What an odd thing to say. I guess if you're confined to the Ruby/Git communities, it might seem like no one else has any passion, but still...
There's a ton of fantastic work being done in Python and on the JVM, and quite a few vocal fans of hg. I mean, Scala and Closure get a ton of play here. People are doing fantastic stuff with Django, Twisted, Stackless (and bragging about it). There are lots of people (me included) that would probably be using hg full time if it weren't for Github.
It's really important to keep yourself from being cloistered in a single environment, I think. It's awfully easy to miss cool stuff elsewhere if all you give a crap about is Ruby, and probably detrimental to your own learning.
There's a ton of fantastic work being done in Python and on the JVM, and quite a few vocal fans of hg. I mean, Scala and Closure get a ton of play here. People are doing fantastic stuff with Django, Twisted, Stackless (and bragging about it). There are lots of people (me included) that would probably be using hg full time if it weren't for Github.
It's really important to keep yourself from being cloistered in a single environment, I think. It's awfully easy to miss cool stuff elsewhere if all you give a crap about is Ruby, and probably detrimental to your own learning.