Did some googling today, sorry for my comment! (But mine was one of the nicer ones ;-)

"Obie is one of those Ruby developers with no programming experience"

http://blog.crazybob.org/2007/09/gavin-king-on-activerecord....

The tech has changed, but the Flamewars were just as hot 2 decades ago! Bob was never afraid to have an opinion.

A bit sad to see all those deadlinks in the comments though. From what I recall sites like JRoller were captured by the Way Back machine, but images seem to have been lost. At least they were for my blog at the time.

Yes, JRoller, TheServerSide, I remember when they launched, I think I got paid for writing a review or something, "lost like tears in the rain".