I actually wanted them to ban me for that, because then they'd have even more to explain about them allowing rape/abuse comics about me on their site:

https://github.com/nickmartini/dongml

Which has:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/img/b0de87a4cf0c...

If I was a woman there'd be an international shit storm over that image, but I'm a dude, and one that TPW hates, so of course they won't do shit.

Then again I can usually handle myself so that's what I did.

Oh wow, that nickmartini story is really something. Trolling through github ? Just sad.

And github forgetting the block user functionality makes me think they don't want to listen to user needs. Sure, it may not be a very popular request, but I bet for a minority it's the most important.

Wow this again Zed? Just can't let it go can you?

Coincidentally, the incident with Zed was also fueled by the ruby guys being dicks. He just happens to be a higher-profile personality.

It is rails guys, not ruby guys. I am still wondering why people can't distinguish two different communities. You don't mistake python and django or php and kohana or java and strut, right?

It doesn't work that way. Rails is a major reason for the kind of push Ruby got.

There was a time when CGI and Perl were synonymous. You won't believe how many people have a similar opinion about JQuery and Javascript these days.

A few days back I wanted to use a object oriented language for a big project. Generally I straight away go and use Perl for all my experiments. But since this time I wanted Java programmers to be working with my project later I thought let me use Python as its more syntactically closer to Java. When I started coding, my manager peeked over my shoulder and asked if it was Python in which I was coding I replied yes. He immediately asked me to stop writing in it, as he thinks writing in 2.x is waste of time as it is going to go away, 3.x is not yet having all the libraries. And writing 2.x will force a huge rewrite effort later. I tried and reasoned enough to convince other wise. But alas, it didn't fly.

That is how it works with pointy haired managers. They read something some where and then hold strong opinions about a particular technology.

As programmers we can try and educate people in forums like these.

But managers don't read these forums. They are likely to read magazines from IBM and Oracle, where XML's are glorified and eclipse is presented as the biggest productivity booster ever. Unless we get a forum on such magazines, we won't be able to make much difference.

You're right of course. I've honestly been trying to avoid the Rails community for as long as possible (I'd like to avoid being associated with anyone who would call himself a "Rockstar Programmer"), and with Rails being as big as it is, I've pretty much avoided Ruby entirely.

Ruby community is quite reasonable. I usually avoid discussions in framework communities. At the other hand, programming language communities tend to be more reasonable and nerdy. I feel bad that you missed the chance to know ruby language due to anti rails.

I've coded in Rails since forever (0.5) and I honestly don't see how that dongml thing is funny. I'm not even able to understand how it is supposed to be funny, is it the dicks?

For sure I think that a language shouldn't be avoided for something different than technical reasons, and nothing else.

I code a lot in Ruby and have never touched Rails... Initially I got into Ruby because metasploit is written in it. Ruby might be popular because of Rails but it is not relevant to everyone who codes in Ruby.

I think this Depends on the country or language somewhat too - many ruby guys in Japan are another breed entirely (using it as a playground for esoteric languages, quines..)