It's sad to see when an open source project becomes overwhelming. On one hand the project is open source, so hopefully, someone else can pick up the torch. We saw this happen in the node.js community and node's been moving along. On the other hand, based on what Lee is saying, it looks like situation is pretty bleak. I'm not a Rails user, but I feel like most of the "hot-startups" in San Francisco run a Ruby stack. From an observer looking into the community and platform though this post, I never realized how many challenges there were in that development environment.