There are certain computer programming languages now in use that attract a weird following. Ruby has become a really fanatic-attracting language to the point where if I meet any Ruby developers at a party I just sort of edge away from them assuring them that I know exactly how awesome Ruby is and that I sacrifice a goat to Yukihiro Matsumoto every night, screaming and gibbering snippets of Ruby code while I slay the beast.
As weird and clique-y as they are, they always seemed kind of sane compared to the Rails people I met. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, I congratulate you. You are probably doing something important. Even if you aren't, it's still sort of pleasing to me that you aren't familiar with this buzzword-laden nightmare, much less one of these deranged individuals trying to tell me that my CS degree was worthless, and that I should have focused in "business science" with a minor in "information." *
Now, I would like to start a startup. And while that means taking a certain amount of good natured ribbing about Web 2.0, I am kind of tired of people assuming I am tasteless enough to use this shitheap. And now I have been vindicated by an unlikely source: a leader of the Rails community!
Or an ex-leader, I guess. It's always kind of cool when someone fairly well-respected by a large group loses his shit and denounces his following. Zed Shaw is the Jim Jones of Railstown.
I look forward to reading his updates, and so should you. Another voice is added to my choir of profane blogs I check from work every day!
* Actual quote from Rails-jockey I met in Boston once upon a time.
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