Comment by Aurornis

The Ruby on Rails community has always been hard to separate from DHH.

The fact that he went on stage at a Ruby on Rails keynote and talked about his current passions instead of Rails is kind of typical for his style of leadership. The Ruby on Rails project and community were always the DHH show, even though there were years where they tried hard to act like it was an independent community run project now.

This late in the game, I think most RoR fans who are committed enough to attend a RoR conference have aligned themselves with DHH more than RoR, which is why you see some positive responses to a RoR keynote that didn't talk about RoR.