@jasonfried: It wasn't just a pleasure to design and build Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy, but it was a pleasure to open them up and…
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Jason Fried shares his pleasure in open-sourcing Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy, while DHH highlights the value of learning Rails from production code.
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It wasn’t just a pleasure to design and build Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy, but it was a pleasure to open them up and give them away!
DHH (@dhh): Learning Rails from a real production app is a great way to go — whether you’re doing it for your own edification or pointing an agent at a high-quality code base for direction. Hope to see other contributions soon!
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