Ariel Burone  🇦🇷

Just to short-circuit a certain type of reply: YES, I clearly should have googled the error message sooner

Also this is a great example of the "idiot-genius roller coaster" of software development that I first heard about from @KentBeck - there's the trough of despair, "why can't I get something simple like this working" and then the crest of VICTORY, "OMG I AM SO AMAAAAAZING"

Both are illusions

My point here is NOT “Rails is bad” - most frameworks have this upgrade problem. My point is that we put a significant complexity burden onto app developers to understand their OS - which has no redeeming value except making those of us who figure it out feel superior.

How might we enable app developers to to focus their attention on the app, rather than the environment?

Isn't that at least one of the problems docker aims to solve? Don't get me wrong, not saying it is perfect at it, and there is plenty to learn in those realms...