I did this a year or so ago. Arrived at Rails. Close contender was Laravel. Rails won because of: 1. A awesome ORM 2. I could use Ruby for iOS applications

I did this a year or so ago. Arrived at Rails. Close contender was Laravel. Rails won because of: 1. A awesome ORM 2. I could use Ruby for iOS applications(Rubymotion). 3. JRuby 4. Great for writing scripts and little one off things I needed to do. 5. Capistrano (although you can use this with any language) 6. Opal(although this really hasn't taken off yet). 7. People are actively trying to speed the language up. MRI, JRuby, Rubinius. So I invested in Rails because of the other things I could do with Ruby in addition to web.