I know there is a lot of very serious people using Ruby (and Rails), but the community that builds businesses around the technology needs to deliver a message to the kids: that they should behave or their toys will be taken away.
Tell me what langauge you use so I can irrationally avoid it.
Feel free to avoid any language you want. The point I was making is that I have no energy to deal with childish behavior of toxic community leaders and their abandoned minions. Life is too short and my to-do list is way too long. :-)
I am not saying I will not use Ruby or Rails - it's a very nice stack. But, most certainly, I will not invest much time contributing to it unless the rest of the community sheds away its more toxic members.
What you can clearly see between the tenors of the two communities is that there is more surface-level drama in the Ruby community.
What that has to do with anything professional, I have no idea. I read Ruby blog posts and mailing list entries, but I don't write them; I write code (and here) instead.
Python, on the other hand, is establishing itself as a serious tool for serious programmers. Python developers don't get calls from crazy teenagers and blog about it.
People like that are swimming in a pond, and they are holding such long discussions about the state of the water in the pond, that they don't notice the rivers, lakes and oceans around them.
I would still not bet any money on Ruby.