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Old 28th April 2009
mwatkins mwatkins is offline
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Speaking of Ruby, I didn't mean to paint the language community itself with a bad brush, I really meant to identify the Rails sub-community of Ruby as a potential bad-example poster child.

While I have no personally-earned opinion on Rails and its community, it is hard not to read commentary from an insider like the following without making a note of it:

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April 28, 2009: But unfortunately for me, in parallel to the public discussion there have been private ones. I can’t reveal details without breaking confidences, but suffice it to say that a significant number of Rails core contributors - with leadership (if that’s the right word) from DHH - apparently feel that being unwelcoming and “edgy” is not just acceptable, but laudable. The difference between their opinions and mine is so severe that I cannot in good conscience remain a public spokesman for Rails.

So, effective immediately, I’m resigning my position with the Rails Activists. -- Mike Gunderloy
I didn't have to go looking for this quote, it was in my morning RSS feed.
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