On community I was referring on Rails only and saying first of all is a tool and a way, then a community. Ruby community might be different than Rails.

I have a strange feeling about Rails as community: I see more chaos than order by everything changing so fast. When trying to build something in Rails I have to spend hours to see if that particular part of my application is written already or not.

And yes, being part of a community first of all must be fun. But in order to be part of the community first one should feel comfortable with the tool and a way.

I wrote this post in defense of rails and DHH, for non-rubyist and railsist firts of all. And i’m sure I’ll be part of these communities very soon.

You are missing out on a large part of the fun by looking at a language as nothing more than a tool. I co-organized Merbday Atlanta last year precisely because I identify with the ruby community. I am assistant organizer with the Atlanta Ruby User Group because I find in that group many like minded individuals who share a common interest with me.

The ruby community has traditionally been quite different from other language communities. Ruby folks have been friendly, comforting, helpful, and genuinely nice. I think as the popularity of ruby increases, the discourse has begun to mirror that in other open source communities, and the niceness has been somewhat diluted. Its no longer a little community, but it is still a community. If you ignore that, you are missing out on half the fun

“But. First of all, Rails is a tool and a way. Not a community, not an open source project, not a Messiah and not a democracy. “

Curious.