I agree. If you get an idea for a product / website, it's easy to get caught up in using rails or django or nodejs etc... And then there's the steps of which plugins to use. It's very easy to get no work done, and spend all your time setting up the perfect project.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Its far too easy to want to play with the latest and greatest tech, especially when you're already dealing with a bleeding-edge framework. And you're right, I did spend a long time setting up my 'perfect' project with automated deploys and tests...but that's for another post :)