[cultofmetatron]

while rails is great, its comparative advantage has wanned a lot over the verses since it first came out. Its biggest competitors were spring and zend framework (also hunchentoot if you're THAT kind of guy). compared to those, ruby was a breath of fresh air.

Nowadays it has to compete with nodejs, phoenix framework, django and laravel. all of which are within 80% of developer productivity while being vastly more performant. I use phoenix framework myself and while I wish there were more packages available, developer productivity is good enough and we can get away with far less machines to do the job.