[joshfng]

Absolutely. If you're building a POC or MVP it's a quick and easy way to get something off the ground. The framework will take you pretty far before you have scaling issues (long enough to know if what you're making is worth it). The community is very knowledgeable and friendly, and gems for almost everything already exist.

If I needed to spin up a new project and get to work right away on something I'd go with rails no question. I've yet to find another language/framework combo that works as well as a Ruby & Rails stack (Laravel and Django are good alternatives too, I'm just more experienced with Ruby). Don't think too far ahead. Premature optimization or thinking about future scaling issues if starting a new project is time that could be spent better. Rails isn't going anywhere anytime soon.