i feel often enough that things could be simpler in rails, but still i think that rails is currently still the fastest fw to get most webapps done.
by most webapps i mean: (r)dbms-backed, uses a fair bit of html/css (not pure js), that needs to do 'common webapp things' (authentication though fb/google/etc.; audit trails; some REST api; memcache; pagination; ...)
going back -- to php, jsp or even (albeit less so) django -- would complicate things for me.
i feel at time rails might seem to take up a lot of time; but actually it is web development just being quite laborious, and rails one of the best fw to "take the pain out of it" and "providing sane defaults that can be changed where you see fit".
by most webapps i mean: (r)dbms-backed, uses a fair bit of html/css (not pure js), that needs to do 'common webapp things' (authentication though fb/google/etc.; audit trails; some REST api; memcache; pagination; ...)
going back -- to php, jsp or even (albeit less so) django -- would complicate things for me.
i feel at time rails might seem to take up a lot of time; but actually it is web development just being quite laborious, and rails one of the best fw to "take the pain out of it" and "providing sane defaults that can be changed where you see fit".