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Ruby is a hacker's paradise. The reason things are so chaotic is because people are doing so many cool things independently. It's impossible for someone to step in and impose order for the benefit of beginners, and even if it were possible it would diminish the value of Ruby.

The greatest opportunity for improvement is in the documentation arena, since blog posts are a huge part of the Rails documentation ecosystem, and because they tend to go stale and clog up Google with misinformation. Rails Guides are a really nice addition, but a meta-source that provided staleness information and list of preferred resources for various things would go a long way towards guiding newbies to a sane stating point (hmm, wheels turning in head).