Zed Shaw (the creator of Mongrel) not long ago described how the Ruby on Rails community is a ghetto.

Working with both Python and Ruby now, I learn every day how much Ruby, too, is a ghetto.  Nobody documents anything (e.g. solr-ruby).  The few projects that have documentation do not document clearly or completely (Rails…).

Moreover, take Ruby’s standard package management system: rubygems.  A simple gem install uses up 600+ MB of RAM on my SliceHost machine.  But again, lack of documentation scars this project even more deeply.  Take a look at its Frequenty Asked Questions Page:

[I lost my internet connection while composing the answer to this question. Unfortunately, I now no longer recall what I intended to write. The answer (or at least part of the answer) is buried deep in the RubyGems mail archive. I’ll try to update this after a bit of research. Sorry for leaving this question hanging.]

Seriously, “I now no longer recall what I intended to write.”  For how many months has this lunacy been online?  Ruby is a ghetto.