When I first started Rails I too was impressed by the scaffold generator. Now, as a more advanced Rails developer, I find myself only really generating Models,

When I first started Rails I too was impressed by the scaffold generator. Now, as a more advanced Rails developer, I find myself only really generating Models, Migrations and Resources. View and Controllers are almost entirely written from scratch. As per the point about the speed of development - I found that I continued to get faster and faster as I started to understand the configuration magic of Rails and how to harness the power of gems as part of my workflow. I must admit that Ruby on Rails was the first web framework I learned. Since then, I have dabbled with Python's Django, PHP's CakePHP and even Express on Node.js. What I tend to find is that other MVC web frameworks seem to be imitating Rails - so rather than use a follower I just stuck with the leader, Ruby on Rails. Until there is a much better alternative (looking at you Meteor/Node.js frameworks) I will be a happy Rails dev.