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For me, it's because Ruby is just hard to grok. You have an object that's acting funny? Where is it defined? Here... here... here... some over here... Which one of those have been executed, and in what order? That sort of thing makes me want to pull my hair out.
I hear this almost every time Ruby is discussed, but I've been building rails apps pretty much exclusively since 2007 and I've only once experienced this problem and it was due to someone trying to make the most generic thing possible to solve a relatively simple problem incorrectly.
Can you point to a specific example? Is it in Ruby libraries? Is it in the application code you are working on? In Rails?
I hear this almost every time Ruby is discussed, but I've been building rails apps pretty much exclusively since 2007 and I've only once experienced this problem and it was due to someone trying to make the most generic thing possible to solve a relatively simple problem incorrectly.
Can you point to a specific example? Is it in Ruby libraries? Is it in the application code you are working on? In Rails?