# Ruby Culture T-shirts!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-culture-t-shirts/124890>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 3, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-culture-t-shirts/124890 "2008-01-03T15:30:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![maraby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@maraby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maraby)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-culture-t-shirts/124890/1 "2008-01-03T15:30:14Z")

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Hmmm, clearing out my drafts and found this announcement I never made,  
though I know the URL got shared. Anyways, just in case you guys  
missed it the first time, here are some shirts you might find  
desirable.

== Announcement

Ruby culture t-shirts are available for purchase right now!

[http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=36444](http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=36444)

== DESCRIPTION

Inspired by has\_and\_belongs\_to\_none, I decided to make a few shirts  
that I thought would be cool to have. I based a lot of the designs on  
various things I’ve heard that struck me as cool. I’m sure I’m missing  
lots of great stuff, but this is what a quiet afternoon will afford  
me.

All prices are as low as possible: I do not make a profit on any of  
these. If there is enough positive feedback, I’d be happy to change $1  
more on each and donate that to RubyCentral (or retire early… hah).  
Some shirts cost more because there is more to it: more lines of text,  
more graphics, therefore making it more expensive to produce. Shirts  
will cost anywhere from $12 to $22.

== FEATURES

Here are a few notable designs:

- I Ruby
- A few region-based designs (“Atlanta Rubyist”, etc)
- Quotes (from \_Why The Lucky Stiff, etc)
- A few “Pragmatic” shirts
- Code snippets
- Random yummyness!

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**Author:** ![maraby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@maraby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maraby)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-culture-t-shirts/124890/2 "2008-01-03T18:33:39Z")

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Hello

The shirts look nice in the pictures. However, I suspect this  
FlexPrint is that kind of stuff that cracks and falls off quite  
quickly. Unless I am quite behind on printing technology all the stuff  
that is pressed to fabric is bound to end up like that. True printing  
requires putting colors rather than foils on the t-shirt. That limits  
the kind of stuff you can do because the number of colors you can  
print is usually very limited, and printing on black t-shirts might  
not be possible. But if done properly it can last as long as the  
fabric itself.

It looks like spreadshirts do not offer this kind of print but other  
vendors might. Anyway, don’t get too bothered about my comments. I  
would probably try to get my shirt printed here if I wanted one. As  
expensive as it gets to print only single shirt it would still be  
probably cheaper than the cost of the shirt plus shipping.

Thanks

Michal