I suspect the downvoters need to have more of a sense of humor.
Yeah, I don't know what's most predictable about some Hacker News readers, the fact that they are in love with Ruby or that they are not good at detecting sarcasm.
Ruby's popularity is pretty irrelevant to using it as a tool. It's incredibly well-supported, and there's talent for it abound.
My guess would be it's more that no experienced Ruby developer would use GoDaddy for hosting. So most people they've got using it are probably inexperienced people (on that basis if you had experience, you'd use something like Heroku) who would probably be characterised by low spend and high support costs.
You are absolutely correct (I'm a PM at GoDaddy). There are some terrific Ruby hosting offerings (personally, I love Heroku) so we are focusing on being great at a few things. We've come a long way in the past 6 months with our hosting performance, but still have a ways to go.
Was not expecting a comments from someone at GoDaddy here, appreciate the response.
I concur. Now that I use Ansible, it's been a long time since I touched anything Ruby.
My life is better for it too, I felt really agitated every time I had to touch Ruby code.