> But Ruby was Rails, so the culture accepted constant rewriting and breakage, and people went along. The main reason people switched probably wasn't rails ma

> But Ruby was Rails, so the culture accepted constant rewriting and breakage, and people went along. The main reason people switched probably wasn't rails making people expect breakage, the main reason was that (a) it was relatively easy to rewrite your code to work on both 1.8 and 1.9 (as long as your dependencies had already done it), and (b) 1.9 was much faster.