The Ruby Community in 2026

The Ruby community in 2026 is dominated by mean discriminators and their benefactors (they're about 50% of the community at least). Many devs in the Ruby community who are indirect (unconcious) or direct benefactors of discrimination have this attitude of "well, if this discrimination problem is not affecting me, then I don't care". So, they're not real Rubyists because real Rubyists always care about being nice to everyone in the community.

Basically, the #Ruby community in 2026 is comprised of 3 groups. 

The 1st group is the true Rubyists who are customer focused with their work (not popularity focused) and who are sincere nice people, well-educated, and well-accomplished with often a good number of free open-source contributions and talks for the benefit of the Ruby community at large. 

The 2nd group is the elites (devs who work at organizations like RubyConf, 37Signals, and Shopify) who act like they're not required to treat everyone with equality and respect, and often discriminate against certain people in the community, treating them like dirt while boosting other people in the community who don't have merit in Ruby or in general at their expense. When such companies hire unqualified devs by giving them false privilege, they don't always choose them based on true merit or Software Engineering education and skills, yet based on whether they belong to certain elitist circles, they are alphas/cool, or they are good looking to use them as the product, not their Software Engineering education or skills. That's an incredible form of blatant discrimination and preferential treatment. 

The 3rd group is the benefactors of false privilege. It's mostly people who have no completed university degrees, no big accomplishments in open-source, no substantial Software Engineering skills beyond Monkey-See-Monkey-Do and copying "famous devs" at large corps without true understanding, but they're treated like they're better than the 1st group because the 2nd group gets off on the feeling of acting like benevolent heroes by giving false privilege to people in the 3rd group who don't deserve it at the expense of people in the 1st group who have earned everything with sincere effort and smart ethical excellent work. In other words, people in the 3rd group are living off of stolen good via false privilege and preferential treatment while making the Ruby community worse. I have run into people of the 3rd group who work for organizations of people in the 2nd group that came across as extremely rude/mean, unintelligent/unskilled, apathetic towards treating everyone with equality, niceness, and respect, and quite aloof or nasty in some instances. 

This only started happening more with the rise of Shopify as explained in this article:

https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2025/06/shopify-has-been-bad-for-ruby-community.html

In other words, RubyConf in 2026 is FakeRubyConf. Anyone attending it is endorsing discrimination and unexcellence. Learn more about that here: 

https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/06/rubyconf-has-joined-railsconfrailsworld.html 

I've said it in previous posts. If the people perceived as mean discriminators were to courageously address this issue and apologize for it if needed, I'd take down these posts, alas the coward's plea is often the only response provided. They're not real men of honor who are willing to face the music and address serious matters like discrimination to demonstrate good will and tell us they care about treating everyone in the Ruby community equally.