That's been my experience as well. I prefer Rails over most Java frameworks as well due to all the sugar that comes with a fully integrated webdev stack. As

That's been my experience as well. I prefer Rails over most Java frameworks as well due to all the sugar that comes with a fully integrated webdev stack. As far as scaling, no problems so far (but this is a relatively small app). To me, as long as a certain response time is met, it's not nearly as important as being agile and organized. All the frameworks have trade offs. But to me, Rails seems like a good place to be not only because of its technical merits, but also because its strong and innovative community...which is constantly improving the framework (as well as Ruby itself).