Of course those are valid points but we are comparing default feature sets here. Otherwise Rails has a crippled template language, database generated from model

Of course those are valid points but we are comparing default feature sets here. Otherwise Rails has a crippled template language, database generated from model and automatic admin too. Have you actually used Rails? Rails has fragment caching built in and you can use a different template engine very easily (just install the engine xyz you want to use and write templates with extension .xyz instead of .erb)