[steveklabnik]

The initial code for Rubygems was written at Rubyconf '06, if I remember correctly. The Ruby world was very, very different back then. Same with Rails, originally released in '05.

My point is that it's 'taken so long' because all this code is stuff that was written in a totally different time and place. And then was built on top of, after years and years and years.

Now that it _is_ being examined, that's why you see some many advisories. This is a good thing, not a bad one! It's all being looked through and taken care of.