Well, the "home" it was phoning was on the same network, so it wasn't a security issue, just a usability/performance one. This wasn't anything against the Ruby

Well, the "home" it was phoning was on the same network, so it wasn't a security issue, just a usability/performance one. This wasn't anything against the Ruby community--just an errant library written by one person who thought it would be more "convenient" if the database connection were established up front.