Somehow I managed to find myself reading a very long rant on RoR and the RoR community by Zed, the creator of Mongrel.  He picks on lots of people, groups of people, technologies, and companies, but here's some of my favorite parts from his rant.

This is exactly what makes Rails a ghetto. A bunch of half-trained former PHP morons who never bother to sit down and really learn the computer science they were too good to study in college.

You hear that? The #1 money maker for 2008 years will be Rails cleanup. I’m not shitting you, it’s true and so just get over it and make the money.

If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average. Repeat that to yourself. “He couldn’t keep his own servers running for longer than 4 minutes on average.” Assuming his statements are true (which we may never know) he basically duped us all.

What pisses me off is that I know they’re responsible (ThoughtWorks) for turning Ruby on Rails into the next Visual Basic.

After ThoughtWorks left the most recent project we revamped the team. We got rid of pair programming, cut down the number of tests, started cleaning more and more code out, got rid of their shitty tools, and we all started leaving at 6pm. What happens? We doubled our productivity with fewer people.

First it started on the fringe in start-ups and a few lonely places where it’s having mixed success (mostly due to the poor performance of the Ruby platform). Now it’s getting adopted internally at companies where of course it’ll get fucked up again and die off. After that it’ll move to the government sector where it will languish along with it’s new found buddy COBOL.