Ruby on Ramen?

teilo 15 years ago |

It claims that part of the proceeds from the sale of the noodles will be used to promote and develop the Ruby programming language. Truth or a stunt?

byoung2 15 years ago | |

Literally ramen profitable?

bombs 15 years ago | | |

No, profitable ramen.

nandemo 15 years ago | |

It's true:

http://www.ruby-assn.org/ja/index.htm

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

Matsue Ramen is from Matsue city, where Matz lives.

hartror 15 years ago | |

I love the japanese.

Groxx 15 years ago | |

It can't be both?

mdwrigh2 15 years ago | | |

He said 'truth or stunt?' not 'truth xor stunt?'!

tkahnoski 15 years ago | | |

I have never actually paid attention to how different logical 'or' and english 'or' is. This strikes me as a trivial example of why legalese is so hard to read.

kqr2 15 years ago |

Obligatory link to pg's Ramen Profitable essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

chaostheory 15 years ago |

Courtesy of Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

c1sc0 15 years ago |

I could see this take off in the startup community, just order a 3-month supply before you start coding. If you do this right & "sell the dream" then it could work for much the same reasons those crappy nutritional supplement products work. I'm not buying though, I'm already fully supplied.

patio11 15 years ago | |

This is, apparently, fresh ramen. It has a 30 day shelf life. 3 month supplies might be a little problematic.

Groxx 15 years ago |

I'd love for this to come out in America. Everywhere I look, all I find is this junk: http://www.maruchan.com/maruchan_ramen.html

devinj 15 years ago | |

Beats this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Noodles

I had some really interesting (and expensive) ramen called sapporo ichiban, it was delicious. Then I discovered it had about the caloric content of a big mac, but without any redeeming qualities (a big mac has, for example, actual vitamin content).

astine 15 years ago | |

Maruchan is better than Top Ramen.

c4urself 15 years ago |

an attempt to tap into the ramen-eating startup market?

timinman 15 years ago |

That's Ruby community love, folks.

ramen 15 years ago |

I prefer Python.