Rails Bridge
By Robert on May 5th, 2009
FACollective primarily uses Ruby and Rails for most of our work here and we were really disappointed in the Rails community as of late. It seems it is “appropriate” and “acceptable” to demean women at conferences and when said women speak out, they are told it is something wrong with them for feeling the way they do.
This is absolutely unacceptable in any community. This isn’t the first time the “leaders” of the Rails community have acted immaturely and not the first time I’ve wanted to not use Rails because of certain people’s view point of what is acceptable. I had previously stop using Rails and started using Merb, however, this attitude is actually coming out of merb core, accepted by the rails core, which are all now one.
I really do hate these ideologies where deeming people is “cool” and “acceptable”. I was pleasantly surprised when Mike Gunderloy and company started Rails Bridge. This is a place to better the community and be friendly with all people no matter who you happen to be; where projects for non-profits are taken on pro-bono, mentoring, code audits and more. A place to give to the community and reach out to others who need help.
We at FACollective really believe in giving back and helping those who need it. We will be offering free accounts of whatever size is needed of Site Remark for Rails Bridge and any non-profit company that seeks out help from the Rails Bridge Community. We will also be donating our time and talent to help build up the Rails Bridge site itself where ever we can.
We really look forward to being apart of this new growing community and ask that you stop by and give your support to this community as well.