I suspect that Ruby also benefited from having a comparatively young community. There are folks that used Ruby before Rails, but the majority of Rubyists only s

I suspect that Ruby also benefited from having a comparatively young community. There are folks that used Ruby before Rails, but the majority of Rubyists only started in 2006 or later, so they are used to the faster replacement rate of modern Open Source and didn't have so many legacy codebases to worry about.