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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Based on the latest reporting by @joeldrapper regarding the #RubyCentralTakeover, and my own experiences which heretofore have not been reported, I am now sharing this additional timeline of what transpired during the DHH debacle surrounding #RailsConf 2025.

Recent events since have led me to a place where I believe the #Ruby community must start over from the democratic grassroots. I will not and cannot associate with Ruby Central as it currently stands. Here's why:

https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith

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James Smith 💾
James Smith 💾
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@jaredwhite @joeldrapper quite right, it’s long overdue that the entire community ostracised DHH before Ruby becomes a nazi bar.

I’m collecting signatures on this open letter, perhaps you’d like to add yours or share onwards? https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@Floppy @joeldrapper I'm on there already 😄
thank you!

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

The TL;DR, in case you're wondering, is that I *personally* shared in a private Zoom community meeting on June 10 with Ruby Central leadership that DHH had already weaponized his announced return to RailsConf to attack his perceived political enemies. I shared with them the link to his post mocking critics as “ardent ideologues fighting the last war on Reddit” and that “the rest of the tech world has mostly moved on from the nonsense of the early 2020s”.

Crickets. Bupkis.

And here we are.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

That was *in response* to Ruby Central claiming they would uphold their Code of Conduct and ensure that DHH or any speaker wouldn't use an appearance at RailsConf as an endorsement for antagonistic views over and against critics.

They knew.

They knew on June 10.

They knew on September 4 when they went to Rails World and kissed the ring.

And now Ruby Central and the entire RubyGems ecosystem appears to have been captured by Shopify of which DHH is a board member.

The center cannot hold.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Just updated my article referenced above with a new link to long-time (10+ years!) contributor and maintainer Josef Šimánek on his leaving #Ruby Central, and it is very damning (and also completely reinforces Joel Drapper's reporting). #RubyCentralTakeover

https://gist.github.com/simi/349d881d16d3d86947945615a47c60ca

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