Rails is still an awesome and mature choice for web development. That it is past the hype cycle is actually a strength not a weakness. That said, now that PHP-

Rails is still an awesome and mature choice for web development. That it is past the hype cycle is actually a strength not a weakness. That said, now that PHP-based frameworks have caught up on Rails and PHP is heading in a pretty awesome direction, I don't have personally any use for Ruby at the moment. Using PHP I get a much easier deployment, better performance and probably the best optional typing story of any mainstream language. Sure deploying Rails apps isn't that bad either, especially when using Docker-based setups and Ruby is a beautifully designed language that is worth learning for fun but for me the advantages are simply not as big as to justify the little bit of extra resistance. Probably would rather go for Elixir or something if I am already going for a more niche language. Though were might be stuff outside of Rails that might of interest.