So many gems are either not written well, or not maintained well. How many times have you seen the case where you update gem to fix a bug, and then cause two more?
It's not Rails or Ruby's fault, it's the community.
Consider: ImageMagick and OpenSSL.
Newer platforms haven't had this problem because they've already broken all their old software (Rust) or because they're still changing rapidly enough that new software is still emerging (Swift).
It's not the community's fault. It's that it gets harder and harder to keep things clean the longer your language has been around.
People get hyped about any language the same way. How many Erlang "experts" or Node.js "ninjas" are there out there? Give it a rest. If people want to get excited about something don't shit all over them.
Right about now is when you should go ahead and read his username, ideally out loud in your best Sean Connery voice.