# Sam Ruby > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sam_Ruby > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sam_Ruby.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ruby > Source revision: 1341127852 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American computer scientist Sam Ruby Education Christopher Newport University (BA) Occupation software developer Known for Atom, Apache **Sam Ruby** is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to web standards and [open source software](/source/Open_source_software) projects. In particular he has contributed to the standardization of syndicated web feeds via his involvement with the [Atom](/source/Atom_(standard)) standard and the Feed Validator web service. He currently holds the position of [Rails](/source/Ruby_on_Rails) Specialist at [Fly.io](https://Fly.io).[1] He resides in [Raleigh](/source/Raleigh%2C_North_Carolina), [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina).[2] ## Background Sam Ruby received a B.A. in mathematics from [Christopher Newport University](/source/Christopher_Newport_University), [Newport News](/source/Newport_News%2C_Virginia), [Virginia](/source/Virginia). Ruby was hired immediately out of college by [IBM](/source/IBM) and has worked there since. ### Apache Project Ruby is a former board member of the [Apache Software Foundation](/source/Apache_Software_Foundation).[3] He formerly served as president; Assistant Secretary; Director, Vice President of Legal Affairs; and was the former Chair of the [Apache Jakarta Project](/source/Jakarta_Project). He also actively contributes to numerous Apache projects. Notably, he was one of the early [Ant](/source/Apache_Ant) contributors, as well as being the creator of Gump. ### Feed Validator Ruby is the principal maintainer of the Feed [validator](/source/Validator), which he developed along with [Mark Pilgrim](/source/Mark_Pilgrim_(software_developer)).[4] It's able to validate [Atom](/source/Atom_(standard)) feeds as well as [RSS](/source/RSS_(file_format)) 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 feeds. ### PHP Ruby also contributed to [PHP](/source/PHP), in particular to the Java Extension.[5] ### Ruby Sam Ruby has done development in the [Ruby](/source/Ruby_(programming_language)) 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](/source/Atom_(standard))/[RSS](/source/RSS) [feed aggregator](/source/Feed_aggregator), the codebase that began as a radical refactoring of the [Planet 2.0](/source/Planet_(software)) feed aggregator in 2006.[6] ### html5lib Ruby is a developer member of the html5lib project, with his primary contribution being the initial port of html5lib to the [Ruby](/source/Ruby_(programming_language)) programming language. ## Standardization efforts Ruby has been active within various [standards development organizations](/source/Standards_Development_Organization). ### ECMA standardization of the .NET Framework CLI Ruby was the convener of the [ECMA](/source/Ecma_International) TC49 group that standardized the [Common Language Infrastructure](/source/Common_Language_Infrastructure) for [Microsoft](/source/Microsoft)'s [.NET Framework](/source/.NET_Framework).[7][8] ### Atom The project which eventually became the [Atom](/source/Atom_(standard)) 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.[9] Sam Ruby was the secretary of the [IETF](/source/IETF) AtomPub working group. This working group completed RFC 4287, the 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](/source/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](/source/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.[10] ## Bibliography - *Agile Web Development with Rails 5* (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2016) (with [Dave Thomas](/source/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)) and [David Heinemeier Hansson](/source/David_Heinemeier_Hansson)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-68050-171-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-68050-171-1) - *Agile Web Development with Rails 4* (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013) (with [Dave Thomas](/source/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)) and [David Heinemeier Hansson](/source/David_Heinemeier_Hansson)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-937-78556-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-937-78556-4) - *RESTful Web APIs* (O'Reilly Publishing, 2013) (with [Leonard Richardson](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonard_Richardson_(video_game_developer)&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Mike Amundsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Amundsen&action=edit&redlink=1)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-449-35806-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-449-35806-3) - *Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2* (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011) (with [Dave Thomas](/source/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)) and [David Heinemeier Hansson](/source/David_Heinemeier_Hansson)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-934-35654-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-934-35654-9) - *Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition* (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009) (with [Dave Thomas](/source/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)) and [David Heinemeier Hansson](/source/David_Heinemeier_Hansson)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-934-35616-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-934-35616-6) - *RESTful Web Services* (O'Reilly Publishing, 2007) (with [Leonard Richardson](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonard_Richardson_(video_game_developer)&action=edit&redlink=1)) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-596-52926-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-596-52926-0) ## See also - [Apache Software Foundation](/source/Apache_Software_Foundation) - [Atom (standard)](/source/Atom_(standard)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Unretiring"](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2022/08/13/Unretiring). *intertwingly.net*. Retrieved 2024-06-09. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Biography: Ruby, Sam"](https://web.archive.org/web/20061218023728/http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html) on 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2006-02-24. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Announcing New ASF Board of Directors"](https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/announcing-new-asf-board-of4). apache.org. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-11. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Anthony III (2008). *Ajax: The Definitive Guide*. O'Reilly Media. p. 617. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780596554972](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780596554972). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Credits"](http://www.php.net/credits.php). PHP. Retrieved 2009-09-30. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Venus Rising](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/08/16/Venus-Rising) intertwingly.net, 2006. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Standard ECMA-335"](http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm). Ecma-international.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30. ("TC39" seems like a typo, see next ref) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [https://www.ecma-international.org/about-ecma/areas-of-work/](https://www.ecma-international.org/about-ecma/areas-of-work/) TC49 takes care of C#, CLI, Eiffel 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["ongoing · I Like Pie"](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie). Tbray.org. 2003-06-23. Retrieved 2009-09-30. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Sam Ruby appointed co-chair for HTML Working Group, effective January 5 from Michael Smith on 2008-12-15 (public-html@w3.org from December 2008)"](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Dec/0145.html). Lists.w3.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30. ### Sources - *[Web services visionary](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-samruby.html)* - an interview with Sam Ruby (IBM developerworks) - *[Sam Ruby on the O'Reilly Network](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/242)* - *[SamRuby page on Atom Wiki](http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/SamRuby)* - accessed February 22, 2006. - *[Biography: Sam Ruby](https://web.archive.org/web/20061218023728/http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xml03/html/bio/b14640ed01752d0e33acef8f44.html)* - from XML Conference and Expo 2003. ## External links - [Intertwingly](http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/) - Sam Ruby's [weblog](/source/Weblog) (the name is a reference to [Ted Nelson](/source/Ted_Nelson)'s [coinage](/source/Neologism) "[intertwingularity](/source/Intertwingularity)"). - [Feed Validator](http://feedvalidator.org/) - Sam Ruby's feed validator for Atom and RSS. 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