Q 01/05

Ruby on Rails was extracted from which project management tool built at the web company 37signals?

A) Basecamp

B) Trello

C) Smartsheet

D) Asana

Answer · why

A) Basecamp

Basecamp was the product; the framework underneath it was pulled out and released as open source in July 2004.

Q 02/05

Which social network moved parts of its Ruby on Rails stack to Scala after outages in 2007 and 2008?

A) Facebook

B) Twitter

C) Myspace

D) Tumblr

Answer · why

B) Twitter

Twitter kept Rails for its user interface until 2011, and the framework's creator blamed the outages on the company's own architecture rather than on ...

Q 03/05

Which Danish programmer wrote Ruby on Rails, earning a Hacker of the Year award at OSCON in 2005?

A) Bjarne Stroustrup

B) Anders Hejlsberg

C) David Heinemeier Hansson

D) Poul-Henning Kamp

Answer · why

C) David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote the framework while building a web app for 37signals, then moved from Denmark to Chicago in November 2005.

Q 04/05

The creator of Ruby on Rails is also a racing driver who has competed in which famous motor race?

A) Indianapolis 500

B) Monaco Grand Prix

C) Pikes Peak Hill Climb

D) 24 Hours of Le Mans

Answer · why

D) 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 24 Hours of Le Mans had him on the grid in 2012 with OAK Racing, in a season he also spent racing prototypes in the American Le Mans Series.

Q 05/05

Ruby, the language behind Rails, got its name partly because ruby was what to a colleague of its creator?

A) Nickname

B) Birthstone

C) Hometown

D) Lucky charm

Answer · why

B) Birthstone

Birthstone is the link. The name came out of an online chat in February 1993, before any code existed, and it beat the other candidate, Coral.