First off, it's not baseless, it really would take an hour or two for someone who is familiar with Meteor, since it's built for helping you create exactly this

First off, it's not baseless, it really would take an hour or two for someone who is familiar with Meteor, since it's built for helping you create exactly this type of applications. I was not discounting the work that was done but pointing out that a better platform for this application corner case would be something actually built to support real-time web applications from the ground up with less context switching, such as a full JavaScript solution. It would simply take less time and resources to build it all in JavaScript from the beginning if you're familiar with it, whether the framework was Meteor or other frameworks. There's nothing trendy about this value judgement. Which specific part do you disagree with? I'm not saying that Meteor is killing RoR, now you're bringing your own bias and baggage from other stories that you disagree with into this discussion. My point was for this specific application case, not broadly for all applications and implementations.