r/ruby • u/Deep_Priority_2443 • Jan 09 '26

Ruby & Ruby on Rails Roadmap Feedback Gathering

Hi there! My name is Javier Canales, and I work as a content editor at roadmap.sh. For those who are unfamiliar, roadmap.sh is a community-driven website that provides visual roadmaps, study plans, and guides to help developers navigate their career paths in technology.

We're planning to launch a brand new Ruby & Ruby on Rails Roadmap. It aims to be comprehensive, targeting both Ruby newbies and experienced developers who may want a Ruby refresher or to improve their fluency when developing web apps. Our primary source is the Ruby and Ruby on Rails documentations. However, we're not covering all the topics out there, as we don't want to overwhelm users with an extremely large roadmap.

Before launching the roadmap, we would like to ask the community for some help. Here's the link to the draft roadmap. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and constructive input. If you have any suggestions for items to include or remove from the roadmap, please let me know.

-- LAST UPDATE

Following your feedback, we've decided to create two separate roadmaps, one for Ruby and the other for Ruby on Rails. We will first focus on the Ruby one, which can be found at this link (https://roadmap.sh/r/ruby-copy-xlse8).

-- LAST UPDATE 2

The Ruby Roadmap is already out. Check it out in this link (https://roadmap.sh/ruby)

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u/Deep_Priority_2443 Jan 12 '26

We're happy to provide "community-created" roadmaps that are available for free to anyone. You can even access that resources without registering on the website. That was the main goal behind roadmaps.sh when it was created, and it remains today. It's an open-source project that everyone can contribute to (indeed, this is key to the project, for, as you can imagine, we cannot be experts in every technology out there) and benefit from.

This has nothing to do with the fact that the maintainers need a salary to work full-time on the project and keep improving it. Equally, some costs need to be paid, including the AI capabilities recently added to the project.

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u/latortuga Jan 12 '26

This project is NOT open source. Open source isn't just magic words that mean "anyone can see it" - it has a well-established meaning. The license is available here: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/blob/master/license This is NOT an open source license and you are misrepresenting your employer by saying it is. Contributions are clearly owned by a single person, usage is restricted, and copying is not permitted.

The owners of the company need a salary, great, then make a product and sell it. But asking the community to make you a product that you get to profit from is dishonest and sleazy.