When I read the first rant, I didn't really get it - but now it makes a bit more sense. Sounds like Zed tried to make a career around Mongrel and ended up meet

When I read the first rant, I didn't really get it - but now it makes a bit more sense. Sounds like Zed tried to make a career around Mongrel and ended up meeting a bunch of hucksters and shysters. I was actually thinking of attempting to do a little rails consulting myself - will definately keep this in mind as a cautionary tale. If the writer of Mongrel has a hard time making a living doing Rails consulting, might not be too much money in it after all. Also - thinking about the kind of people who would be interested in paying for a Rails project - they probably have read about how coding in RoR is like putting together legos or something and so would expect to pay very little. In many cases you are likely to get people looking to do something on the cheap. Not saying you would need to do "Rails consulting" - any kind of consulting could be successful - i.e. a normal project where to the client the technology was not as important. But if you wrote Mongrel and tried to make a living by getting consulting gigs on that reputation, could explain why he ended up dealing with the kinds of people he did.