Re:Who cares (Score 1)

Yes, it has changed a lot in the past few years, but it has only been around for four years and took time to mature. Deploying it has not been that difficult for a while now in a dedicated environment, and with Passenger (mod_rails) it is ridiculously simple even in a shared environment. Running Rails apps via CGI has not made sense for quite a while, even if you were using Fast CGI, Mongrel and a load balancing proxy have performed better and been easier to set up for quite some time.

Also, I'm not sure exactly what you mean about no debugging. ruby-debug works well, you can catch exceptions and do what you want with them, there are plenty of monitoring options, etc.