[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.