I know you were mostly kidding, but it made me think. Yes -- the Dark Side of rails is the (obvious) realization that it's still just a framework (built on the

I know you were mostly kidding, but it made me think. Yes -- the Dark Side of rails is the (obvious) realization that it's still just a framework (built on the ruby language), in which just as crappy code can be written as any PHP, Python, Java, C++, etc application. There is no panacea. No escape 100% from the ability to shoot yourself in the foot. No silver bullet. Nor has any rails fanboi (to my knowledge) said rails was ever any of that... but Yes, the Obies of the world really should just ignore the flameboys at this point in the RoR lifecycle.