I'm finally ready for the post-DHH Rails era! Are you!?!

The other day I chatted with someone from 37Signals. He didn't even tell me "Congratulations" for winning the Fukuoka Prefecture Future IT Initiative 2025 award for Glimmer DSL for Web when I mentioned it as a Ruby accomplishment. I mean any normal person would say "Congrats", let alone Ruby devs who should find any Ruby accomplishments infinitely interesting. That was not nice whatsoever, and frankly very creepy and weird. 

This proves my point once again about the Ruby on Rails community not being nice anymore and having become corrupt from the top. Both 37Signals and Shopify have become garbage in recent years. DHH is a terrible leader. I supported him a lot in the last 10 years, defending Rails whenever possible, but given that I know now he hires trash at his company, which doesn't support my award-winning highly useful open-source projects or other highly useful tools like Opal out of a sense of community, I think I'm finally done with supporting DHH. I don't appreciate the unequal relationship in which I support DHH and Rails folks, but they don't support me back. I'm finally ready for the post-DHH Rails era!

I mean 2025 was such an ugly year for the Ruby on Rails community and DHH. It hosted the last RailsConf due to issues between RailsConf and DHH. It had a huge conflict between Mike Perham and DHH that removed Sidekiq's financial support for Ruby Central. Shopify showed its true colors when it did a hostile take over of Ruby Central's RubyGems and Bundler (which fortunately later got moved under the purview of the Ruby core committers team, including Matz, the creator of Ruby). Ruby Conferences rejected my Matz-award-winning open-source Ruby Frontend project that saves developers 6 months of Frontend work every year over JavaScript, and allowed JavaScript in instead, believe it or not! And, Ruby/Rails subreddit members demonstrated over and over again mean unintelligent behavior, false privilege entitlement without qualifications, and closed-mindedness/standing-in-the-way-of-progress by downvoting novel posts to zero without even discussing them while sharing very nasty comments that ignored wrongdoing and clearly took sides just for 100% tribal bias reasons instead of thinking of everyone as an equal accountable for equal standards while being equally fallible, thus required to apologize for any committed mistakes instead of sweeping them under the rug. These things prove 100% that the Ruby on Rails community isn't nice anymore as per MINASWAN (Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice). That is no longer arguable.

Not being truly nice goes hand in hand with stupidity. Nicer people collaborate better with others, so they end up with better information exchange and better work overall. No wonder the Ruby community has gone down the drain in recent years given that discrimination and unniceness have been normalized. Don't be deceived by discriminatory niceness, which is given to some people only but not to everyone equally. Some think the community is still nice because they're treated nicely without paying attention and noticing that niceness is offered to them as preferential treatment that is masking the problem. 

I would say that it's definitely the Rails subcommunity of the Ruby community that has the very big problems of unniceness and discrimination. The Ruby community outside of Rails is a lot nicer as it doesn't include companies like 37Signals and Shopify, and has devs who use Ruby with GUI Desktop Development, Opal, and TUI Development. Unfortunately, this fact gets lost sometimes because the Rails subcommunity is the loudest in the Ruby community and it gives the Ruby community a bad name.