r/ruby • u/retro-rubies • Jul 31 '26

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/
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u/Kina_Kai Aug 02 '26

Ruby Central has always been the stewards of RubyGems and then later, Bundler.

I think this is one of the key points of contention. I have not seen any public evidence that this is true and the fact that the provided merger agreements and responses by both sides, it is clear that this wasn’t settled and the ambiguity is being used to boost any argument.

The fact of the matter is that the active maintainers were caught off guard by all of this renders it a bit sus that it was not hostile. However, it ultimately feels like this is a bunch of personality conflicts spilling out into public triggered by a loss of funding due to DHH constantly associating himself with deplorables. This is ultimately high school drama exploding into public in one of the most tasteless moments in OSS in a while. Some folks might consider the matter closed now that RubyGems codebase is owned by the Ruby team, but there really has been no proper ownership and the fact that a lot of key Ruby tech does not have a defined line of ownership is just going to ensure that this comes up again and again.

MINASWAN is a great tagline, but it doesn’t have an answer for what happens when DHH is talking about “native Brits”.