The response to an earlier post “Famous Ruby Personalities: Who do you recommend?” was very encouraging and many wrote in asking for the Twitter profiles of these Famous Ruby Personalities and other Ruby developers and bloggers.
But What’s Twitter?
The New York Times says:
Twitter is a simple messaging service that you’ve either heard about a lot or not at all. Either way, it’s a fun and useful tool, well worth trying if you want to reach potential and existing customers, employees or employers.
Rubyists’ List
Victor Goff, Jerry Anning and Willian Molinari of RubyLearning along with Gaveen and Josh Nichols (both Twitter contacts) have painstakingly compiled this list of over 50 Rubyists, in alphabetical order, with a link to their Twitter profile. The following list is not intended to be all-inclusive, but it should give you a great start to following some talented Rubyists.
Note: There are many Rubyists who either are not using Twitter or are keeping their updates private. 
- Amanda Morin - AmandaMorin
- Brian Marick - marick
- Bruce Williams - wbruce
- Chad Fowler - chadfowler
- Charles Nutter - headius
- Chris Matthieu - chrismatthieu
- Chris O’Sullivan - thechrisoshow
- Chris Wanstrath - defunkt
- Christian Guimaraes - csgui
- Dave Thomas - pragdave
- David A Black - david_a_black
- David Heinemeier Hansson - d2h
- Dr Nic Williams - drnic
- Eric Hodel - drbrain
- Evan Phoenix - evanphx
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz - ezmobius
- Fabio Akita - AkitaOnRails
- Fabio Cevasco - h3rald
- Geoffrey Grosenbach - topfunky
- Giles Bowkett - gilesgoatboy
- Graeme Mathieson - mathie
- Gregg Pollack - greggpollack
- Ian Dees - undees
- Ilya Grigorik - igrigorik
- Jamie van Dyke - fearoffish
- Jamis Buck - jamis
- Jason Fried - jasonfried
- Jason Seifer - jseifer
- Jay Fields - jaycfields
- Jay Phillips - jicksta
- Jeff Cohen - jeffcohen
- Jeremy Kemper - bitsweat
- Jeremy McAnally - jeremymcanally
- Jim Weirich - jimweirich
- John Lam - john_lam
- Jonathan Conway - noodlesinmysand
- Luis Lavena - luislavena
- Lyle Johnson - lylejohnson
- Mark McGranaghan - mmcgrana
- Michael Morin - UziMonkey
- Mislav Marohnic - mislav
- Obie Fernandez - obie
- Ola Bini - olabini
- Peter Cooper - peterc
- Peat Bakke - peat
- Renaud Morvan - neleanth
- Rich Kilmer - rich_kilmer
- Ryan Bates - rbates
- Stuart Halloway - stuarthalloway
- Tobias Lütke - tobi
- Thibaut Barrere - thibaut_barrere
- why the lucky stiff - _why
- Yehuda Katz - wycats
Update: Keep the feedback coming in. We are updating the list based on your recommendations.
- Adam Keys - therealadam
- Amy Hoy - amyhoy
- Anil Wadghule - anildigital
- Anthony Eden - aeden
- Antonio Cangiano - acangiano
- Brian Dainton - bdainton
- Chad Pytel - cpytel
- Collin T Miller - collintmiller
- Courtenay Gasking - court3nay
- Desi Mcadam - desi
- Eldon Alameda - ealameda
- Emilio Tagua - miloops
- Eric Falcao - efalcao
- Err the Blog - err
- Ian Warshak - iwarshak
- James Golick - jamesgolick
- Jesse Newland - jnewland
- Joe O’Brien - objo
- Joe Ferris - joeferris
- Jon Yurek - jyurek
- Laurent Sansonetti - lrz
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis
- Luke Francl - lof
- Manik Juneja - mjuneja
- Marc-André Cournoyer - macournoyer
- Michael Bleigh - mbleigh
- Michael Ivey - ivey
- Mike Perham - mperham
- Nick Quaranto - qrush
- PJ Hyett - pjhyett
- Pratik Naik - lifo
- Rick - technoweenie
- Rick DeNatale - RubyRedRick
- Sau Sheong Chang - sausheong
- Scott Chacon - chacon
- Steve Sanderson - stevesanderson
- Sur - sur
- Tim Bray - timbray
- Tom Preston-Werner - mojombo
- Vamsee Kanakala - vamsee
The following list is thanks to Peter Cooper and Amanda - Not “Rubyists” per-se, but should still be of interest:
- Engine Yard - engineyard
- FiveRuns - fiveruns
- MorphLabs - MorphLabs
- Rails - rails
- Rails Link Library - rails_bookmarks
- Ruby Commit - rubyci
- RubyFlow - rubyflow
- RubyInside - RubyInside
- RubyLearning - RubyLearning
Have we missed out any Rubyists?
