Python diary site author says python and django is easy is understandable. Don't downvote me for that.
Rails installation have become a bit complicated in since rails 3 , hope bundled goes the rubygems, rack, rake way and become a standard installation soon with all ruby distributions.
JavaScript runtime dependency for coffeescript should have been for 20% configuration crowd instead of the 80% convention crowd who face install issues.
Will do a blog post/screencast on setting up ruby and rails on various platforms and share it here on HN by this weekend
