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New Remote Ruby episode is out! With @excid3.com on paternity leave, I brought in @drbragg.dev and @chaelcodes.bsky.social to unpack the recent controversies surrounding Ruby Central and its control over RubyGems and Bundler. www.buzzsprout.com/2260490/epis...

I don’t know why you refused to talk about DHH. He was the reason sidekick pulled their sponsorship. DHH and Tobi have been acting atrociously since the debacle insulting and berating valuable members of the community. If you are brave address this in a podcast

> DHH and Tobi have been acting atrociously (sic) insulting and berating valuable members of the community Can you provide sources for this? We wanted to stick to what’s confirmed (timeline and governance issues), not speculation on motives. The goal wasn’t to dodge, just to keep it useful.

You can look at their xitter posts to see their abuse of various members of the Ruby community. Mike Perham was very public about why he ended his contributions to Ruby central. It was because of DHH Honestly this whole thing at its core is about DHH

Again, can you link to some specific examples?

You made me log into xitter but Here is one tobi reposted x.com/ironcladdev/...

Mmm ok yep that's wild, don't get me wrong. But seems like a false equivalence. It doesn't talk about anything related to the issue in the episode and instead is about something unrelated (imo) which is calls for DHH to step down. Again, absolutely wild retweet.

As of now, there has been no direct confirmation that the RC takeover was in any way related to this.

I can directly confirm that DHH's surprise apperance at RailsConf 2025 caused a funding catastrophe for Ruby Central which then led to the board deciding on the recent course of events *because the only big remaining sponsor was Shopify* and if they ran off, RC as a viable org was completely toast.

I can also directly confirm that DHH weaponized his apperance at RailsConf (before his appearance, this was on social media a mere 2 days after the initial announcement) to attack perceived enemies, RC *knew* this (because I supplied the evidence!), and they took no action to enforce their CoC.

If you have evidence, I'd love to see it! Like I've said, we were trying to stick to verifiable evidence so if you have some, bring it on.

I will take a look. You don't happen to have a recording do you?

even just to privately share

I don't have a recording unfortunately. RC recorded the session, because they asked for permission from folks in the call, and then we were expecting that meant they would post the call after the fact, but they never did (I mention all this in my article).