Yes, Rails is a great framework to be very productive in so a great fit for new project.s Hiring has not been a major problem, having hired for ruby developers

Yes, Rails is a great framework to be very productive in so a great fit for new project.s Hiring has not been a major problem, having hired for ruby developers and for php developers (in another company). I found that the average level of ruby devs was much higher than php devs (probably has changed with the massive facebook layoffs). Otherwise Django is quite good too and very similar philosophy to rails and ruby, but I like Ruby just a bit more in term of productivity. Personally, if it's my own side project, I'm partial to Elixir and Phoenix, but definitely harder to hire for.