> it is not supposed to be comparison of frameworks. Well, that's sort of the whole point. The Rails part of Ruby on Rails is the framework, totally apart fro

> it is not supposed to be comparison of frameworks. Well, that's sort of the whole point. The Rails part of Ruby on Rails is the framework, totally apart from Ruby the language. Comparing RoR to plain Node.js where you have to write all the scaffolding for the presentation layer doesn't make any sense. Rails gives you a lot of that for free.