Read about the first in a series of updates to RubyGems and RubyGems.org from our developer Martin Emde and designer Ian Taylor. Also Martin made some changes to Rails controller permission handling that will be in the next major release.
This is a difficult blog post to write. At Cloud City Development, we had many conversations about the problems with diversity and sexism in tech, such as women reporting harassment and abuse at tech conferences, online conversations challenging the Ruby culture, and community struggles to make everyone feel welcome, especially marginalized groups. As individuals, employees, and Ruby community members, what is our role in creating the kind of community we want to be in?
