Zed Shaw, considered a God in the Rails community, today says “Rails Is A Ghetto” and tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).

Ruby, as a language is great, but RoR is a framework, it’s like buying a chair from Ikea instead of getting someone to build you a bespoke one. Or as someone once said

…it’s like trying to turn a train into a boat. It’s do-able with a lot of glue.

Frameworks are great if you are churning out lots of similar web sites, it saves you having to do repetitive work. But even starting from scratch you can build just about anything in 3 months even with a small team and frameworks become a hindrance in these situations, unless you actually built the framework.