I think that the real teller on Ruby is it's own website. not the main page, but most of the surrounding infrastructure linked community is really slow. That is, it is painful to browse. I don't use Ruby or Python very much, but when I do I usually go through the main site for language to find reference and documentation and Ruby is definitely more difficult on that count because of this. I can only assume that it is because they build their websites in Ruby.

On the other hand, Ruby is Japanese. I suppose that the websites may be hosted on on Japanese servers all that way across the and that may account for the lag. It's still annoying though.