[robryan]

Without knowing anything about the core ruby developers, it's possible most of them are detached from current real world ruby applications with heavy weight frameworks?

[cageface]

It's amusing that Rails is now considered a heavy framework. I remember writing my first Rails app with Rails 0.8. It was a tremendous breath of fresh air then. Seven years later it's the bloated incumbent.

[rawsyntax]

there's always merb 1.1

[plastics]

It's also possible, that real world Ruby applications are - in Japan - generally not written using Rails.