Jan Lehnardt 

Okay so this was a hostile takeover. The Ruby community needs to get their house in order.

And one more note, I assume it is implied in the write up, but you might now know: DHH is on the board of directors of Shopify. He exerts tremendous organisational and financial power.

It’s hilarious he’s threatened by three devs with a hobby project and is willing to burn his community’s reputation over it.
https://ruby.social/@joeldrapper/115254240567396139

Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover. https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

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Sep 24, 2025 at 9:11amWeb
Show threadMartin EllisSep 24, 2025
@janl Ah, good point. I read the article, but I had forgotten that and missed the connection entirely. Pleased to say it’s been a while since I gave him any thought whatsoever.
Show threadFelix 𝄢 (what is normality)Sep 24, 2025
@janl (typo in DDH)
Show threadFelix 𝄢 (what is normality)Sep 24, 2025
@janl he already doesn't care about his reputation or Rails', he probably doesn't care about Ruby's either 🥲
Show threadJudy2kSep 24, 2025
@janl Finally, the context I needed to make this make sense! Cheers.
Show threadRosyna KellerSep 24, 2025
@janl I guess when his company didn’t burn to the ground after defending a racist, he felt extremely emboldened to be an even worse person?
Show threadMcNeelySep 24, 2025

@janl the CEO of Shopify is not without his own issues*, why does so much blame go so much to DHH and his influence and not get shared?

*To my knowledge Tobi is not so radicalized but I'm neither a Rubyist or Canadian so I may have just not seen it.

Show threadJan Lehnardt Sep 24, 2025
@McNeely Tobi is on record defending Shopify’s right to fund the alt right via hosting their online shops.
Show threadMcNeelySep 24, 2025
@janl yeah I guess what I am asking is why does Shopify's involvement automatically mean its DHH pulling strings? That's the missing part I don't get all of this
Show threadJan Lehnardt Sep 24, 2025
@McNeely it doesn’t but it’d be odd if not.
Show threadPat AllanSep 24, 2025

@janl I think there’s been some bad blood between some of the Rails Core team and what was Ruby Together (Rubygems maintainers prior to being brought into the Ruby Central fold)… so I wonder if André now being forced out is related to that? i.e. pretty grudge bullshit rather than the new hobby project.

And FWIW from my own interactions with him, André is a Good Human.

Show threadAndreas HallerSep 24, 2025
@pat @janl Yes. I totally don't understand why rv should be a threat to RC. It's just a tool. It would work with the rubygems.org index as well, right? I am happy for all tooling that tries to make Ruby install and gems management easier, because this is still a major PITA if we are honest.