> We've reached the turning point where you hear far more about big companies moving from rails, than switching to it. A lot of this is because 1) they jumped

> We've reached the turning point where you hear far more about big companies moving from rails, than switching to it. A lot of this is because 1) they jumped on the rails bandwagon without understanding it or if it suited their needs 2) after using rails to prototype their site, they now understand what their architecture should look like and want to start fresh 3) because they've joined the next circle jerk such ask nodejs All the rest of your post is overly vague, or simply untrue. People pick rails because it has sane defaults eg. ActiveRecord but there are plenty of other gems for other database persistence layers.