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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco

We are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate…

Adding to this, Bundler —a meta tool for resolving the correct versions of all of a project's gem dependencies and which quickly became vital to nearly all Ruby application development—was created independently of the above players by Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche. In February 2017, following protracted discussion of the post-install message and the threat of rate-limiting access to gem installs, I agreed to put my name on a letter alongside 18 others (including one of Bundler's creators). His blatant copying of Portable Ruby (a project significant enough that the lead maintainer gave a talk about how they did it) struck me as brazenly hypocritical, given Andre's previous litigious and mistaken accusation against Google.

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