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I thought the Ruby community was supposed to be nice? MINISWAN and all that?


Definitely! But the rails community prefers DHHIADSWAD, and I'll let you guess what the letters mean.


MINSWAN, you had an Extra I :p

In case anyone doesn't know it.

"Matz Is Nice So We Are nice." (Matz being the creator of Ruby and generally nice guy.)


I guess I wanted it to be Matz Is NIce So We Are Nice because it's more pronounceable.


Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice.


It's "Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice", because MINASWAN is a joke on the Japanese word for "everyone" (minasan). The -swan is like a super-cutesy suffix honorific thing.

... And yeah, it sucks that it feels like it's died a bit. But keep it up anyway; https://twitter.com/tenderlove is a great example to follow. :)




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