driven by a clear vision, basically a David Hanssons engineering Manifesto that I’d hope more people would learn about. The main points of the…

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

🚀 Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer | Angular · Vue.js · React | Design Systems, UI/UX | Looking for a new project! 📩 contact@tomasz-smykowski.com

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