Ruby on Rails can survive, yes, as it is robust enough to weather the various changes that have been taking place on the system architecture

Anyone with a more qualified opinion want to chime in as to whether it's worth it to go for the 'CUTTING EDGE' version 15 for a guy using 14.04 atm? I am using this machine for some light gaming, word processing, internet & basic software development

now there's a great idea. i like it.

Google+ really hits the convenience factor. That's their advantage.

I think a lot of guys would be socially awkward enough on their own without porn and videogames making it worse. One guy I watched decay into a husk of a man, fading away as he descended deeper into the madness that is WoW. 15 hour WoW days were not uncommon. Then again, he was a greasy, awkward nerdy kid who had lots of acne and long unkempt hair, so... how much of it was because of WoW and how much of it was unavoidable? He was probably cursed from the get-go, sadly.