Recipe for a Great Day

How to have a great day:

1. Hear about a cool new Ruby app.
2. Try to install it.

Wait? Did I say great day? I meant "miserable experience wasting my time on unproven, user-hostile technology". Another list, this time of problems using Ruby:

1. Ruby uses RubyGems to "easily" install applications and dependencies automatically. Think "apt-get install whatever-I-want".
2. RubyGems apparently has had a bug in the 0.9.x branch that causes it to bulk update its source index every time you run "gem install". They're on version 0.9.4 now, and it appears to remain unfixed.
3. Did I mention that performing a bulk update will constantly lock up the application on certain platforms?
4. The documentation for solving this problem literally does not exist. But thank goodness we have documentation that the documentation doesn't exist.
5. Once we get all of this taken care of, we still can't use RubyGems to install anything because it segfaults

I think I'm going to go back to Perl and stay there for awhile.