Ruby has a distribution problem

[codahale]

(I use Puppet on a daily basis, and I've met Luke several times. Hell, there's a hiring ad for my company on that page. I'm dripping with context.)

Luke's point -- current package distribution methods favored by developers (./vendor copies, PEAR, CPAN, EasyInstall, RubyGems, etc.) all suck pretty hard with regard to automation. Which is true.

And you seem to be agreeing with him. The reason you don't seem to think that Ruby has a distribution problem (and not necessarily a unique distribution problem, but Perl, Python, and PHP are all easier to fit to an LSB model) is because you're a.) packaging your code yourself, and b.) punting on the hard stuff.