--- title: Code Master Blog: Ruby Open-Source Innovation Process... description: A Ruby developer shares their frustration with the gap between expected and actual outcomes in the Ruby open-source community. Despite winning an award from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/code-master-blog-ruby-open-source-innovation-process-expectation-vs-reality-ehnuzlxkw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Code Master Blog: Ruby Open-Source Innovation Process Expectation vs Reality | daily.dev og:description: A Ruby developer shares their frustration with the gap between expected and actual outcomes in the Ruby open-source community. Despite winning an award from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/code-master-blog-ruby-open-source-innovation-process-expectation-vs-reality-ehnuzlxkw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EHNuzlXKw.png og:image:alt: Code Master Blog: Ruby Open-Source Innovation Process Expectation vs Reality og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Code Master Blog: Ruby Open-Source Innovation Process Expectation vs Reality **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Ruby developer shares their frustration with the gap between expected and actual outcomes in the Ruby open-source community. Despite winning an award from Matz (Ruby's creator) for an innovative frontend framework (Glimmer DSL for Web) and getting accepted to present at conferences, their talk was rejected from RubyConf. The author attributes this to in-group/out-group dynamics and suggests the conference discriminates against projects that challenge JavaScript frameworks like React, ultimately harming the Ruby community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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