I really like Rails - for all the CRUDish apps of the world there's nothing better: you'll avoid reinventing a lot of boring wheels. Perhaps the reason some HN

I really like Rails - for all the CRUDish apps of the world there's nothing better: you'll avoid reinventing a lot of boring wheels. Perhaps the reason some HNers are Rails-phobic is that Rails is rightly designed to be precisely the opposite of tool you want for hacks: convention over configuration, config opaquely doing as much as possible for you, and development being as far as possible snapping together canonical bricks (Devise, WillPaginate et al). If it didn't get in your way for hacks with very different requirements to the apps Rails was designed for, it wouldn't be doing its job. Right tool for the job, as ever!