[moe]

I... sobered up.

Same here, still have my napkin notes. It's actually one of my bucket list projects, if there wasn't the dreadful food-on-table constraint...

check out wheels in Python.

Valid point. Python is indeed a good example for an even worse situation. In fairness, most languages are still worse off than Ruby even now. I wouldn't trade maven, CPAN, etc. for bundler with all its warts.

However, there's also languages pulling ahead. npm seems to be slowly getting there (after a rough start) and the Go experience (godep), while still in flux and not directly comparable, is also something to draw lessons from.