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When Yehuda needs money he came online to tell us some funny story.

I think he isn't happy for 50K DOLLARS got on kickstarter (1) for doing "nothing". He is a "writer" and "performance guy" but after merging his "thing" merb into rails 3 he quit leaving rails with a lot of issues and poor performances (compared to rails 2.0) and Merb... dead, as 99% of his "open source". He started bundler (badly) and leaving it in a bad shape to be fixed by someone else, same for thor and moneta ...

Now, late evening, his crew is giving him some points and comments to this crapware in order to get some visibility.

Give him your money!

He use the "opensource" only to increase his income, nothing else.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp

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Yikes. This is pretty inaccurate.

Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.

Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.

Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.

[1]: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp

As an outsider (no opinion on OP/wycats), I'm curious why the Rails.app is being developed under the name "Tokaido"? I remember the kickstarter campaign coming up on HN/twitter a while back with the Rails.app branding and was curious why I never heard about it after. Even the github repo readme doesn't mention rails?

See the blog post here, which is from over a year ago: http://yehudakatz.com/2012/04/13/tokaido-my-hopes-and-dreams...

I don't see the post explaining the rename, other than stating that at its core that the app is really a binary distribution of ruby (that can do rails things via statically linked libraries), hence IMO ruby.app might be a more appropriate name than rails.app from a technical perspective.

But from a legal perspective, you're kinda dead on the water, so that's the point.

My point was that while the linked article was interesting, it didn't explain why it was renamed (although the author did do so in this thread.)

I agree with you there. Thats some crucial information that should have been put in the article rather than explained in this thread where no one is ever likely to see it.

You're not understanding me. (This isn't too important, but I'll explain.)

dmix asked why the company was renamed. ics referred dmix to a post. I pointed out that the post ics pointed to doesn't answer dmix's question. wycats had written this in the past and shouldn't be accountable to ics linking to it for this purpose.

I knew that the article did not specifically address the change but at least made it clear that the change had been in place for some time. It was my mistake for forgetting to include reference to the tweet from wycat which did specifically address the question.

I was asked to choose a name that didn't potentially confuse the project as officially endorsed by the Rails project and DHH.

This kind of comment makes me cringe. Did you really have nothing positive to say?

Let me guess, an angular guy?

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