Reading Rails 1.0 Source Code
OKURA Masafumi • Amsterdam, Netherlands • Talk

Date: September 04, 2025
Published: not published
Announced: May 20, 2025

Rails is great. In fact, Rails has been great since the very beginning. However, in terms of technical details, Rails 1.0 was very different from Rails 8. Lots of things have changed, many frameworks have been introduced and overall quality has been polished.
This leads to an interesting question. What makes Rails Rails itself? What core parts of Rails still remain after 20 years?
In this anthropological talk, we dive into the source code of Rails 1.0 and explore internals.

Rails World 2025