Why are Rails developers so smug?

Recently I attended a series of events that had Rails developers there as well as Python developers, Java Developers, etc. It was a nice atmosphere and I enjoyed talking to the other people except the Rails guys. I don’t classify myself as any kind of developer other than just… “I’m a developer”. Currently I am using Django and I love it but this is just for one project, but I have always liked Python very much. Anyway, most of the Rails guys were just dickheads and looked down upon you if you used anything other than Rails. Most of them were punk ass kids that had zero clue about software development outside of Ruby and Rails.

In general, even on the web it just seems like Rails developers are really smug. I watched a talk from Cal Henderson the other day (which was great) and he made comments about how smug Rails guys are. Its true though, every time I read a blog about web frameworks some Rails douche bag chimes in to tell everyone how Rails will save the day and berate you for being so stupid to not use it. I’ve not used it (other than reading through a book) so I can’t speak to its abilities in the real world yet. I have to say though that I want no part of the community at all or Ruby for that matter (Perl’s prettier, somewhat brain dead sister)... I suppose I am ranting but I wonder if anyone has any reason to believe that Rails is so great that their evangelists can be such bastards.