For sale: Rails, slightly used. $25,000

Hold up.<p>1) If you don't agree, don't contribute (time or money). You're doing OSS wrong.<p>2) Obviously Yehuda has given a lot to Rails and other OSS communities. He recognizes a problem (regardless of its origin) that he wants to fix. Posts like this will drive people like him away. I know my life is easier because of the work Yehuda has done. If you don't like it, go back to Rails 2.X, or help fix it yourself.<p>3) Thinking back to the Rails 2 days, things weren't dramatically better for dependencies and getting Rails setup. This project would be applicable then.<p>4) Posts like this will only drive away the contributions of a smart, giving person. Lots of people make a lot of money off the work the Rails Core Team has done, don't label one of them a thief because they need financial help to focus their improvements on a specific pain point.

I suspect that this project will end up in the same place as Locomotive, for the same reasons. It's a very platform-specific way to manage a thing that should be largely platform-agnostic. Now, if someone were to leverage homebrew and write a recipe for one-stop installation of Rails with sensible choices for its dependencies, that would be cool.

I think you're overreacting. Don't contribute to the project if you aren't interested.<p>Personally, I don't think this is needed, but I can see why people are interested in it.