I don't think that's really an accurate picture. That rant is old as hell. IIRC it's about Ruby on Rails 1 — not even the now-venerable Rails 2, but the first v

I don't think that's really an accurate picture. That rant is old as hell. IIRC it's about Ruby on Rails 1 — not even the now-venerable Rails 2, but the first version that nobody on earth uses anymore. It predates Rack and Passenger and all the stuff that Rails developers have taken for granted for years now. Surely you'll agree that Rails 2 and Passenger were not late to the party. I think the biggest thing that made Rails fall from grace (to whatever degree it has) was the way it ground to a halt for what seemed like ages while they worked on Rails 3, and then when 3.0 came out, a lot of people found it unimpressive on its own merits, and even more so when viewed in light of how long it took. (This is largely because a big part of the Rails 3 work was refactoring and trying to make it less monolithic, which are good things, but the kind of good things that get you yelled at by people who don't care about them.)