2026-07-18 08:36 UTC
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-07-18 09:55
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk OpenRails? Or would Rails be dropped altogether and a new name selected?
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@ajn142@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 18:23
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk call it Ruby: Derailed
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@bencc@morehammer.uk 2026-07-18 09:02
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk it’s grim for sure. As a new 3d printer owner and probable future manyfold user I am pleased that you’re calling it out, but the shame isn’t yours.
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@deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr 2026-07-18 09:39
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk not a Ruby dev here, but boosting in the hope that it can help
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@twipped@twipped.social 2026-07-18 15:35
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk @dansup@mastodon.social It amazes (but does not surprise) me the rails community hasn't forked away from him and renamed to balustrade
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@mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 16:16
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I think a hard fork of Ruby on Rails is the best way from here. I don't personally use it or know any of it and I would love to help out if I actually could but alas my area isn't that... good luck though!
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@kfdm@social.tsun.co 2026-07-19 02:49
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I feel for you 😢 As far as I know, my current stack doesn't have anyone that bad, but who knows what tomorrow might bring 😭 I still naively want to believe that tech groups could eventually push that toxicity out, but history has not proven that to be correct yet ☹️
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@smithsam@mastodon.me.uk 2026-07-19 10:34
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I’m sure there’s enough GPU in the field to have a LLM rebuild rails from scratch in rust before the weekend is out based on the test suite alone
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@brian@social.brian.jp 2026-07-19 12:34
@matthew@famichiki.jp Uh oh what happened in the rails community now?
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-07-28 11:02
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Briefly describe your plan, and I'd probably want to join. I have been writing Ruby code for some twenty years; very rarely touched any Rails. Ended up making a couple of things that do some things that Rails does, albeit differently; the one that had most staying power was a basic application server framework I dubbed Pyramid; its most distinct characteristic was focusing on #LiterateProgramming kind of application development. It used to be proprietary; things have changed since, and now I have full rights to it, although haven't done a public release yet. Insomuch as it would make sense, I'd be happy to share and/or adapt some Pyramid code. (Tempted to suggest naming the new project Ziggurat, after the Asimov quip about cavemen's railroads and ziggurats being built without computers. It kind of ... fits?)
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@RoyBrander@urbanists.social 2026-07-28 15:21
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Sympathies. Limited ones. Your pain is not dismissed, but is seen in context from watching MS take over my large employer's whole computing infrastructure, (1995-97), selling products for major large applications because they leveraged an OS to sell an office suite, after which everything had to be compatible, large and small. And was bad from the beginning. And went on for 30+ years, because moving would be enormous.
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@codeDude@floss.social 2026-07-28 15:26
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I'm in. I have experience with ruby and rails also little bit in c and writing c libraries for ruby.
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@ReasonableMustelid@furries.club 2026-07-28 15:30
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I really like the Ruby language and hate the way this guy sucks up the air in every room.
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@piffio@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 15:56
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I don't remember when it was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby, but I strongly support the initiative. Seize the means!
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@paulshryock@phpc.social 2026-07-28 16:17
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk yes, please. I fully support this. It's been a long time since I've touched Ruby or Rails, so I'm probably not the best fit to contribute, but I like the idea.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca 2026-07-28 17:08
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Have you reached out to the gem.coop people?
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@zhaknafein@mastodon.uno 2026-07-28 21:48
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Ruby on Guardrails