I didn't mean to say that no one uses rails because they like it -- I fully understand that rails was not only caused a watershed moment for web development (particularly server side), especially when what came before was java in large part. Also, having survived perl I've never seen a "scripting" language handle flexible syntax/paradigms as beautifully as ruby has -- it is certainly a beautiful language.
I think the increased productivity, beautiful language that rails is pushed everyone in the right direction, I just personally think stopping there is a bad idea, and that while rails is great it's not necessarily the reason it's in widespread use.
I didn't see any mention in the article of comparing install rates for rails versus other platforms (since of course this info is hard to get) -- and there are tons of rails-ish software out there (django being a huge one). If django had been the thing to break through and rails came after I think the roles would simply be reversed.
I think the increased productivity, beautiful language that rails is pushed everyone in the right direction, I just personally think stopping there is a bad idea, and that while rails is great it's not necessarily the reason it's in widespread use.
I didn't see any mention in the article of comparing install rates for rails versus other platforms (since of course this info is hard to get) -- and there are tons of rails-ish software out there (django being a huge one). If django had been the thing to break through and rails came after I think the roles would simply be reversed.