For comparison, (according to `find . -name "*.rb" | xargs wc -l`) Rails back then was about 66K LOC (plus 38K LOC of tests) and is now 137K LOC (plus 216K LOC of tests).
However, Steve says he only ported "essentially all of ActionView, ActionController and Railties, plus a teeny bit of ActiveRecord", so maybe half of the total.
For comparison, (according to `find . -name "*.rb" | xargs wc -l`) Rails back then was about 66K LOC (plus 38K LOC of tests) and is now 137K LOC (plus 216K LOC of tests).
However, Steve says he only ported "essentially all of ActionView, ActionController and Railties, plus a teeny bit of ActiveRecord", so maybe half of the total.