Mastodawn

Facinating write up of the recent rubygems drama's, in what's being named the #RubyGemsFracture

Brings up critically important conversationbs on running small self organising affinity groups and navigating community owned governance.

My take is this is not as simple as left vs right and that there are many parties involved who have really behaved quite terribly.

So much in this one.

#ruby #RubyOnRails #Governance #SelfOrganising #TealOrganisations #RubyDrama #Shopify #DHH

https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/

RubyGems Fracture Incident Report

By: Richard Schneeman This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September 10-18, 2025, which I’ve named “RubyGems Fracture.” Preamble I joined Ruby Central’s Open Source Committee on October 22nd, 2025, after the GitHub access changes. I was

Ruby Central

Ricardo Yasuda Nov 11

Don't get fooled by the title, and don't get discouraged by its size. It's definitely worth reading, if you are/were part of the Ruby/Rails community.

I can relate a lot with this essay by @phillmv

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

#Ruby #Rails #RubyDrama

In Praise of dhh

A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.

mathew Oct 7

Following the hostile takeover of RubyGems by RubyCentral / Shopify / DHH, the people who had been working on RubyGems and Bundler are starting a replacement, to be run as a co-op.

https://www.fullstackruby.dev/ruby-infrastructure/2025/10/06/theres-a-new-gem-server-in-town/
#Ruby #RubyDrama