&gt;  If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it.<p>Well it doesn&#x27;t help that there&#x27;s no such thing as a &quot;ruby technology stack&quot; let alone one under a single all-encompassing directorship. Even Rails isn&#x27;t a single stack, it&#x27;s just one piece of the system with plenty of bits around which don&#x27;t fall under rails (OS, application server, datastore, caches, client-side anything without considering the development tools themselves), and rails is only one of the tools for its levels (not to mention the current rails is the result of community mergers).