Famous Rubyists
Chad Fowler
VP Engineering at @LivingSocial, author, technologist, consultant, speaker, teacher, musician, organizer330,112 followers | Follow
Thomas Fuchs
Currently hacking on charmhq.com & letsfreckle.com and open source projects zeptojs.com & microjs.com. All-around JavaScript Guru.13,420 followers | Follow
Ilya Grigorik
Googler by day (Google Analytics); Rubyist, entrepreneur, blogger, and an open-source evangelist by night.9,458 followers | Follow
Engine Yard
Get up and running on Engine Yard. Follow @eycloud for Engine Yard Cloud updates. To file a support ticket ey.io/oJX9Zn.8,096 followers | Follow
Peter Cooper
Programming-related publisher, author and experimenter. Run @RubyInside, @CooperPress and curate Ruby & JavaScript Weekly. Co-chair of O'Reilly's @fluentconf.8,027 followers | Follow
Geoffrey Grosenbach
Independent publisher of PeepCode Screencasts http://peepcode.com7,893 followers | Follow
Scott Chacon
Classy Gentleman GitHubber, open source developer, Git evangelist, writer, world traveler, father, husband, cat rescuer, baby signer and gorilla tamer.7,785 followers | Follow
Gregg Pollack
6,671 followers | Follow
Tobias Lütke
Shopify CEO by day, beginner Dad in the evening, hacker at night. - Rails Core alumni; Author of ActiveMerchant, Liquid, Delayed::Job.5,883 followers | Follow
risk _danger_ olson
Relax, sweetheart. Tomorrow morning's hangover will be my own personal apocalypse.5,756 followers | Follow
Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Extroverted mad scientist recluse. Hacker of all things. Serial entrepreneur. Built clouds and PaaS's & booted more ec2 instances then you (4 any value of you)5,332 followers | Follow
Jamis Buck
Hectically eclectic. Wood-carving, string-figuring, programming, guitar, cooking, writing... Email me at jamis@37signals.com.5,313 followers | Follow
Chris Matthieu
Knight ★ Ham (N7ICE) ★ Ruby/NodeJS developer ★ startup junkie (@GetVocal, @Numly, @Nodester) ★ telecom geek ★ healthcare guru ♥ @Spadoll @Tropo @PhonoSDK4,512 followers | Follow
Nick Quaranto
Programmer at 37signals, Husband to @aquaranto, Husky wrangler, RIT Alum, http://rubygems.org Mechanic. Supposedly, I coined 'failwhale' too.4,511 followers | Follow
Brian Marick
Mostly a Ruby and Clojure programmer these days, with occasional consulting on Agile, leaning toward XP.4,281 followers | Follow
Matt Aimonetti
R&D Engineer at LivingSocial - Former Sony PlayStation developer.4,120 followers | Follow
Satish Talim
Founder RubyLearning.org, Ruby Evangelist, Director JoshSoftware and Maybole Technologies, Author, Trainer.4,114 followers | Follow
Evan Phoenix
3,674 followers | Follow
Steve Klabnik
Ruby, anarchism, #critcode. I hack on @hacketyhack, teach with @jumpstartlab, and read as much as I possibly can.3,616 followers | Follow
Jason Seifer
Treehouse. The Ruby Show. The JavaScript Show. Geek Friday. Look how cool I am I have so many shows. App: http://schedulingapp.com.3,544 followers | Follow
David A. Black
I'm a teacher, writer, programmer, cellist, speaker, traveller, event planner, and couch potato. I'm from CT and now live in NJ.3,284 followers | Follow
James Edward Gray II
Rubyist, Husband, Father, Atheist, Oklahoman, and all around weird guy.2,950 followers | Follow
Jeremy McAnally
Arcturo (@arcturo) founder, person who writes, Christian, dude...2,755 followers | Follow
Antonio Cangiano
Software #Developer and Technical Evangelist at IBM, Internet #Marketing Strategist, Author, Serial #Blogger, Web #Entrepreneur, and #Startup lover.2,727 followers | Follow
Blake Mizerany
Engineer at @heroku. Here are my things http://github.com/bmizerany2,055 followers | Follow
Marc-André Cournoyer
A very friendly {code,life} hacker making a living selling his stuff online.1,961 followers | Follow
Sven Fuchs
1,935 followers | Follow
Bruce Williams
Developer/Designer in Portland, OR, Pragmatic Bookshelf Author. Works at @LivingSocial.1,928 followers | Follow
Michael D. Ivey
“Dude, Utah is really weird looking.” Related: producer (Always take advice from @Maestro)1,925 followers | Follow
