[dagw]

When the Ruby team makes changes the attitude is generally 'deal with it'

However they complement this attitude by being a lot better at working with big 3rd party library developers and making sure they are on board. To the best of knowledge there has never been a Ruby release that was incompatible with RoR for any period of time. Compare to Python that jumped to python 3 without either numpy or Django on board.

[yxhuvud]

Well, on the other hand I definitely remember a point release of 1.8.7 that broke Rails :)

[wycats]

Momentarily, and Matz appeared to feel so bad about it that they have been far more aggressive about tiny-version changes ever since.