It's Official! The Bullies Are Running The Ruby Community!

After reading Joel Drapper's article "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover" and Josef Simanek's article "Why I leave Ruby Central", there is no doubt left in the fact that Shopify is a mean opportunistic company and isn't good for the Ruby community. They intentionally compromised the neutrality of RubyGems and Bundler for their own commercial interests. Meaning, they don't have the best interests of the Ruby community and customers in mind aside from profit, yet only their own self interests that are ultimately about their own profit. That fully compromised RubyGems and Bundler as being non-profit neutral platforms not associated directly with any company's commercial interests.

Just like that, the false image of Shopify as a nice entity in the Ruby community is completely shattered and exposed for the illusion it always was! Shopify does in no way follow the Ruby MINASWAN attitude and practice (Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice)!

I already blogged about how Shopify has been bad for the Ruby community in the article "Shopify Has Been Bad for the Ruby Community in the Last 10 Years". The events of last week support everything I wrote as true. I haven't received any apologies from Shopify about what I wrote even though it is all 100% true. Everybody makes mistakes, but good people humbly own up and apologize when they realize their mistakes whereas bad people neither humbly own up nor apologize for their mistakes. 

A wronged person would at least expect something like "Hey, sorry! We messed up! We don't do this anymore as we learned from our past mistakes (or we fired whoever did this). Let's have a chat to make sure we're good going forward!". Not receiving communication as basic as that means the company is truly evil. If I was working at Shopify right now and I read a story like this, I'd immediately dust up my resume to go find another job. After all, everyone who works at Shopify right now is working at the expense of pushing people like me down by Shopify's mean elitist discriminatory practices. It's like someone living at a house that was paid for by stealing from a percentage of people in their community. It's not right at all! 

That's part of the reason why I was surprised DHH recently joined Shopify's board of directors. That indicts him further as part of the problem, not the solution. I have observed that companies that have evil discriminatory practices like Shopify's are almost always 1000+ employee companies as they treat people like numbers by the definition of them being too large. After all, their size, which is mainly driven by the greed for too much profit, makes it impractical for everybody to know everybody and treat everybody like an equal, let alone they have fake problems caused mostly by their size, preventing them from being truly agile like small-to-mid-size companies. DHH's 37Signals is a small company that should have a much better culture, so it's surprising that he chose to join the board of directors of one of those big corrupt evil companies that are totally unlike his.

In summary, it's official! The bullies are running the Ruby Community today! And, it's been having terrible effects on the Ruby community as a whole, especially innovation in Ruby. I recently recorded a video of myself talking about how "Ruby on Rails Conferences Are Discriminatory, Unintelligent, and Hateful of Ruby in 2025". This is a direct result of the bullies running the Ruby community!!!

In fact, I have suffered quite a bit from this covert bullying in the Ruby community in previous jobs, and have written an article about "How To Spot Covert Discrimination in the Ruby Community".

I had a hard time talking about the bullying in the Ruby community in the past because I really needed to keep my job for financial reasons, and I didn't want to lose my job by talking about the discrimination I was facing at various companies I worked at as well as in the interview process of companies I was considering. Fortunately, I have a good job now, and I am not worried anymore about talking about all the discrimination I received from past companies in past jobs. 

If you have faced bullying in the Ruby community at a previous job, please speak up about it for the benefit of everyone who is oppressed by unethical Ruby companies. Don't do it just for yourself, but for the benefit of the tens, hundreds, or thousands of employees that are potentially being bullied at bad Ruby companies today. After all, speaking up about this problem is the only way to expose it and then eventually eliminate it and prevent it. I know it is very hard to speak up about this problem, but every voice that gets added in opposition of bullying helps prevent further bullying in the future.