Great points. I also admire Ruby as a language (Eloquent Ruby is probably my fav programming book at this point in my life) but have had absolute nightmare scen

Great points. I also admire Ruby as a language (Eloquent Ruby is probably my fav programming book at this point in my life) but have had absolute nightmare scenarios thanks to terrible engineers who are not good at software architecture. Rails is a blessing and a curse in this regard. 99% of the time when I get air dropped on a big piece of non-rails ruby software it's going to 1. be a headache and 2. earn me a tremendous number of billable hours trying to fix it. A lot of dev/consulting shops that popped up after the advent of Rails began using it for absolutely everything and none of them knew what they were doing architecturally.