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That’s a pretty strong signal that it wasn’t written or edited by AI. They don’t make spelling mistakes.

Phlex isn’t an abstraction between you and ERB. It doesn’t use ERB at all. It brings the semantics of HTML into the language you’re already using (Ruby) so you don’t need an entirely new language-switcher abstraction to toggle between HTML and Ruby. You just write Ruby and your template generates HTML predictably.

I don’t use gloves but my trigger finger was shot three times yesterday and one hit the nail so I may reconsider. If you’re going to wear gloves they may as well cover your nails because it’s the worst place to be hit.

For me, this also means this is where I’ll direct people from the website/readme for discussions about the projects.

A lot of Rails developers put themselves in a box. They reject all other ideas outright rather than developing their own taste and sense of good software.

Ruby and Rails are great and a great place to start a career. But don’t put yourself in a box. There are other great ideas too. And there will likely be even better ideas that we don’t know about yet. Maybe you’ll come up with them.

Focusing on Rails to begin with won’t limit you unless you limit yourself. Try to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for good software design and see where it leads you.

I thought this was fair enough but they’d have to increase the capacity of the vans.

Is your position really that Ruby Central owned the RubyGems repos and packages? That seems absolutely absurd based on the evidence.

It was to use with this https://pypi.org/project/github-backup/ and created similar tokens with all his other repos/orgs on the same day.

u/schneems can you tell us if this was a read-only token? I believe you will find that it was.

I agree but not access to the service. The maintains should be granted again full ownership of the code, GitHub repos and the packages but it is up to Ruby Central who has access to deploy and maintain the service.

Ruby Central can fork the code or depend on it, it’s up to them.

It’s not the case that there was no one to give access back to. Ownership of the OSS repos should have been fully restored to the maintainers André Arko, Colby Swandale, David Rodríguez, Ellen, HSBT, Josef Šimánek, Martin Emde and Samuel Giddins.

Ruby Central could then either maintain its own fork or depend on RubyGems projects directly. And you haven’t explained the `bundler` takeover.

Yeah, why hasn’t source code control been returns to the maintainers? It’s clear Ruby Central knew they didn’t have the right to control the open source projects. Also, why was the `bundler` package taken over via Ruby Central’s admin access? When will that be restored?

This is useful context, but it doesn't tell the full story, it doesn't provide any reasonable justification and it doesn't explain why four months later there has been no separation of the service from the OSS projects in order to fully restore the maintainers ownership of the open source projects.

Probably to try to get ahead of the news that they swatted Andre.

As you can see, they really don’t want you to see this video. It‘s still up on archive dot org.

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This video was unfortunately taken down by Ruby Central. They will do anything to suppress dissent at this point.

The trademark that was already his.

André registered his existing trademark. I do not believe they are asking for money or other compensation.

Bundler trademark and legitimate maintainership, I assume.

It’s like if someone steals your car and you find them and say, “you know what? You can have it.” Here’s the service history and here’s the ownership paperwork.

I’ve said SQL so many times, I kept saying SQLating instead of escalating. 😄

Yeah, I agree. I can ask Errol if we can cross-post it to Rooftop, which would get it in podcast feeds.

This was way before that, on 21 September.

I also heard this directly from internal sources, but I expect u/f9ae8221b hasn’t and it’s a very fair take given that.

No I wasn’t.

> hopefully you can also see how it does come across as a "gotcha" move, and how that can be damaging of trust for those of us observing from the outside

Sure, I get that.

No. I reached out to many people at Ruby Central early on, before publishing any blog posts. They had no reason to ignore me.