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The tent is being made smaller. To stay in the tent going forward you will increasingly be forced to agree with David. I’ve been involved with Ruby for seventeen years: why am I the one being pushed out in order to make space for toxic and abusive dudes?

Silence and appeasement is only emboldening DHH to ratchet up the toxicity and allowing the damage to continue. Perhaps if enough of those in positions of power call him out on his bullshit he’ll at at least follow his own advice and keep his politics to himself. More importantly though, it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views.

Interestingly, all of the things that used to annoy me about Ruby and Rails now annoy me much, much, much less. I have accepted that there is no perfect language or framework. You just have to know its strengths and weaknesses and deal with them. Luckily, there are some really good frameworks out there for people who want to focus on building a good product. I think Rails is probably one of the best, but there are a lot of other long-lived frameworks with lots of active contributors that are probably just as good. It might still be worth it to choose a more exotic language, framework or to dive in and write your own. If only for the opportunity to learn these kinds of lessons on your own.

Yo dawg, I heard you like Ruby...

That said, if making Javascript look and act kinda like Rails makes Rails devs happier, maybe it just means I’m not Ruby enough.

"My Quines are sometimes specialized for Japanese. But to attend RubyConf, I should write "global" Quines."

"This always blows my mind. You’re married to someone, and you aren’t interested enough in the person to know anything about what they do with nearly 40-50% of their time, aside from their job title? Is it dangerous to draw a correlation between high divorce rates and the lack of interest that people have in their partners lives? It’s easy to fall in love with the “idea” of a person when you first meet them. But I think it would be hard to endure a lifetime of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and the everyday challenges that life throws at two people, if those partners didn’t have a truly vested interest in each other’s passions and life’s work. And if you don’t have even a basic understanding of what your spouse does with 40+hours of his/her week, then you’re not on a team."

"A Ruby implementation of the Weave Basic Object API"

"The Java ecosystem warps your brain into a mode of thinking where modularity patterns like DI and decoration are like ancient gods which can only be invoked with a great deal of pomp and ceremony. And I think that perspective tends to make it hard to see that other programmers use the same patterns, just with less fanfare. For an even better take on this topic than mine, read Jamis Buck’s classic account of writing and discarding two Ruby DI frameworks."

"toto is a git-powered, minimalist blog engine for the hackers of Oz. The engine weighs around ~230 sloc at its worst. There is no toto client, at least for now; everything goes through git."

"A clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution."

"RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby. At GitHub, we've tried to make the process of building and releasing new gems as simple as possible. Please see the documentation below on how to use the system."

"What will the world of dynamic programming languages and Web applications look like in five years? This is one of those highly personal and deeply philosophical questions best saved for after dessert is served, the drinks are poured, and the sidearms are safely locked away."

"Now just wait for your friends to status away using their IM client."

"Could an app like WordPress, easy for users of medium technical knowledge to run and customize, easy for developers to extend, and easy for hosts to provide, be written in Ruby? If so, how?"

"They did not plant the seeds of the next great Ruby web framework. They did not advance the Ruby community. They played a game."

"Wait 2 Moore’s Law cycles for the resulting program to run as fast as the original Ruby version, and while waiting, sing your praises to Turing."

"I’m not taking a “wait and hope” attitude like some others, hoping that someone else will fix my problems. I’m circumventing them altogether. Above all other things professional, I have a job to do and employers to report to."

"There’s been a lot of interesting discussion over the last week regarding the use of dynamic scripting languages for programming desktop applications."

"Say further that the only difference between a company running Seaside, a company running Rails, and a company running PHP is that the Seaside company has huge balls, the Rails company has some balls, and the PHP company has no balls at all."

"For fun, I've done a rewrite using Ruby, with all-new code based on the del.icio.us JSON feeds"

"Remember when everyone realized that HTTP was really good at what it did and since we already knew it, we should just use it and stop going crazy with proprietary / complex / lesser known protocols?"

"A Ruby library for creating parsers that can be used to extract microcontent from (X)HTML documents in a variety of microformats."

Hot hot hot! "It's Park Place, a clone of Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service.)"

"I was refactoring a parser and it occured to me that I could just do a when *tokens.keys at one point. Ruby treats it just like a list of conditions."

"Squib has been influenced by the Radio Userland philosophy of keeping your data and application local and publishing a rendered site to your web host."

"I have a confession to make: Ruby on Rails does not impress me."

"It is significantly1 less effort to implement a web application in Rails than in any other framework in which I have worked but it is not better than those other frameworks, just easier."

"Ruby's dad could totally beat up Python's dad."

"I started out taking a look at how I could robustly handle i18n in my Rails Weblog implementation, and ended up in a completely different place - ensuring that Weblog produced well formed XML."

It's like a web proxy version of GreaseMonkey

"The individual records open up as YAML-documents that you can interact with and the changes are persisted."

"Simplest html/xhtml template library for Ruby"

"This tutorial is intended for first-time users of Rails who want to build a small database-driven application."

"Using Ruby and SQLite to create Linux clusters that take advantage of idle nodes and bypass expensive software solutions."

"The Alph Project is a bridge between two language runtimes; the Ruby interpreter and the Macromedia Flash player." Need this for Python!

Wow. Sort of nifty use of NNW, but it seems like it'd be easier to do this entirely in Ruby.

The designer of Ruby is programming your brain