Because for startup to survive it needs to take minimal time from paper napkin idea pitch to production deployment. And RoR has all the bells and whistles packa

Because for startup to survive it needs to take minimal time from paper napkin idea pitch to production deployment. And RoR has all the bells and whistles packaged together. The quicker the time - the quicker VC's gets return on their investment. Having said that, please note that ruby on rails is one of the slowest performing frameworks: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7&test=query http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...