Granted, not all are like that...but many are.
God forbid you should stumble into #RubyOnRails on IRC. Thank God for Stack Overflow!
I also think it's pretty funny/awful/ridiculous to see Rails devs hating on JS code. (JS is difficult to write well, and is NO LESS FUBAR than your average 3+year old Rails app). As recently as Rails 2.x, Rails was using Prototype... how'd that work out? For fuck's sake, how much human decency does it take to be civilized and constructive?
https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294305445521268736
https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294306974248607745
https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/294307486331187201
I guess it's just not all that black and white, is it?
So I don't think this is exclusive to the Rails community.
But, what pisses me off so much - and disappoints me more, is that Ruby (and by extension Rails) is such a beautiful language that allows me to do so much with such clear, and elegant syntax - that I have an expectation that other Rails & Ruby developers would generally be pleasant and nice. Not dicks riding on their high horse because they are the tallest kids in their corner of the playground.
When, in the big scheme of things, they are just 3 feet tall.
This particular instance is even doubly disappointing because I love Hackety Hack and Shoes.rb (which both are made for beginners). Why on earth would I now dedicate some of my time, when I know the maintainer will probably be ridiculing my code behind my back? Now this has just confirmed it.
It's actually quite sad and disappointing. No amount of apologizing will make up for it - unfortunately.
"I have learned that in the open-source world, you are not your code. A critique of your project is not tantamount to a personal attack"
It seems to have improved significantly over the past year. Not sure why.