The author leaves the business needs completely off the table, even though it would help his case. If you have a limited amount of time to launch your product in your current round of funding, and you want a framework that helps a small number of tech employees build working first generation critical features reasonably quickly, handle a large number of tasks not critical to the company&#x27;s value proposition reasonably well, can be maintained and scaled on a variety of PaaS options well long enough until the company is profitable enough to move to the next phase of tech infrastructure, is Rails attractive software? I&#x27;m not an expert with it, and I don&#x27;t even enjoy using it, but I believe it is.