Agreed. I saw "turnkey rails" in the sidebar and thought I'd take a look into it. It's very unclear what versions of software are included. The last changelog entry on 2011/12/06 says nothing about ruby or rails versions. The last mention was 2011/01/27 claiming REE 1.8.7-2010.02_i386_ubuntu10.04.
To give a perspective on update frequency, according to the same page (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/rails), two updates before that was Fri, 2009/10/23 - 16:35. This update claims to have ruby 4.1 installed. It seems that their VM image also includes a time machine.
Not getting a huge feel of confidence from that being featured on their landing page. An open market can be good, but when it comes to supplying an image for my production env, that type of thing could leave me feeling a bit uneasy.