Kind of related to this post, Rails is a Ghetto is a story about the dark side of the software "industry" from a developer's perspective.

Zed Shaw is the disgruntled former developer of a webserver called Mongrel. Mongrel can (and probably should) be used in deploying production grade Ruby on Rails webapps. In this rant, Zed makes his distaste for what the Ruby community has become quite clear.