Wen-Tien Chang
CTO Passionbean. Software craftsman interested in Ruby, JRuby, Rails, JavaScript, Scala, Play 2.0, Obj-C, iOS, Titanium Mobile, Smalltalk, Erlang.1,924 followers | Follow
Mike Perham
Rubyist, motorcycle racer, cheapskate. Open source developer and enthusiast. Director of Engineering at TheClymb.com1,903 followers | Follow
Aaron Quint
CTO of Paperless Post, Open Source Developer (JS,Ruby,etc), SF-NYC, Amateur Charcutier1,894 followers | Follow
Anthony Eden
Programmer, Rubyist, Surfer, Father. I am DNSimple, chi.mp, PillowTalkr.1,854 followers | Follow
Mike Clark
Programmer, wildlife photographer, wanderlust, and founder of The Pragmatic Studio1,837 followers | Follow
Josh Nichols
A hacker, a geek, an all around jolly fellow. Engineer at Rails Machine.1,767 followers | Follow
Dave Astels
Curmudgeoclast & software architect. Aspiring gourmet and bon vivant.1,703 followers | Follow
Laurent Sansonetti
Belgian software hacker, husband, dad and cat wrangler. Founder of @HipByte. Creator and lead developer of @MacRuby. Ex-Apple employee (7 years).1,701 followers | Follow
Err the Blog
1,694 followers | Follow
Eric Hodel
1,631 followers | Follow
Jesse Newland
Ops Badass @github. Probably out taking a sunset picture and posting it to Instagram while eating some crazy vegan thing.1,552 followers | Follow
SoftMind Technology
An Unblinking Eye, On Ruby, Rails, Asp.Net MVC, IronRuby and Recent Trends in Web Technology. Fun, Music, News Etc..1,498 followers | Follow
Nick Plante
Ruby developer, Rumble organizer, creative industry interloper. Closer to Marc Spector than Bruce Wayne. I create and develop web startups. And eat burritos.1,475 followers | Follow
Michael Bleigh
Fellow at @intridea, co-founder of @opperatorapp and purveyor of fine open source software for the web.1,425 followers | Follow
Damien C. Tanner
Web technologist. Immersed in the world of realtime with @pusher (co-founder). Also co-founded @pandastream and @newbamboo1,347 followers | Follow
Jade Meskill
Phoenix entrepreneur, CEO of Integrum, cofounder of Gangplank, innovator, leader, team builder, family man, and all-around nice guy1,263 followers | Follow
Brian Dainton
Founder and Director of Product at @massrelevance. Ruby developer, entrepreneur, husband, father.1,226 followers | Follow
Lindsay Holmwood
sysadmin/developer/toolsmith/engineering manager, living just outside Sydney, Australia1,164 followers | Follow
Jay Phillips
Technologist. Vegan. Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethicist. Ruby, Rails & JavaScript Engineer.1,130 followers | Follow
Peat Bakke
Science lover, entrepreneurial software developer, consultant, public speaker, cyclist, and photographer.1,093 followers | Follow
Yukihiro Matz [en]
BETA! The tweets of Yukihiro Matz (http://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz), the creator of ruby, translated to English.1,078 followers | Follow
Luke Francl
Hacker and cyclist. Recovering startup founder. ⅓ of @minnebar. I mostly tweet nerdy stuff and sometimes photos I took. Blog: http://recursion.org1,062 followers | Follow
Craig R Webster
Rubyist, rock climber, geek, snow boarder, fencer, photographer, Londoner. @_millymoo's bloke.989 followers | Follow
Noel Rappin
Noel Rappin is a Senior Engineer at Groupon. He is the author of Rails Test Prescriptions, available from the Pragmatic Press.969 followers | Follow
Sidu Ponnappa
Founder/CEO and hacker at C42 Engineering. Former ThoughtWorker. We're India's premier Ruby and Rails consultancy & the folks behind http://rubymonk.com.934 followers | Follow
Jeff Cohen
Chief Instructor at Code Academy. Ruby software engineer. Author of Rails for .NET Developers. Hockey fanatic. Musician. Founder of Purple Workshops.886 followers | Follow
Joseph Wilk
Problem solver and speaker http://lanyrd.com/people/josephwilk/sessions/885 followers | Follow
John Trupiano
Technology entrepreneur who's mostly just kicking it these days. I tweet a mixed stream of incoherence and inside jokes.862 followers | Follow
