Having O'Reilly on board the Rails (Loud Thinking)
Link: Having O'Reilly on board the Rails (Loud Thinking).
Add to that, Tim O'Reilly himself picked up on another Rails philosophy the other day with Frameworks are Extractions:
For example, basecamp wasn't built on top of Ruby on Rails. Rather, Ruby on Rails was extracted from basecamp. This approach seems obvious and commonsense — but hardly common in this era of heavy web services standards-ware designed by technical committees far in advance of actual implementation.
My emphasis in italics....