André Arko details Ruby Central's controversial takeover of RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org open source projects, which has led to the loss of 9 of 10 contributors and both RubyConf and RailsConf. The dispute has resulted in Bundler and RubyGems being transferred to Matz, and the author addresses what the Ruby community can do moving forward.
Background
Ruby Central has been a major organizer of Ruby conferences and funder of Ruby open source projects. This article comes from a core contributor describing the fallout from their controversial restructuring of key Ruby infrastructure projects.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jul 31, 2026 at 10:47 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10