Maybe it wasn't but if they're complaining about deploying a Ruby service then something is wrong already in their deployment pipeline so I'm just extrapolating

Maybe it wasn't but if they're complaining about deploying a Ruby service then something is wrong already in their deployment pipeline so I'm just extrapolating. I've deployed plenty of Ruby codebases and it's no more complicated deploying it than anything else that doesn't neatly fit in a single binary.