Libertas, Proprietas, Pietas

The way I think about that in the most glorious terms possible, libertas, proprietize, pas. We have freedom to do whatever we want with this framework that we all share. It comes in a form of a macass, but you can change it however you want. It's just Ruby code. You can literally do bundle open, see how everything works, and if you don't like it, you can just change it. Hell, you can monkey patch string to do something nutty. That degree of freedom to shoot yourself in the head is wonderful. I pride the fact that we use sharp tools in the Rails community and we are not afraid of our citizens propriet. We have full ownership of what we work on. No one is coming down to tell us that this is how it has to be done. This is how it has to work. There are suggestions. I will occasionally tell you that I think our spec syntax is ugly as sin and you should stop using it. But you know what? You're free to ignore me as many of you have done for many years. You bastards. And finally, pietas duty. We are not just consumers of a framework. We're not just beneficiaries of some magic open-source vendor in the sky dropping little packages on us and gifts. No, no. You're supposed to do your part for the empire. You're supposed to do your part for the framework. You're supposed to do your part for open source.

Being a full-stack framework is not ambitious enough. We need to pursue the virtues of Libertas, Proprietas, Pietas across our entire computing stack. Embrace end-to-end problem solving and open source with the humility of a CRUD monkey. That's the theme of my Rails World keynote, which was delivered just yesterday in front of a packed audience in Amsterdam, at a conference that sold out in less than two minutes. See the full keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwzWzC7gUA