What is this, bring out the Trolls day? Ruby does in fact both have libraries and APIs (hyperbole aside). But none of what you've described is a reason why Py

What is this, bring out the Trolls day? Ruby does in fact both have libraries and APIs (hyperbole aside). But none of what you've described is a reason why Python has become more prevalent than Ruby. This is just your personal bone to pick over nomenclature used by the Ruby community. Rails is not the only piece of software in the Ruby community, and definitely not the most well designed (although it too is being improved significantly both in consistency and cleanliness in the push to 3.0).