I keep wanting to look into ruby, but every time I hear about these personalities involved, It turns me off.
And sometimes those curses come true. Like they say, "Fuck you!" and then you finally get laid.
With any language you have the freedom to write want you want to write, pick from the sources you feel are the best.
You can ignore the ruby community at large and still be productive. I don't see why (pun intended) if you don't use rails, you care about DHH, or Zed or whatever.
If you're unable to overlook _why as a fun programmer who happens to program ruby, I guess thats ok, but you really are missing out on an interesting language. I'd say the same thing about someone worrying about Guido and Python. Stretching that last analogy but I honestly don't know of any other programmer-artist that quite fits into the vein of _why. He is/was really unique.