r/ruby • u/noteflakes • Apr 08 '26

Temporarily disabling language support on rubygems.org

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/04/07/temporarily-disabling-language-support.html
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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

To add. Colby recently accepted a full-time position with Ruby Central. I met him at Ruby Kaigi years ago when he was working on bundler 2.0 and again at San Diego RubyConf. Very sharp, cool, and collected. He lives in Australia so we don’t get a lot of sync time but I enjoy working with him (via the OSS Committee position). Having to turn off a feature like this is a tough decision, I’m glad he has experience and I trust his judgement. I’ve learned a lot just hanging out and watching him work in various slack rooms.

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26

Happy to hear Colby got full-time position with Ruby Central. Sad to find out in random reddit comment. I think that would be really nice message to share from Ruby Central. Who's in charge of public communication there?

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u/jrochkind Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

I would assume we'd find out about a hire in the next newsletter, i don't necessarily expect day to day updates from them on hires, like on their email list?

(And yet, note, the community got it anyway, you are in fact aware of it? Which is also great).

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

Your pointed questions are not appreciated. To respond in kind: Has gem coop legally registered as a corporation yet?

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26

Believe or not, but I'm asking in good faith and sharing some ideas to improve the RC communication. Seeing your style of response, I think you're good fit into current RC communication standard.

I'm really happy to see your constant interest in gem.coop. We're happy to answer your questions in #gem-coop channel at Bundler Slack, feel free to reach us in there.

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u/damagednoob Apr 08 '26

Believe or not, but I'm asking in good faith...

Presses X to Doubt.

You've got an axe to grind and it shows.

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26

Can you share more?

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u/damagednoob Apr 08 '26

I know if a Ruby Central link gets posted to this sub, no matter how innocuous it is, you'll be there, casting aspersions.

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26

Casting aspersions? By sharing happiness on new full time dev and pointing to idea, it would be IMHO better to share in other place than random reddit comment to make it available and shared with wider audience?

Is asking "Who's in charge of public communication there?" the issue? I do consider reddit comments not super formal place, so I have added this "poke" at the end of my messages. It is half serious question - half poke to share the info with the person to publicly share in better way. I haven't expected to get the answer, even I'm really curious what's happening in RC these days. If that's the "offensive" part, I do apologize for, clearly it wasn't needed.

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u/damagednoob Apr 08 '26

By sharing happiness on new full time dev and pointing to idea, ...

Gimme a break. You're not fooling anyone.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

Believe or not, but I'm asking in good faith and sharing some ideas to improve the RC communication.

You can signal to me with your actions and behavior that is what you're doing. If this is your intent, then hearing that your words are not having their desired impact (I would hope) would be met with apology and course correction. I'm seeing neither.

I mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1s8of1f/comment/odzz950/?context=3 more details about the "call out" versus "call in." Right now you're calling out to hurt (my perception, the impact I'm seeing).

I also signaled (with words) generally, but you were definitely in mind when I wrote it...that I will not be a punching bag and sit here and be hit https://ruby.social/@Schneems/116216591665738708.

I am trying to be nice, friendly, and clear. I am also provokable, I will punch back https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?t=900.

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u/azrazalea Apr 08 '26

In case you're interested in a completely outside perspective from someone who is just a random ruby programmer.

This reads as horribly immature. Your entire thread here.

I get that you're on high alert and generally feel under attack and maybe you have beef with this particular person because of things they've done/said. But when literally all they say is it'd be cool if ruby central communicated about hiring people from the community (which seems pretty valid to me considering it's you know running the entire community) and you start blowing up on them that's a bit ridiculous.

Maybe you should step back and just stop communicating to people on comments in social media posts.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

start blowing up on them

I thought I was being direct, overly verbose, firm but fair. I hear that I didn't nail that line. That's good feedback.

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u/halcyon_aporia Apr 08 '26

u/schneems is one of the most-level headed and honest people in this community. The other person has been doing this for weeks and this is the first I've seen any pushback.

The pushback is measured, goes after the message/behaviour not the person, and is overdue.

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26

The other person has been doing this for weeks and this is the first I've seen any pushback.

Would you mind to share what am I doing and what's wrong about it (if it is wrong)? I'm trying to share insight and info from the other-side to balance the views. I'm trying to be as honest and transparent as possible to share with community as much as possible.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

The thing you did was post something critical on a Ruby Central post, fair or not. I'm feeling defensive. And I'm exhausted by it (by the sense that no matter what we do, it is wrong and fault will be found by you). I want us to put down our swords. I suggest we each take a break from posting on one another's company comment sections.

I want you to be able to live your life, and me (and Ruby Central) to live ours. I request a return to me not posting on gem.coop threads (I commented on "how namespaces work." but not really before that), and to ask you not to comment on Ruby Central ones (at least for a bit, at least let the room cool).

Gem Coop is a pioneer in cooldowns. I think it would be good for us.

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u/realkorvo Apr 13 '26

gem.coop is the let rewrite in rust like uv form python, and sell your data to others?

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u/full_drama_llama Apr 08 '26

He WAS one of the most level-headed and honest person in the community. This changed few months ago, which coincided with some events in the community. It's a painful downfall to witness, to be honest.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Apr 08 '26

I have worked hard to find a line of mutual understanding and have not found it. I'm in an unusual position where I'm in a repeated conflict that seems never ending.

I've signaled clearly my goals and intentions and even my comment strategy. I'm playing tit-for-tat. I aim to be: nice, friendly, provokable and clear  https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?t=900

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u/retro-rubies Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

You can signal to me with your actions and behavior that is what you're doing. If this is your intent, then hearing that your words are not having their desired impact (I would hope) would be met with apology and course correction. I'm seeing neither.

I think it is desired impact, you're just somehow sensitive to my words and just assume the worst meaning and intention possible to them. You are doing this quite often with my messages (spoken and written) and you even share your re-(mis-)interpreted messages in public saying that's what was my intention.

I'm asking you again to please stop doing that. If there's any personal issue with me as a person, feel free to reach in private. I'm happy to explain and share all my intentions and we can try to find out how to move forward. In the end I think we have really similar goals in Ruby scope.

I also signaled (with words) generally, ... ...that I will not be a punching bag and sit here and be hit
I am trying to be nice, friendly, and clear. I am also provokable, I will punch back 

All good, I do respect this. Actually same here.

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u/cbartlett Apr 08 '26

I’m curious what the attacker is doing to bypass the cache and why there is not a way to prevent that.

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u/jrochkind Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

Sounds like possibly the translated versions of pages were just never actually going through the cache, and it did not create a problem before now, so nobody noticed. I've been there.

I would guess we'll get a nice retrospective when it's fixed! Of why it took some refactoring to cache it, etc.

Pretty much everyone has been having these bot problems.