[ev_rolfe]

In short, yes its still worth it, Rails is a mature and fully-fledged framework which is not going away anytime soon. From a business perspective there is no shortage of rails work to be had.

Anecdotally, I'm also seeing more and more traditional organisations move from "corporate world" frameworks (Java, .NET etc.) to RoR because they are seeing how fast smaller companies and startups that use RoR are able to get things done. Probably also a side effect of how much people from the startup world like to brag about how much they can "get done".

Though as a result of people seeing how fast you can get things done in rails, I've seen a lot of really poorly coded rails sites which does hinder progress. However I think that is an inevitable outcome of any good framework - if you make it easy to get the boring work done then that will have two effects:

1. it allows good developers to skip over boring or repetitive work and focus their efforts on hard problems.

2. it allows inexperienced or just plain bad developers to churn out applications which may get the job done but the code will be a mess.

So yes if you enjoy coding in RoR then I see no reason not to stick with it. However I'd suggest you pick one language/framework and stick with it. This might not be an opinion appreciated by the hacker news crowd but the reality of getting work as a freelancer is that most managers or potential clients will be more impressed if you can say "5 years experience with Ruby on Rails" rather than "5 years experience as a programmer - working with Go, Rust, Node.JS, Ruby on Rails".