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What are some symptoms of a cult of personality? I use Ruby and Rails and I know that DHH and Aaron Patterson are somewhat famous but don’t know much about them

• mattgreenrocks 3y ago
  Both of those individuals have made fantastic contributions. My beef isn’t with them. It’s with the community that insists that DHH’s software design edicts are The One True Way. Instead of software design being a thing you can use to make your life better, we are to believe that Rails Is All You Need. And think at the time it was the framework to use, so it attracted a lot of people who believed software dev should be “do what the thought leader says.” No idea what it’s like now, but it truly felt like people saying those things out of tribal affiliation more than technical acumen. And that is a recipe for stagnation. That said, I still respect the tech and the creators a lot. I just don’t share the values at all.
  • vidarh 3y ago
    There's plenty to Ruby outside of Rails. Many of us hardly touch Rails - even in the web space there is a wide range of other frameworks. I tend to agree there's much cruft in the Rails space, but I also hardly ever interact with the Rails crowd.