fast Ruby becomes, because no one can use a language with bugs.” “If he was a fish then patches would be water, because he lives on them.” “He’s a tireless contributor. It’s unbelievable how fast he fixes Ruby bugs.” “He is the MRI ‘Patch Monster’.”
and optimizations in Rails this year.” “She's deprecated things, removed code, refactored confusing or brittle code. We need more people like her.” “She is mentoring students to start to contribute to OSS, specifically to Rails. We need people like her to keep our community growing.”
have in the community.” “She strives to teach and share at every opportunity.” “She's written some of the best essays on diversity, Ruby, and databases that I've read in the last few years, she's a rubyist, and she's a hero.” “She contributes to the open source and Ruby communities in ways that a glance at a GitHub profile fails to communicate.”
years, making him the #5 contributor over that period.” “He does extensive documentation work, and brings in and facilitates new contributors to the Ruby ecosystem.”
libraries, foremost among them the peerless Sequel.” “He offers the most incredibly patient and helpful support, as any viewing of sequel-talk will illustrate.” “The Sequel Library is a massive body of intellectual work, mostly contributed by one person. Just look at the size, scope and breadth of the work. Its astounding.”
working on Discourse has been a breath of fresh air in the Ruby community.” “Everyone wants faster programs, few do anything about it. He’s championed and written speed and benchmarking utilities for years.” “He contributes a lot to the Ruby and Rails community in terms of performance and benchmarking. Rails 4.2 would have serious issues without him.”