The hype is that it was finally a framework that does not build on leaky abstractions like "business layers". The downside is that it sometimes adds a few other

The hype is that it was finally a framework that does not build on leaky abstractions like "business layers". The downside is that it sometimes adds a few others... By the way: the Rails hype was 3 years ago. Now, its just one implementation of the same concept like all others.