Our favorite programming guru, Martin Fowler has written a post on his bliki about Ruby People
From my years of working in the open source community, I have not seen a community so friendly and so cultured (meaning, we come from PHP, Java, .NET, Perl, Python, etc.) The elitism is minimal in the Ruby community… we all just want to have fun and write elegant code. :-)
Do you find the Ruby community friendlier?