You think? I can't say I really engage with either community, but purely as an outsider, it appears that anybody who has written any software in Ruby and published it ends up with a minor cult of celebrity, with legions of worshippers being sycophantic.

OK, I could be overstating it a little, but I reckon there are people in the Ruby community who could tell me what DHH had for breakfast.

Perl seems to focus its love and attention on Larry Wall himself, for the most part.