All accusations towards Ruby are just ridiculous and are factually inaccurate! It is important that as a community we debunk these myths and unjustified criticisms. An even better road to take would be to provide examples of how computationally complex problems can be dealt with efficiently in Ruby, highlighting the best practices and the existing workarounds.
A religious community is emotionally easy to attack and may produce inopportune responses in defense of whatever has been questioned. Over the past three years I’ve heard a few bad things about Ruby and I’ve seen all sorts of responses, which in some cases were simply overreactions.
Ruby is a wonderfully designed language. The Ruby and Ruby on Rails communities have a lot of passion. We love our language, created by a very cool guy (and maestro of humbleness) in Japan. We love our framework authored by a Danish GAP model, and we really enjoy the spirit in the community. We have the best non-paid marketing department in the world. We started the revolution which is powering most of the new social websites out there.
Ruby on Rails is the single most important and valuable technical solution, language and tool for software problems.