Amanda Morin
Education & parenting writer. Harried mother of 3, ages toddler to teen, one w/Asperger's. Former Education Expert for About.com; writer for Circle of Moms.858 followers | Follow
Thibaut Barrère
I'm bootstrapping WiseCash and I'm available for short term ruby/rails/datamunging consulting. Get in touch! thibaut.barrere@gmail.com807 followers | Follow
Alex Chaffee
Coder, coach, cofounder. Co-created Cohuman, Pivotal Tracker, Wrong, Erector, Moodlog, and more. Agile coder. Ruby lover. A dog's best friend.721 followers | Follow
Michael Kohl
Your friendly neighborhood anarchist. I hack (on) stuff for a living. Involved in http://rubylearning.org and running http://happynerds.net.682 followers | Follow
Chris Strom
Author of @dart4hipsters and @spdybook. Co-author (w/ @ngauthier) of @backbonerecipes. B'more on Rails Organizer. Big into chains.649 followers | Follow
Bob Martens
I'm a Christian, a husband to @Martenslr, the father of two little boys, and a developer.634 followers | Follow
Harold Giménez
Venezuelan hacker, a data/postgres herokai - we don't forget. In love with his wife, music and burgers.630 followers | Follow
Chris Chandler
Force of nature and infrastructural engineer @Square. I make datacenters do magic.578 followers | Follow
Jonathan Conway
Technologist, entrepreneur and comedian. Interested in Ruby, Node.js and company culture. Find me at a madebymany.com572 followers | Follow
Marshall Huss
Lead iOS Developer at @fastcustomer, Rubyist, homebrewer, new dad555 followers | Follow
Chris O'Sullivan
I'm pretty much all about the booze. Oh and programming. But mainly booze.546 followers | Follow
Vamsee Kanakala
I'm a web developer. Believe in open source. Code Rails for a living. Love Javascript. Can grok Lisp, Erlang. Fiddling with Android dev.531 followers | Follow
Bruce Scharlau
Helping computing science students help companies build better businesses at University of Aberdeen517 followers | Follow
Cyril Mougel
Ruby developer lover of MongoDB/Redis/Ruby \o/ CTO at bemyboat.com Co-founder and CTO at supermarmite.com485 followers | Follow
Gautam Rege
Rubyist, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and Director at www.joshsoftware.com442 followers | Follow
Marcus Derencius
Into Ruby, Rails, Databases, Surf, Snowboard, Açaí, Photography, Self Healing, Backpacking and Music.433 followers | Follow
Fabio Cevasco
Technical Writer, Open Source Advocate, Programmer, Blogger, Sci-fi Fanatic, Technology Enthusiast.361 followers | Follow
Ryan Stenhouse
Rubyist, Writer, Linguist, Engineer and @colon_three's fella. Tweets are in a personal capacity and consumed at your own risk.337 followers | Follow
Joe Ferris
319 followers | Follow
hal_fulton
Programmer, author, bookworm, music lover, space freak, theatre junkie, photographer, playwright277 followers | Follow
Javier Cicchelli
CTO & Founder of @rockncode. Up to 11 in OSX/iOS, Node.js, Ruby projects that shake the foundations.273 followers | Follow
Claudio Poli
icoretech / audiobox.fm / advise.me / box.es / chirpr. Developer. Perfectionist. Music and Tech junkie. Probably I'll never work for you, but ask kindly.263 followers | Follow
Christian Guimarães
I'm a learn-aholic. Professional Software Developer. Ruby, Java, Lisp and Clojure addict. Code quality activist. Also math lover.258 followers | Follow
Ole Morten Amundsen
Independent contractor and entrepreneur. Agile/lean software development, ruby, rails, java, everything and nothing256 followers | Follow
Matthew Lang
Hubbie to @jenjenlang, superdad, #mountainbiker and #fixie fan. Software developer by trade with a preference for #ruby (http://mattoncode.com).252 followers | Follow
Josh Software
Working with Rails has been a passion and a pleasure. We have been working in different areas related to Rails - Edge Rails, Rails3, Facebook Applications.53 followers | Follow
Ashutosh Ambekar
18 followers | Follow
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The best people to follow for Ruby and Rails
