# Ruby turns 25. Hurra for Ruby

**URL:** <https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540>\
**Category:** Ruby Chat\
**Created:** [February 22, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540 "2018-02-22T17:40:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ohm](https://metaruby.com/user_avatar/metaruby.com/ohm/32/828_2.png) [@Ohm](https://metaruby.com/u/Ohm)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540/1 "2018-02-22T17:40:18Z")

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Ruby has now been around for 25 years!

Happy 25th birthday Ruby. We love you.

[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ruby25th](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ruby25th)

(even though Matz says it isn’t until the 24th [https://twitter.com/yukihiro\_matz/status/966699329346985984](https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/966699329346985984))

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**Author:** ![Ohm](https://metaruby.com/user_avatar/metaruby.com/ohm/32/828_2.png) [@Ohm](https://metaruby.com/u/Ohm)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540/2 "2018-02-22T17:56:45Z")

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Some Rubyist have put messages for Ruby’s 25th birthday up here aswell: [Ruby25 | Ruby25 Messages](http://25.ruby.or.jp/messages.html)

Some in English and some in Japanese.

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://metaruby.com/user_avatar/metaruby.com/astonj/32/8_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://metaruby.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540/3 "2018-02-23T01:10:20Z")

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I was just popping over to post this :003:

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Ruby turns 25 this month, and what an amazing 25 years it’s been. Thank you Matz and everyone involved in it ❤ I’m sure Ruby has gone on to inspire so many of us and so many other languages and technologies ❤💜💛 💚💙

From PragDave:

> <https://github.com/ruby-no-kai/ruby25/blob/master/dave_thomas.en.md>

I love this bit - if it wasn’t for Ruby I wouldn’t have got into programming myself.

> And Ruby has changed the world. The power and flexibility of Ruby have enabled an explosion of creativity across the internet. The ease of creating new applications has encouraged thousands of people to become entrepreneurs, enriching the lives of themselves and their customers.

Just a small handful from others:

[https://twitter.com/dhh/status/966423421008556032](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/966423421008556032)

[https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/966114282420150276](https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/966114282420150276)

[https://twitter.com/chadfowler/status/966468143148355584](https://twitter.com/chadfowler/status/966468143148355584)

[https://twitter.com/justinweiss/status/966511922119041025](https://twitter.com/justinweiss/status/966511922119041025)

[https://twitter.com/lindaliukas/status/966168020262547456](https://twitter.com/lindaliukas/status/966168020262547456)

[https://twitter.com/ryanbigg/status/966194243537637376](https://twitter.com/ryanbigg/status/966194243537637376)

[https://twitter.com/fxn/status/966329600237277185](https://twitter.com/fxn/status/966329600237277185)

[https://twitter.com/russolsen/status/966370020296151046](https://twitter.com/russolsen/status/966370020296151046)

Loads more here:

[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ruby25th?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ruby25th?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash)

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**Author:** ![BurdetteLamar](https://metaruby.com/user_avatar/metaruby.com/burdettelamar/32/758_2.png) [@BurdetteLamar](https://metaruby.com/u/BurdetteLamar)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/ruby-turns-25-hurra-for-ruby/1540/4 "2018-02-24T11:40:14Z")

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Here’s an example of why I _love_ coding in Ruby.

```auto
chdir(whatever_dir) do
  # Whatever I need to do here.
end
# Now I'm automatically restored to my original directory.

```