I wouldn't expect to be mentioned in the documentary, but thanks for the shout out. :)

We (Rails programmers) appreciated all your amazing content and skills as an educator Ryan! A well-deserved Ruby Hero award recipient.

I agree with that, I would also have liked to have seen Tenderlove in it.

tenderlove is legend, on both the Ruby and the Ruby on Rails sides

Yes! Tenderlove was brilliant, especially his profile image :)

Ryan Bates is a legend

Indeed. Also, kudos to Chris Oliver for taking up the mantle. https://github.com/excid3

Definitely! Chris's stuff is great.

The Ruby on Rails community struck me as different back in the day in how fun it was.

It's hard to explain but coming from a Java background the community seemed to be full of interesting and engaging characters. Some people don't really appreciate that and prefer things to be very dry but I loved it.

I'd like to shout out to Ryan Bates, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Zed Shaw, _why, Jason Seifer, Gregg Pollack, Sandi Metz, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Yehuda Katz, Dr Nic, Tenderlove and a whole heap more.

Thanks everyone, you've made it a very entertaining journey.

Ryan did so much for the rails community and all because of the joy for RoR.

Unfortunately iirc Ryan suffered a burnout and had a lengthy break. I hope all that is better now.

All is better. I still plan to blog about the burnout.

Great to hear and please blog about it - folks need to be aware of the dangers of burnout.

Unfortunately having folks around me that had burnout helped me to avoid one myself.

I think he heard us...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253485

I'm always here to speak praises for Ryan Bates. His practical videos to build features was a huge insight for me as a junior developer at the time.

Thanks! Glad to help.

Thanks Ryan. You made me love Rails and to be passionate about coding. I’m still working every day in it and still love it every single day. I have a one man SaaS that is providing for me and my family for the last 9 years.

You played a big part in it. Thank you!

Mind sharing your sass business, or the category? Always inspiring to hear about those.

I was also expecting Gregg Pollack and Code School to be mentioned. The "Rails for Zombies" course was absolutely fantastic.