One of the things I love about the Ruby community is that it truly embraces change. Rubyists (and particularly Rails hackers) jumped on git, and since GitHub was built by our own, it was supported heavily by Rubyists. Engine Yard gave them free hosting for a long time, we blogged and told all of our friends, and like any social network, it just grew from there.
Check out Tom's story about it: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
One of the things I love about the Ruby community is that it truly embraces change. Rubyists (and particularly Rails hackers) jumped on git, and since GitHub was built by our own, it was supported heavily by Rubyists. Engine Yard gave them free hosting for a long time, we blogged and told all of our friends, and like any social network, it just grew from there.
It also helps that it's an awesome service.