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{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

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| nationality = American
| education = [[Christopher Newport University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
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'''Sam Ruby''' is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to web standards and [[open source software]] projects. In particular he has contributed to the standardization of syndicated web feeds via his involvement with the [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] standard and the Feed Validator web service.

He currently holds the position of [[Ruby on Rails|Rails]] Specialist at [https://Fly.io Fly.io].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unretiring |url=http://intertwingly.net/blog/2022/08/13/Unretiring |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=intertwingly.net}}</ref> He resides in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html |title=Biography: Ruby, Sam |accessdate=2006-02-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061218023728/http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html |archivedate=2006-12-18 }}</ref>

==Background==
Sam Ruby received a B.A. in mathematics from [[Christopher Newport University]], [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[Virginia]]. Ruby was hired immediately out of college by [[IBM]] and has worked there since.

===Apache Project===
Ruby is a former board member of the [[Apache Software Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/announcing-new-asf-board-of4 |title=Announcing New ASF Board of Directors|publisher=apache.org|date= 3 March 2022|accessdate=2022-09-11}}</ref> He formerly served as president; Assistant Secretary; Director, Vice President of Legal Affairs; and was the former Chair of the [[Jakarta Project|Apache Jakarta Project]]. He also actively contributes to numerous Apache projects. Notably, he was one of the early [[Apache Ant|Ant]] contributors, as well as being the creator of Gump.

===Feed Validator===
Ruby is the principal maintainer of the Feed [[validator]], which he developed along with [[Mark Pilgrim (software developer)|Mark Pilgrim]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anthony III |title=Ajax: The Definitive Guide |publisher=O'Reilly Media |year=2008 |isbn=9780596554972 |pages=617}}</ref> It's able to validate [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] feeds as well as [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 feeds.

===PHP===
Ruby also contributed to [[PHP]], in particular to the Java Extension.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.php.net/credits.php |title=Credits |publisher=PHP |date= |accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>

===Ruby===
Sam Ruby has done development in the [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] programming language, leading to some confusion between the person's name and the language. However, there is no formal connection—they both just coincidentally have the same name.

===Venus===
Ruby is the author of Venus, an [[Atom (standard)|Atom]]/[[RSS]] [[feed aggregator]], the codebase that began as a radical refactoring of the [[Planet (software)|Planet 2.0]] [[feed aggregator]] in 2006.<ref>[http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/08/16/Venus-Rising Venus Rising] intertwingly.net, 2006.</ref>

===html5lib===
Ruby is a developer member of the html5lib project, with his primary contribution being the initial port of html5lib to the [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] programming language.

==Standardization efforts==
Ruby has been active within various [[Standards Development Organization|standards development organizations]].

===ECMA standardization of the .NET Framework CLI===
Ruby was the convener of the [[Ecma International|ECMA]] TC49 group that standardized the [[Common Language Infrastructure]] for [[Microsoft]]'s [[.NET Framework]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm |title=Standard ECMA-335 |publisher=Ecma-international.org |date= |accessdate=2009-09-30}} ("TC39" seems like a typo, see next ref)</ref><ref>https://www.ecma-international.org/about-ecma/areas-of-work/ TC49 takes care of C#, CLI, Eiffel</ref>

===Atom===
The project which eventually became the [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] web feed standard was started by a blog posting by Sam Ruby in 2002 entitled "what makes a log entry". This blog posting eventually became a wiki project which acted as a rallying point for people looking to improve upon the frozen RSS format.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie |title=ongoing · I Like Pie |publisher=Tbray.org |date=2003-06-23 |accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref> Sam Ruby was the secretary of the [[IETF]] AtomPub working group. This working group completed RFC 4287, the [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] format specification ("The Atom Syndication Format"), in December 2005 and RFC 5023, "The Atom Publishing Protocol", in October 2007.

===ECMAScript===
Ruby is a member of the [[ECMAScript]] technical committee (ECMAScript TC39); his primary contribution to the group is in driving the effort to add Decimal support to ECMAScript.

===HTML5===
Ruby was an early adopter of [[HTML5]], and has offered a number of concrete proposals which were subsequently incorporated into the HTML5 draft. He has been appointed co-chair of the W3C's HTML Working Group from 5 January 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=//lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Dec/0145.html |title=Sam Ruby appointed co-chair for HTML Working Group, effective January 5 from Michael(tm) Smith on 2008-12-15 (public-html@w3.org from December 2008) |publisher=Lists.w3.org |date= |accessdate=2009-09-30}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''Agile Web Development with Rails 5'' (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2016) (with [[Dave Thomas (programmer)|Dave Thomas]] and [[David Heinemeier Hansson]]) {{ISBN|978-1-68050-171-1}}
*''Agile Web Development with Rails 4'' (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013) (with [[Dave Thomas (programmer)|Dave Thomas]] and [[David Heinemeier Hansson]]) {{ISBN|1-937-78556-4}}
*''RESTful Web APIs'' (O'Reilly Publishing, 2013) (with [[Leonard Richardson (video game developer)|Leonard Richardson]] and [[Mike Amundsen]]) {{ISBN|1-449-35806-3}}
*''Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2'' (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011) (with [[Dave Thomas (programmer)|Dave Thomas]] and [[David Heinemeier Hansson]]) {{ISBN|1-934-35654-9}}
*''Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition'' (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009) (with [[Dave Thomas (programmer)|Dave Thomas]] and [[David Heinemeier Hansson]]) {{ISBN|1-934-35616-6}}
*''RESTful Web Services'' (O'Reilly Publishing, 2007) (with [[Leonard Richardson (video game developer)|Leonard Richardson]]) {{ISBN|0-596-52926-0}}

==See also==
* [[Apache Software Foundation]]
* [[Atom (standard)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
{{Refbegin}}
* ''[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-samruby.html Web services visionary]'' - an interview with Sam Ruby (IBM developerworks)
* ''[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/242 Sam Ruby on the O'Reilly Network]''
* ''[http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/SamRuby SamRuby page on Atom Wiki]'' - accessed February 22, 2006.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20061218023728/http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html Biography: Sam Ruby] - from XML Conference and Expo 2003.
{{Refend}}

==External links==
* [http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/ Intertwingly] - Sam Ruby's [[weblog]] (the name is a reference to [[Ted Nelson]]'s [[neologism|coinage]] "[[intertwingularity]]").
* [http://feedvalidator.org/ Feed Validator] - Sam Ruby's feed validator for Atom and RSS.

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