To my ears, you're describing "DLL hell", but saying that it isn't really DLL hell, because you can work around it, and because the problems are just as bad in some other languages.
Personally, I think Rails is pretty hard to deploy. There are just too many global inter-dependencies that need to be managed.
Personally, I think Rails is pretty hard to deploy. There are just too many global inter-dependencies that need to be managed.