Gavin Montague
Tekin Süleyman 🍉 ☕️The Ruby community has a DHH problem.
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem
Monospace Mentor@tekin 👏👏👏
gosha@tekin Thank you!
The Long Tail
gprimola$ 
@sleepyfox to which community have you moved?
Adrian McEwen@tekin thanks for that. The Ruby community really needs to get rid of DHH.
ben moretti@tekin people are lauding his Linux distro omarchy as “non-woke”. I didn’t work out why until now
Johan Halse@morebento @tekin not just because of DHH himself I think. I suspect he picked Hyprland as his compositor for a reason. They’re known for being a pretty bad bunch https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
@morebento @tekin I think it’s doubly sad because there’s a lot of good being done with Ruby, not least Mastodon - an incredibly successful Rails project that he just has never even mentioned, it’s dead to him because of his ideological blinders. He took so much psychic damage from that walkout and he’s never going to recover.
@hejsna @tekin thanks that does sound like a toxic community! That ethos does permeate through like any group. I’m not a Ruby user and have only ever briefly paid attention to rails and so on but it’s sad to see this stuff happen. There are many cases of inclusive communities. The recent Python documentary highlights the work needed to do that.
Chris Lowis@tekin thank you for writing so clearly and eloquently.
Jim Gardner@tekin This is what real leadership and bravery looks like. Thank you! DHH could learn a lot from you!
gazsp@tekin Wowzers. He's been drinking the Trump coolaid.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)@tekin Spot on. 👏 There's no need to put up with him any longer; we can choose a better path, associate with people who respect diversity, equity, and inclusion, and form a new community. 🙌
@haitchfive@tekin Since 2005. If you didn't see the signs back then, fine.
But it should have been pretty clear a few years after.
McNeely@tekin how is it even possible at this point that every time I check in on the Ruby community DHH gets even more unhinged...
Sir l33tname@tekin classic bad take from dhh
joriki 
not the only reason ruby fell from grace, but the ruby community probably already missed the chance to address the issue, repair the damage, and gain some goodwill mindshare for doing the right thing in a timely fashion
it's now just below Lisp, and I don't think it's ever rising back up
Esparta 
soaproot
Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂@tekin especially topical since the business with rubygems — which he is apparently at least tangentially involved with; it all kicked off after some ruby central folks resigned their jobs there because of dhh. we don't know the connection for sure, but that's the timing.
MelHamnavoe@tekin At this point #Techbro #SciFi #Fascism is pretty much a given. A woke or non-woke Linux distro is risible. Much of the fault lies with us as developers, we have a terrible tendency to make our tools & ecosystems part of our identity, and to elevate people to cult status. Perhaps we all need to grow up a bit, laugh at the washing machine obsessions, argue back against the bigotry, take no 💩from the McNugget Philosophers.
Misty@tekin Well said. Thank you for this.
FediThing 
This is really powerful:
"As a non-white British citizen born and raised in London, I can’t explain just how painful it is to hear this sort of toxic rhetoric being promoted by one of the most prominent and visible leaders of the Ruby community. I experienced my fair share of racism growing up in London in the eighties and nineties from the very people that DHH is lionising in his post. White men who questioned my right to exist."
Joel Chippindale@tekin Well said!
Benoit@tekin Thanks, Tekin. Great post, I feel the same. I’m glad I got to meet you last time in the UK. :)
Adam Greenfield