You've given some good reasons for why it's complicated to install and configure a web framework. But the claim here is that ruby and rails are difficult relat

You've given some good reasons for why it's complicated to install and configure a web framework. But the claim here is that ruby and rails are difficult relative to other programming languages. Having installed and configured other frameworks for dev work, I'd say that rails is exceptionally easy, but I can't really speak to the challenges at the production level. For that, I use Joyent, which has been fairly easy as well. None of this is meant to knock Heroku.