[sunkencity]

Yes, one of the benefits of Rails most overlooked by it's opponents is how immensely productive it is for small to medium sized apps. This comes from not only the DRY perspective but also from having strong standard ways to do things, and quite a stable API.

I don't agree on the sentiment in the article that it's hard to follow what happens in rails/activerecord. It's pretty well documented and all the quirks are thoroughly discussed on stackoverflow. Ruby has excellent tooling and it's easy to find performance bottlenecks.

On the negative side though, I find that I use other languages when I need performance or better concurrency, but that always comes at the price of lengthier development.

[pessimizer]

> Yes, one of the benefits of Rails most overlooked by it's opponents is how immensely productive it is for small to medium sized apps.

That's the only justification anybody ever uses for choosing Rails, so I'd hardly say it's overlooked.