You can help. Please feel free to add a link to a Rubyist’s Twitter profile. We would love to hear why you think the particular Rubyist is important to Twitter with. Also, do add a link to your Twitter profile in the comments.
Technorati Tags: Ruby, Rubyists, Ruby Beginners, Ruby Masters, The Ruby Programming Language, Twitter
Posted by Satish Talim
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AmyHoy, court3nay, err, technoweenie, timbray
For DHH, your link is correct (d2h), but the link text says ‘DHH’.
Dr Nic - Thanks for pointing that out - now corrected.
ivey == Michael Ivey
_evan == Evan Weaver, not Evan Phoenix
evanphx == Evan Phoenix
Evan Phoenix - Thanks Evan for pointing that out - now corrected.
jon yurek (paperclip)
joe ferris (factory girl)
I like Jason Fried, but he’s not really known for being a Ruby personality.
For the 2nd list, you can get the numbers starting at 54. with:
<ol start="54">Neat, I think.
Some suggestions:
* Marc-Andre Cournoyer - http://twitter.com/macournoyer (of Thin fame)
* GitHub Guys - http://twitter.com/chacon (mojombo and defunkt are already there)
* Sur - http://twitter.com/sur (Aug 07 Rails Hackfest Winner)
mattetti = Matt Aimonetti
mojombo = Tom Preston-Werner
pjhyett = PJ Hyett
lrz = Laurent Sansonetti
collintmiller = Collin T Miller
auxesis = Lindsay Holmwood
macournoyer = Marc-Andre Cournoyer
jamesgolick = James Golick
john_lam = John Lam
aeden = Anthony Eden
lof = Luke Francl
jnewland = Jesse Newland
Too many more to mention… if you can stand any more traffic, definitely make sure you see their replies to people you’re not following… you can see interesting conversations from interesting people that way too.
Thanks for mentioning me, that was flattering!
I think you missed out a big one though: Antonio Cangiano (acangiano), of “Zen and The Art of Programming” (http://antoniocangiano.com/)
A few more:
Basic Ruby sites:
Jruby
RubyInside
Rails
EngineYard
Rubyci (Ruby Commit)
People:
Michael Bleigh
Eldon Alameda
Æ!!
I tried to help with some usernames too! =)
Thanks for the useful post! =)
Cheers,
Willlian Molinari
Satish, thanks for the recognition…
this make me work harder, even more. Stay in touch. News soon.
Christian.
Christian Guimaraes you are right. There were so many twitters today from Ruby Masters, mentioning a quick rise in the number of their followers. In a lighter vein, we need to avoid talking about drinks and profanity - there are so many people observing us now!
miloops = Emilio Tagua
http://www.google.com/search?q=miloops+ruby+rails
Satish,
I’d recommend Joe O’Brien (objo)
Oooh.. a popularity contest. The ruby/rails community loves these.
You should be TATFT rather than following folks on twitter…
Not “Rubyists” per-se, but should still be of interest:
http://twitter.com/rubyinside
http://twitter.com/rubyflow
Dr Nic - The <ol start= > is deprecated and I have not used the same. One way to do that would be this way - http://www.arraystudio.com/as-workshop/make-ol-list-start-from-number-different-than-1-using-css.html
Pratik - lifo
He is a Ruby On Rails core team member.
http://twitter.com/rails_bookmarks is a great rails link resource bases on http://labuschin.com/rails