# OT-cooling w ruby (RE: Mongrel 0.3.13.1 -- Quick Small Fixes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-cooling-w-ruby-re-mongrel-0-3-13-1-quick-small-fixes/64116>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 22, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-cooling-w-ruby-re-mongrel-0-3-13-1-quick-small-fixes/64116 "2006-06-22T05:35:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-cooling-w-ruby-re-mongrel-0-3-13-1-quick-small-fixes/64116/1 "2006-06-22T05:35:24Z")

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Hi Zed and James,  
To me, you both are very cool ruby hackers. so before you start calling  
names to each other, might as well settle your diffs offline, preferably  
w cool beer and pizza…  
just my friendly nuby advice.  
kind regards -botp

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**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-cooling-w-ruby-re-mongrel-0-3-13-1-quick-small-fixes/64116/2 "2006-06-22T06:08:53Z")

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Peña wrote:

> Hi Zed and James,  
> To me, you both are very cool ruby hackers. so before you  
> start calling names to each other, might as well settle your diffs  
> offline, preferably w cool beer and pizza…

Thanks for the compliment,  
Peña.  
I don’t drink, but I’d consider having coffee with Mr. Shaw.

I replied privately to his recent post, and want to leave it at that,  
and really don’t want to see anyone make anything more of this.

I had previously sent Mr. Shaw a private message, hoping to clarify my  
lengthy post on ruby-talk, and had thought that any continued discussion  
could have been handled that way. I was mistaken. Mr. Shaw and I have  
different ideas on communication technique.

That’s life.

One other thing: I know the people who created and look after Rubygems,  
and they have my utmost respect. If nothing else, I want to be sure  
that they don’t take anything I wrote as a dig or a shallow way to ask  
for changes. If I offended, my apologies.

> just my friendly nuby advice.  
> kind regards -botp

Thanks, and much appreciated. By and large, the Ruby community has some  
of the warmest and smartest people I’ve encountered. I’ve been  
surprised on a few occasions to meet people in real life who’s online  
presence was tactless at best, but who in fact are quite sincere,  
enthusiastic, and well-intentioned. You never know. So I continue to  
try to think well of people, even when they beg me not to.

James B.