I've always wanted to spend more time evaluating RoR but it has often received a lot of criticism for a bunch of different reasons.
Without actually deploying my own Ruby on Rails app to determine the criticism is justified or if the platform will work for me, I've got to rely on the next best thing: observation of other deployments.
Unfortunately, one of the sites I frequent which happens to utilize Ruby on Rails is the LA Times Travel section. I say it's unfortunate since 2 out of 5 times I see an interesting article come in through RSS, I'll get an error like the one displayed on the left. I don't know what's going on with the developers over there, but either way, it's aggravating as an end user to be lead to such poorly handled errors. What makes the situation worse is that the LA Tims site itself makes the original content difficult to find.
Ugh.
I'm certainly not saying this is the fault of Ruby on Rails since I'm not equipped to evaluate the situation. Whatever the cause though, whether developer oversight or user error, it's not encouraging for the platform as a whole.
