I've felt like any project horribly out of date is a pain to get current, Rails is no exception to that. Sure, many Rails projects have a lot of dependencies, b

I've felt like any project horribly out of date is a pain to get current, Rails is no exception to that. Sure, many Rails projects have a lot of dependencies, but so do other frameworks. Sure, part of your argument is static vs dynamic, but I'm not going to join you in that argument.<grin>