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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

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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.

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