In general, I agree with you. However, Rails' influence on other platforms has yielded some great projects. My current favorite is play (http://www.playframewor

In general, I agree with you. However, Rails' influence on other platforms has yielded some great projects. My current favorite is play (http://www.playframework.org http://www.playframework.org). It's almost a one-to-one feature port of Rails to Java, but actually manages to do it in a way that works very well and very pragmatically. I'm at least as productive in Play as I am in Rails, and that's after many years of Rails development.