Amanda Perino

Please read this and send it to your company's Engineering leadership.

Ownership of the RubyGems and Bundler repositories has officially moved to the Ruby core team. Ruby Central will continue to collaborate closely on management, governance, and development while operating rubygems.org for the community.

Read more here: rubycentral.org/news/ruby-ce...

🌈 Passport update:
We're working hard to making more of them and send them to conference and meetup organizers.

Ruby Gems and Bundler will be moved into the Ruby organization.

* Ruby Core and Ruby Central will be managing it together
* No changes to license, IP, or copyright
* rubygems.org operated by Ruby Central

www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...

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Adrian Marin's Ruby Stamps Page on RubyEvents.org.

Additionally to collecting stamps in your physical @therubypassport.com, you can now also collect and see these stamps on @rubyevents.org!

People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing For context, last week I wrote a post bringing to light a number of things Andre Arko had said and done (/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-sides-in-the-rubygems-fiasco/) in the past as a way to provide some context. Context that might explain why any of the principal actors involved in the RubyGems maintainer crisis (summarized well up to that point by Emanuel Maiberg (https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/)) would take such otherwise inexplicable actions and then fail to even attempt to explain them. Today, Jean shed some light on Shopify's significant investments in Ruby and Rails open-source (https://byroot.github.io/opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html), and it actually paints a picture of corporate investment in open source done right. (Disclosure: I know and am friends with several people who work at Shopify on these teams, and unless they're all lying to me, they sure seem to prioritize their work based on what Ruby and Rails need, as opposed to what Shopify wants.) Jean went a step further by contrasting Shopify's approach with the perverse incentives at play when individuals or groups receive sponsorships to do open source. He also drew a pretty clear line of those incentives playing out based on how RubyGems and Bundler maintainers reacted to Shopify's feature submissions. Read the post, it's good.

People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what…

Here’s a note from our Executive Director regarding our recent security incident.
rubycentral.org/news/rubygem...

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

This is correct. We spend money on Rails World (aiming for a certain net loss after sponsorships and ticket revenue). We do not make money on it, and don't plan to.

Rails World: Amanda Perino - The Ruby Gems Podcast Amanda Perino, Executive Director of the Rails Foundation, shares insights into Rails World's evolution and the foundation's growth strategy for supporting the global Ruby on Rails community. From cre...

Our 2nd #RailsWorld episode is up! Check out our interview with Amanda Perino (@amandabrooke.bsky.social) from the Rails Foundation, as we discuss everything that goes into putting Rails World together: www.buzzsprout.com/2509083/epis...

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well.

apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

I understand. I also heard from people in the US that couldn't attend Rails World this year because they didn't want to face immigration on the way back into the US. There's no winning here, just waiting and hoping things get better.

Awww, thank you! I haven't logged in in here in awhile, so just saw this. I appreciate it! <3

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