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50+ Devs working on a single project/codebase tend to get messy/chaotic. I don't think it's worth blaming this on Ruby/Rails.

Over time I learned that Ruby and Rails are as told easy to learn, but sadly you'll need some time to master the Language/Framework. And the difference is quite big and easy to overlook once you do.

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People like to say that it's easy to learn, and "fun" and "efficient". The opposite is true. Of all the languages I've learned (Pascal/C/C++/Java/C#/Hack/Go/Scala) it's by far the most difficult. For the following reasons:

- it makes a lot of unconventional/strange design decisions

- the nature of the language makes it difficult for IDEs to offer good support (e.g. autocomplete, show what methods you can call on a given object)

- it encourages people to write unreadable code to show how clever they are

All of these things are the opposite of fun and efficient and easy-to-learn.

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