I am a happy Puppet/Vagrant-user and would give away a substantial amount of money for a build/management/hosting-service for all that. Still, you need a hook, and the (in)famous 15-minute-blog was a tremendous hook, as is a "setup a clean dev env in 2 minutes". Immediate usage is the greatest hook you can get. I remember using frameworks where the setup took hours and was closely bound to the machine you were using unless you built your own tooling on top of the whole thing.
Also: there is a lot of stuff around in the Ruby world that can advances the state of the community as you say, even by salvaging Rails. I have not written a Rails App in around 2 years, yet I constantly use parts of it. Rails became a much better community citizen over the last few years.
If the 15-minute-hookiness is all you complain about: well, let them have it, if its fun :). I don't care about it a lot, but it is fun to get started.
>Rails became a much better community citizen over the last few years.
That much I've noticed. A lot of Sinatra/Generic-rack-blah users have been successfully pirating various chunks of functionality from the Rails community. I'm thankful for that.
Actually: Yes. I was even programming Ruby before that, after it won in a flip-coin-contest against Python. :)
We might be on the same page here, but with different mindsets: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4138088
I am a happy Puppet/Vagrant-user and would give away a substantial amount of money for a build/management/hosting-service for all that. Still, you need a hook, and the (in)famous 15-minute-blog was a tremendous hook, as is a "setup a clean dev env in 2 minutes". Immediate usage is the greatest hook you can get. I remember using frameworks where the setup took hours and was closely bound to the machine you were using unless you built your own tooling on top of the whole thing.
Also: there is a lot of stuff around in the Ruby world that can advances the state of the community as you say, even by salvaging Rails. I have not written a Rails App in around 2 years, yet I constantly use parts of it. Rails became a much better community citizen over the last few years.
If the 15-minute-hookiness is all you complain about: well, let them have it, if its fun :). I don't care about it a lot, but it is fun to get started.