I don't program in Ruby. I don't write Rails apps. Still, now and again I see apps written in Ruby that look useful so I think "I know, I'll give this a try". To date, this has been an utter loss.

1. Typo. 300MB of RAM for an absolutely minimal blog framework? Seriously? Wordpress has approximately 1434 times the features and runs in a fraction of the memory. It's undoubtedly faster too, but I haven't bothered to measure.
2. PowerDNS on Rails. Installation instructions are remarkably simple. Turns out this is because they are sorely incomplete. But this turns out to be moot because it simply doesn't work in any case. I filed a bug report but I'm not holding my breath as most of the bugs listed are months old.

Admittedly, two apps isn't a representative sample by any means. Still, 0 for 2 isn't a good start and doesn't encourage me to invest the time in trying others.

As an aside, I learned a few months ago that "rails" is slang for lines of cocaine (yes, I'm not that up on the drug subculture these days). In any case, I'm suddenly enlightened as to the origins of RoR and DHH's oddly self-aggrandizing attitude.