FiveRuns became one of the most prominent brands in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem over the last few years; a frequent sponsor of conferences and the source of a number of Rails-focused products and open source projects… but within months of going into beta with their latest product, Dash, a cascading set of EOLs were announced: the TuneUp server, Manage, and then, finally and inexplicably, the recently released Dash. Then FiveRuns itself was gone — acquired by Workthink, about which no one knew the faintest.

That’s how it looked from the outside, at least.

FiveRuns announced last week that they would be ceasing the Manage service from 25th August. We have partnered with FiveRuns since December 2007 to bundle the Manage service with Brightbox products so we were sad to learn of its end-of-life.

The material for the talk is fairly similar to the Lone Star 1.9 talk I did a few days prior, but re-tooled for a smaller group.

Thanks to my employer, FiveRuns, for bankrolling the trip, and to the guys out at Thoughtbot and the Boston.rb group for their hospitality.