[karmajunkie]

its a bit more complicated than not being shiny anymore. For a lot of veterans, what's touted as best practices in the Rails community lead to maintenance headaches and performance issues in large scale long-lived applications. Rails apps tend to have a high degree of coupling internally and to gems that Just Work™ (except for when they Just Don't™).

[socceroos]

Also, as the industry has shifted away from monolithic web frameworks to tightly controlled 'microservices' then the relevance of something as heavy as RoR wanes.

[karmajunkie]

Right, although personally I think there'll be a heavy backlash against microservices (that's already begun in some circles.)

[socceroos]

Yeah, the whole industry cycles between ideals; each generation rediscovering the benefits and drawbacks of each. Hence the renaissance of event driven applications.

It's all good. Go with the flow and learn. ;)