In addition to brudgers point about strings, which might very well be true, in Ruby it was never an option to stay on the old version. The mindset of a really s

In addition to brudgers point about strings, which might very well be true, in Ruby it was never an option to stay on the old version. The mindset of a really stable Ruby version does not exist. If someone considers Ruby, he is fast made aware of the fact that it will be necessary to adapt the code to the new ruby version, probably. But since that is true for everyone, all the frameworks and gems do the same anyway, which makes it easier. But the breaks were not that big. And the new versions always had really cool features, so updating was really nice. It might be a mindset thing of Ruby developers.