Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists?

Ruby's image to the programming public is inextricably linked to Rails, and so to web development, and making fun of web developers is a time-honored tradition among people who fancy themselves "Real Programmers."

Outside of this (friendly?) rivarly, I think even the most obstinate Pythonista has to recognize that Ruby is a perfectly capable language for non-web development.

Because python devs look down on everybody :)

they are? news to me

Look at the forums and stuff.. They seem to speak of python as kings and ruby as a second class citizen...

Because ruby sucks -- just kidding... I didn't know python devs even had much of an opinion about the ruby folks.