# Ruby on Crack **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549 "2008-04-01T16:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/1 "2008-04-01T16:37:17Z")
After several months of keeping it under wraps, I’m happy to officially announce my own web framework to the world. It’s called Ruby on Crack and will be released by RailsConf 2008. The name of the framework was chosen because I wanted to push the idea of a complete break from the existing Ruby frameworks, a clear cut, if you will. You can read more about my announcement here: > **[Announcing Ruby on Crack | Programming Zen](https://programmingzen.com/announcing-ruby-on-crack/)** > > After several months of keeping it under wraps, I’m happy to officially announce my own web framework to the world. It’s called Ruby on Crack and will be released by RailsConf 2008. The name of the framework was chosen because I wanted to push the... Cheers, Antonio ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/2 "2008-04-01T16:48:49Z")
Antonio C. wrote: > After several months of keeping it under wraps, I’m happy to > officially announce my own web framework to the world. It’s called > Ruby on Crack and will be released by RailsConf 2008. The name of the > framework was chosen because I wanted to push the idea of a complete > break from the existing Ruby frameworks, a clear cut, if you will. > > You can read more about my announcement here: > [Announcing Ruby on Crack | Programming Zen](http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/01/announcing-ruby-on-crack/) > > Cheers, > Antonio Yeah, April fool joke 😃 It is really nice. I like the testimonial 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/3 "2008-04-01T17:15:59Z")
Antonio C. wrote: > ## Antonio > > [http://stacktrace.it](http://stacktrace.it) - Aperiodico di resistenza informatica. > [http://antoniocangiano.com](http://antoniocangiano.com) - Zen and the Art of Programming > [http://math-blog.com](http://math-blog.com) - Math Blog: Mathematics is wonderful! > Booo, i hate aprils fools now \>\< ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/4 "2008-04-01T17:24:54Z")
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Shin guey Wong [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > ## Yeah, April fool joke 😃 It is really nice. I like the testimonial 🙂 > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). Hey that is great a new release every year? 😉 Well done, what I liked most were the comments. Robert – [http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/](http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/) * * * Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/5 "2008-04-01T18:05:01Z")
Hi, In message “Re: [ANN] Ruby on Crack” on Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:15:09 +0900, David Steiner #nospam#removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid writes: |\> You can read more about my announcement here: |\> [Announcing Ruby on Crack | Programming Zen](http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/01/announcing-ruby-on-crack/) |Booo, i hate aprils fools now \>\< Can you imagine how I feel when I see _my quote_ in the middle of fascinating announcement. Parrot one in 2001 was the first. ``` matz. ``` ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/6 "2008-04-02T01:32:27Z")
On Apr 1, 10:34 am, Antonio C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > After several months of keeping it under wraps, I’m happy to > officially announce my own web framework to the world. It’s called > Ruby on Crack and will be released by RailsConf 2008. The name of the > framework was chosen because I wanted to push the idea of a complete > break from the existing Ruby frameworks, a clear cut, if you will. > > You can read more about my announcement here:[Announcing Ruby on Crack | Programming Zen](http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/01/announcing-ruby-on-crack/) > > Cheers, > Antonio “Part of the speed boost that Crack can give you, is due the highly efficient, thread-safe and powerful ORM called Freebase.” Nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@visitor1981](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/visitor1981)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-crack/133549/7 "2008-04-02T01:33:38Z")
On Apr 1, 7:25 pm, Brian A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > “Part of the speed boost that Crack can give you, is due the highly > efficient, thread-safe and powerful ORM called Freebase.” > > Nice 🙂 Oh man, I just got down to the “testimonials” - actually laughed out loud on a couple - very nice 🙂