I abandoned Rails years back because of precisely this problem. Releases would break or arbitrarily drop functionality, with little or no documentation. If you

I abandoned Rails years back because of precisely this problem. Releases would break or arbitrarily drop functionality, with little or no documentation. If you got more than a few point releases behind you were really screwed. I couldn't explain the dearth of documentation for these changes at all, it seemed so lax compared to other platforms. Then I realised all the incentives for those who would produce the documents were towards producing books and paid-for screencasts, and knew my time was up.