I understand that there's not quite the same consistent 'theme' this year, but I'm not sure that's concordant with developers who are using Rails 'abandoning' i

I understand that there's not quite the same consistent 'theme' this year, but I'm not sure that's concordant with developers who are using Rails 'abandoning' it or anything like that. It's true that real-time operations like websockets are a total pain in the arse with Rails. Nobody's yet figured out an optimal solution for that sort of thing, and maybe ActionCable is a good solution. The thing is that while some demands on the web stack have changed, a lot of it is still pretty similar. We have HTTP requests, and HTML, and assets, and databases. It might turn out that Rails can also perform some other tasks that require realtime operation. Or maybe it won't be able to, and we'll be able to use some other tools. Ultimately, we're still using Rails for all of our new web apps. We've tried loads of different toolsets, but haven't found an alternative that's compelling enough to bother. So YMMV, but the fact that Rails is maybe a bit less exciting that newer frameworks doesn't mean it's not great to use any more.