I believe part of the problem for Ron there is a.) speed of the community & lack of communication, b.) lack of consistent tool isolation. You notice he's using

I believe part of the problem for Ron there is a.) speed of the community & lack of communication, b.) lack of consistent tool isolation. You notice he's using RVM (while most of the Ruby developers I know have moved to rbenv due to better support) and that it was out of date. Also, he had the foresight to isolate his Ruby tooling by using rvm (good on 'ya, Ron!) for bizarre system dependencies, but did not chose to use a similar Python environment manager strategy such as pyenv of pythonbrew (for suffering the same damn problems). I sincerely empathize with him, but some of this can be argued as the cost of doing development n! generations past we recognized the impact of 'internet time'.