In "Rails Is A Ghetto", Zed Shaw, creator of the popular Mongrel HTTP daemon / library, puts together an amazing 6000+ word rant on various areas of the Rails ecosystem (but, by association, the Ruby community too) and tears pieces out of several people in the community, along with Rails' code quality and Rails / Ruby consulting companies. Zed explains that the rant is "part of my grand exit strategy from the Ruby and Rails community."

If you're the type to get depressed by reading some pretty powerful ranting and raving, give it a miss, but this is a true "rubbernecking at the car crash" type article, and Zed, never one to sugar coat things, tells it as it is. The rant is due to be updated in the next few days with Zed's opinions about sucky Ruby conferences and why "the Pickaxe book is what killed Ruby."

From what I can make out, there's no way to comment over at Zed's site, so maybe this post will make a good place for you to comment with your own opinions.. so go for it.