Yep, and witness Rake releasing an update that breaks Rails, Rubygems releasing an update that breaks Rails, Rails 3 being a performance nightmare, gem authors nuking each others' namespaces...

I think in general that Ruby has one of the better communities out there (I'm a rubyist myself) but all this noise about TDD and cute DSLs (RSpec, Cucumber...) hasn't made a material difference in Ruby code quality compared to any other language.

I'm not saying TDD is good or bad per se. I'm merely saying it's not a good approach for exploring a problem domain.

(Tho' I do think Ron Jeffries is a snake-oil peddler).