[giancarlostoro]

One issue I had with Ruby on Rails was getting MySQL drivers to even cooperate on both Windows and Linux. At the end of the day I wound up sticking to Python and other languages instead. I don't mind using any language, but if the language is fighting me due to native dependency hell then I can't really do much. Even to just use SQLite was a bit of a painful experience, yet on Python SQLite works out of the box without any effort on my part (on Windows). Oddly enough.

I'm looking to getting back into Ruby at some point later this year, but I might ignore Rails altogether so I don't miss out on learning a new fun language.