Comment by sejje
8 hours ago
> I’d love to stop paying attention to him, but I build applications with Rails, so his actions affect me and my clients.
DHH purpose-built a tool so this guy could build a career on it. The guy delightfully uses the tool to get rich. And he wants to hate DHH--probably does--but no, DHH *owes him more*. And has lots of advice for DHH about how to manage his own creation.
The entitlement in 2026 is so wildly off the charts.
Why does the author know better than DHH how to lead rails? How does the author know how the community will react to the keynote?
> The problem is that he stood up at Rails World and told everyone that he was moving his product off Rails
Maybe the author doesn't understand the use-case for rails? I think DHH does. With enough success, there comes a day that you move your product off of rails.
Rails is great for agentic coding, which DHH also said.
Yeah, the author's opinion would be way more justified if Rails were an open-source project with thousands of contributors and not just the hard work of DHH himself in total isolation.
The author's opinion about the direction of rails would be more justified if he was a contributor, which he doesn't appear to be.
But no, you mischaracterize my position, which is that his opinion would be way more justified if he was critiquing someone who had led a failure, or if he had some really valuable insight that DHH didn't have, or if he had led something even more successful than what DHH has managed.
I'm not seeing how DHH's success has any bearing at all. The captain has announced that the ship is sinking. In fact, he left in a lifeboat several months ago. Whether or not he was a good captain has nothing to do with how the remaining passengers should handle his departure.