As a business owner & pre 1.0 Rails adopter, I completely agree. It's never been the goal of Rails to support programmers who need long, conservative developme

As a business owner & pre 1.0 Rails adopter, I completely agree. It's never been the goal of Rails to support programmers who need long, conservative development cycles. Improvements get that much harder that much more quickly. Having said that the 2.3 series is fully baked now, and there is some commercial support out there. Are there software contractors out there who 1) like Rails, 2) sell their services on a long-term basis based on 2.3? Doesn't seem very likely.