--- title: "Ruby turns 30" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 643 published_at: "2023-03-02" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/643" --- Plus bye to Ruby 2.7, DHH gets into the container shipping business, and a lot of mruby stuff. | #​643 — March 2, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/643) Together with [![pgAnalyze\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_350,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/lhwcvgc1asd4fzaahty4.png)](https://pganalyze.com/ebooks/advanced-database-programming-rails-postgres?utm_source=RubyWeeklyPrimary03022023) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/mwygmy9skhlj0yqn3izz.jpg)](https://mametter.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/02/25/232514) [Ruby Turns 30 Years Old; Celebrate with a Quine!](https://mametter.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/02/25/232514) — Thirty years ago [in a chat room](https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-talk/88819) _far, far away_, the name ‘Ruby’ came into being for Matz’s then-nascent language. This milestone has been celebrated by many including [Matt Sears](https://mattsears.com/articles/2023/02/28/happy-birthday-ruby/), [DHH](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1629368799387320321), [Charles Nutter](https://twitter.com/headius/status/1628978786686365696), in a (Japanese) [▶️ audio message by Matz himself](https://voicy.jp/channel/2940/482806), and [many](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ruby30th?src=hashtag_click) [others](https://ruby.social/tags/ruby30th), but I had to feature this amazing effort to create a quine, of sorts, that works on _“all currently known CRubys”_ (right back to Ruby 0.49!). It’s worth hitting _“Translate to English”_ on this page to learn a few things about Ruby’s history. ku-ma-me In his [▶️ audio message,](https://voicy.jp/channel/2940/482806) Matz acknowledges there are multiple ways you could define Ruby's birthday, but he's happy to go with the date it was _named_ in this case. 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