I'd say that Rails made it much more quick to get started with web development than Java and Python did at the time, maybe. Certainly, I could do the same thing

I'd say that Rails made it much more quick to get started with web development than Java and Python did at the time, maybe. Certainly, I could do the same things with PHP as I could with the new hotness that was Rails, but I did it much more quickly with Rails and I ended up with nicer code. Node.js hasn't helped me in a similar way, but maybe I'm missing something.