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Joel “this is bs” Drapper Sep 23, 2025

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/

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

@joeldrapper I wonder why the coup'ed maintainers aren't talking to GitHub support and ask them to restore the repository to the previous state.