I think you may be comparing apples and oranges. From what I hear, node is not so good for large, complex projects. It has a specialized niche that it's very go

I think you may be comparing apples and oranges. From what I hear, node is not so good for large, complex projects. It has a specialized niche that it's very good at -- lightweight servers that need to either support large numbers of concurrent users, or they have to be very low-latency. Rails is good for general-purpose web development.