[Existenceblinks]

One of my favorite characteristic of Rails community is there is less to non-existence of superiority of paradigm nonsense. Since I switched to other languages/frameworks, discussion around Slack/forum is plenty of non-realworld usage .. great engineering (without user interaction). It's painful when you want to ship, not only to play.

Rails is full of libs for building real business. Github and Shopify 's engineers are around, this contributes great sense of realword usage. Features extracted from that are battle-tested.

Bonus is DHH is still involving since he loves programming anyway, and he is a great communicator, spicy tweets on HTML CSS keeps the web sane .. from those madness.

[nickjj]

Yeah this is exactly how I feel too.

Rails really is something special that can't be replicated by simply leaving the Ruby ecosystem and trying to reinvent "the good parts" in another language / framework.

You'll be missing out on one of the best parts of Rails which is an actual business extracts features into Rails from real world usage. That and Shopify + GitHub + Basecamp are running Rails master so by the time regular folks like us use a release it's already insanely tested in the real world with hundreds of millions of requests passing through these features. The confidence level that brings to the table that it's going to work for your app is unrivaled.

The massive amount of community support (gorails, etc.) and library ecosystem is icing on the cake.

[joelbluminator]

What did u switch to? I keep wondering whether I should stick to Ruby and call it a career or just look for jobs that interest me / good career move , regardless of stack.