I have to say I'm loving reading the thoughtful and insightful comments on this thread. With any programming language and/or framework you have to pick your po

I have to say I'm loving reading the thoughtful and insightful comments on this thread. With any programming language and/or framework you have to pick your poison. Rails backloads a lot of big development obstacles that ultimately you may never actually encounter in the life of your app. The issue regarding gems can be aggravating. But the speed in which you can get your app built cannot be understated. Rails is not a one size fits all, and you might eventually outgrow rails (i.e. Twitter). Be grateful the framework got you to the point you could outgrow it, rails helped you get there.