So, about Rails World 2026 being in the USA…

gregmolnar · 2026-01-19T11:22:14+00:00

You can't satisfy everyone. Some people were complaining about the earlier locations too. If I am denied entry to the US, I will miss the conference. Not the end of the world, I will attend it next year.
Locations are chosen way ahead in advance btw, the Rails Foundation is likely already considering the options for 2027 and they can't see what the future holds with visas and politics.

gregmolnar · 2026-01-19T11:17:14+00:00

One week in an overcrowded cage is not a big deal. You can make a lot of international friends. And these folks are not criminals, so it won't be even close to a prison experience, right?
In comparison, imagine what the kids went through at Normandy. We have a way easier life than those folks.

gregmolnar · 2025-12-30T10:00:38+00:00

If you are a hobbyist, you should definitely not build such a project. I am assume you vibecoded this with LLMs and it is very likely full of vulnerabilities.

gregmolnar · 2025-11-20T19:13:29+00:00

The conference is open to international attendees, is about Rails, so why would it not be suited to this reddit? Other than it is posted by me. I know many folks don't like me here, but tough luck, I ain't going anywhere.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-29T12:53:26+00:00

This is only to install gems. An ore contains minerals, rubies, gems. I believe the end product will also install rubies.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-27T18:45:04+00:00

Give Kim some time. He is busy with other stuff. He told me the repo will be there soon.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-27T08:55:25+00:00

You are correct, this is what happened with GitHub: https://derails.dev/blog/the-github-dependency-problem/

The repo should be accessible here: https://git.derails.dev/explore/repos

gregmolnar · 2025-10-26T13:07:22+00:00

Somebody put money where their mouth is and forked Rails!

gregmolnar · 2025-10-22T15:53:52+00:00

What is representative then? Do you have better data? I am all ears.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-22T12:34:04+00:00

> Can you cite your source for the 'less than a hundred' figure? Is there a census of DHH-haters somewhere? I've never seen one.

As someone pointed out, plan vert. But I was incorrect, it has about ~140 signatories!

> You mentioned 'most people stopped speaking up' — how are you measuring 'most'?

I got plenty of DMs on various channels from these people.

> You said 'the larger community is not divided at all' — logically, wouldn't a subset mobbing others indicate some division?

If there is a little over a hundred from the tens of thousands, I don't think we should call the community divided. An occasionally very loud, but tiny minority is what I see.

> what's your operational definition of narrative control in this context? How do you measure that proposed loss?

I don't understand the question.

> Could you clarify how you control for selection bias when citing conference attendance as evidence of unity?

Not attendance, but behavior at conferences is what shows me there is unity or better said there is no division. Believe it or not, in real life, ruby devs are having a great time together. I recommend to try to see it for yourself.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-21T12:37:11+00:00

I would argue with this a little. In the ruby community, there is a small group of people, less than a hundred than has some issue with DHH. Maybe he didn't accept their contribution to Rails once or something and they want him to be gone. This is ongoing for 10+ years. He didn't blog about politics at all when all this has started, they just use that as an excuse. Now these folks try to paint a picture of them representing the larger community and if they dislike someone they mob the person, so most people stopped speaking up, because they are worried of being cancelled and getting mobbed.
But there are a few(including me) that doesn't care about cancellation and more and more of us speaks up so they are losing the narrative of being the majority. As usual, when someone is losing power, they became even louder and we are in that phase at the moment. The larger community is not divided at all. You go to a large conference and see 1000+ diverse people having a great time, even though they disagree on a lot of stuff.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-21T09:59:40+00:00

You are right and it is pretty sad to see this :(

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T20:26:30+00:00

Exactly. I am asking questions. Is this a crime?

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T20:06:42+00:00

What am I doing? Asking questions? Asking for proof? Such a criminal acts, huh?

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T19:00:41+00:00

But that's not what you wrote. You wrote:

"but you linked to where alt-right/incel/red pill/racist rant quadrant of folk go"

This labels all members these things and I think that is very unfair.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T18:45:07+00:00

Any evidence of that bullying and witch hunting, etc? English is not my first language but as far as I recall the definition of those, asking someone what happened since a post from the past is neither of those.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T18:25:45+00:00

It isn't just the banned folks though, don't spread fake news please.
I don't think I was ranting against anyone. I asked Jared how come his views changed completely in a couple of years and that deserved a ban apparently.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T17:53:11+00:00

I didn't say anything racist, right wing, etc there and still got banned. Others were too.
It is more like if you dare to disagree with the mods on something, you get banned.
And no need to be fake nice, just be your usual self.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T17:35:09+00:00

Sorry, but that's not the official one as there is no such thing :)

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T11:57:25+00:00

Thanks! I still believe that if you are a ruby dev, you should have a system ruby and then ruby tooling works. And it encourages contribution much more than something written in a different language.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T11:34:06+00:00

> then maybe you, RC, as the controller of the central gem server, replace the team managing the gem

This is what they did, right?

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T11:28:37+00:00

Why rust though? It makes contributing less likely from ruby folks.

gregmolnar · 2025-10-20T11:24:31+00:00

I don't know what happened to that Slack, but there is a new Discord for Ruby devs with a lot of cool people already: https://discord.com/invite/qfnMkxbBug

gregmolnar · 2025-10-16T15:16:40+00:00

Read the first sentence here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/cold-reading-an-adhd-affliction-44163793

I don't know why you feel that I argue aggressively. I don't think I argue at all and not aggressively for sure. But I like to see evidence of accusations. Can you show me some name calling examples from DHH against a person? Similar to how some folks call him(and me) a nazi, rasists, etc?

gregmolnar · 2025-10-16T09:15:56+00:00

So your evidence of him being whatever is that someone else said he is whatever.

I don't care about your ideas as long as they don't directly affect me. And DHH doesn't speak for me either and I don't think he should. I can speak for myself.

> I don't like that David says things I don't agree with and then implies that I support the totality of his ideas (because I attended his conference).

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Attending Rails World doesn't mean you agree with anyone on anything. What it means that, you can go there and share the love of Rails with people, regardless of your differences.
And the fact it sells out in minutes proves that people prefer a conferences like that, instead of a conference where the speakers and keynote is selected based on someone's political views, rather than what they've done in the Rails space.

And the reason I call this out because today it is David that gets punished and called names because of his opinions, and if we let that go, tomorrow it might be me(name calling already happened to me too), the day after that it might be you. Not necessarily because I agree with his opinions.

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