I've been doing Rails now for a decade, and I love ruby, but Rails is not suitable for installable open source software. It is one of the worst languages for t

I've been doing Rails now for a decade, and I love ruby, but Rails is not suitable for installable open source software. It is one of the worst languages for that use case. The whole mentality of the Rails community runs counter to the goals of providing easily deployable packages. There is certainly a lot of low-hanging fruit to work on these issues, but I don't see it becoming a priority anytime soon because if you value these things you're probably already using some other language than ruby. The sweet spot for Rails is custom apps that is continuously maintained over a long period, or discardable prototypes. It is not a good choice for deploy-and-forget, or organizations without any in-house programmers.