Curt Hibbs

Biography

Curt Hibbs has always been slightly obsessed with new technologies and tracking technology trends. But he will tell you that this is simply because he is lazy, always looking for new methods and technologies to make his work easier and more productive. This led to his discovery of Ruby in 2001 (when it was still relatively unknown outside of Japan) and to his founding several highly successful Ruby open source projects.

For most of his professional career, which started in the early 1970's, Curt has been a consultant to well-known companies like Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Corel, WordStar, Charles Schwab, Vivendi Universal, and more. He has also been a principal in several startups. Curt now works as a Senior Software Engineer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis.

Books

The Art of Lean Software Development by Curt Hibbs , Stephen P. Jewett , Mike Sullivan December 2008 (est.) $39.99 USD	Rails: Up and Running by Bruce A. Tate , Lance Carlson , Curt Hibbs Second Edition October 2008 $29.99 USD
Rails on Windows by Curt Hibbs , Brian Hogan May 2007 $9.99 USD (Read Reviews)	Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce A. Tate , Curt Hibbs August 2006 $29.99 USD (Read Reviews)
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version by Bruce A. Tate , Curt Hibbs January 2006 OUT OF PRINT

Articles

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Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited, Part 2
Publish Date: Jan. 5, 2007Was it really two years ago when Curt Hibbs introduced Ruby on Rails to the world at large? In that time, Rails has grown up a lot. Curt and Bill Walton revisit the original tutorial to bring it up to date and show off how much easier it is to get started with the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework. Here's the second half of their update. Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited
Publish Date: Dec. 14, 2006Was it really two years ago when Curt Hibbs introduced Ruby on Rails to the world at large? In that time, Rails has grown up a lot. Curt and Bill Walton revisit the original tutorial to bring it up to date and show off how much easier it is to get started with the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework. What Is Ruby on Rails
Publish Date: Oct. 13, 2005Ruby on Rails is an impressive web development framework that will soon reach version 1.0. While there's a lot of buzz, it can sometimes be difficult to discern the steak beneath the sizzle. Curt Hibbs walks through the features and pieces of Ruby on Rails to show how it fits together and where its big benefits come from. Ajax on Rails
Publish Date: Jun. 9, 2005XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications. Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
Publish Date: Mar. 3, 2005Curt Hibbs introduced Ruby on Rails by building a simple but functional web application in just a few minutes. Does the ease of use continue? He thinks so. In the second of two parts, Curt completes his example Rails application in merely 47 lines of code. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Publish Date: Jan. 20, 2005The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even non-Rubyists can follow.

Blog

International interest in Ruby and Rails

June 13 2007

It really makes me happy to see the increasing international interest in Rails and in Ruby. As I reported earlier, the official Ruby site is available in many languages (currently English, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Spanish), with more in the works. My original Rolling with Ruby on Rails was… read more

Hilarious ad-spoof from RailsEnvy.com

May 15 2007

I have an admission to make. I love my TIVO because I can skip over the commercials. But even so, I always stop and watch when one of the Mac vs. PC ads comes one (even the ones I’ve seen already). Now that’s effective advertising! So, I was delighted to see… read more

Microsoft Announces IronRuby

May 01 2007

Its getting downright exciting in the dynamic languages arena! First, Sun hires the JRuby developers and implements killer Ruby support in Netbeans. Now, Microsoft announces IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)! Microsoft’s new DLR will support Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. Since the DLR is built on top… read more

Why was Rails only possible with Ruby?

March 29 2007

I am often asked if I think that clones of Ruby on Rails will become available in insert-your-language-here, and my answer is always “yes and no”. One of the biggest contributions that Rails has made to the industry as a whole was that it challenged the conventional wisdom about the way… read more

IDEs for Ruby

March 01 2007

Back in 2001 when I first got started with Ruby, there were no IDEs for Ruby, so I decided that writing one would be a good way to learn Ruby. A few months later I joined forces with Rich Kilmer and we developed FreeRIDE–the only Ruby IDE that is written… read more

Fascinating Ruby Implementations Shootout!

February 19 2007

Antonio Cangiano has provided a fascinating glimpse into the current state of the many VM implementations of Ruby. He has run a sizable set of benchmarks against seven different Ruby implementations: Ruby 1.8.5 on Linux Ruby 1.8.5 on Windows Ruby 1.9 (Yarv/Rite) on Linux JRuby on Linux Gardens Point Ruby.NET on Windows Rubinius on Linux Cardinal… read more

IntellliJ IDEA demo of Ruby Plugin

February 09 2007

IntelliJ has posted a screencast demo of their Ruby plugin. It looks really nice! Even better… in the screencast they’re using my open source project, Instant Rails, to supply their instance of Ruby — cool! read more

Major milestone for Ruby.NET compiler

February 08 2007

Professors John Gough and Wayne Kelly at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, just announced the second release of their Ruby.NET compiler that statically compiles Ruby programs for the .NET CLR. Ruby is such a dynamic language that it hard for me to understand how they can even do… read more

Ruby on Rails training off the beaten track

January 12 2007

My hometown, St. Louis, is hardly one of the great meccas of the computing world. Places like San Francisco, Seattle, and New York were the first to have local training available. Yet, even here in St. Louis, if you want Ruby on Rails training you now have more than one… read more

Ruby declared TIOBE's Programming Language of the Year 2006!

January 04 2007

Ruby is now in the top ten languages in the TIOBE index, and has been declared Programming Language of the Year for 2006 because it had the largest popularity increase in 2006 of all the languages tracked: We are glad to announce that Ruby has become “Programming Language of the… read more

1 million downloads for One-Click Ruby Installer

November 14 2006

The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows had its one millionth download sometime last night (you can see the download total on the RubyForge front page)! After working hard for the past five years to promote the use of Ruby, this is a really satisfying milestone! Take a look at this monthly… read more

Ohloh says: PHP Eats Rails for Breakfast

November 11 2006

Oloh is a a really cool site that analyzes the source code from thousands of open source projects. This is not just a static analysis either. They track every checkin and know how many new lines of code are added over time, in what language and who added them. This… read more

JRuby's killer feature

November 09 2006

JRuby is a Ruby language interpreter that is written in Java. This means that it runs Ruby programs under the JVM and, therefore, runs portably anywhere that Java runs (which is nearly everywhere). I used to think that the killer feature of JRuby was making it easier to sneak Ruby… read more

Ruby-lang.org is becoming truly international

November 09 2006

It is so exciting to see the official Ruby language site becoming available in so many different languages. As of this morning, the Spanish version just went live! We already had English, Japanese, and Korean versions in operation. But that is just the beginning. The list of translations that are still… read more

Blogging about RubyConf 2006

October 21 2006

RubyConf 2006 started today in Denver, Colorado. I wasn’t able to go this year, but fortunately others are (and will be) blogging about it. Please send me links that you find to RubyConf 2006 blog posts, and I’ll update this posting to keep track for everyone (send to curt at… read more

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