[utnick]

The big thing that rails has that .NET doesn't are the vast number of open source engines and plugins available.

For examples see here: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ , nothing like this really exists in the .net ecosystem, especially something akin to active record plugins, so you have to roll your own stuff a lot of the time when you could just use a plugin in rails.

Also, it seems like a lot of the useful .net stuff like mvc, nuget, entity framework are kind of clones of stuff that exist in the rails ecosystem already, so you are always going to be a bit behind the curve.