Comment by tferris

I have to disagree. I understand that you can get quickly the feeling that you have to do a lot of stuff manually with node because node packages (gems in node) are more kind of atomic and not full-blown like rails. You can quickly setup a rails-like-environment with node packages. There are different web frameworks which are a refreshing take compared to rails and provide same or better functionality. ORMs like ActiveRecord for SQL DB are available as well. Deployment is easy and the overall ecosystem reflected by npm (node packet manager) is very advanced and brings some innovation into this space (compared to rvm/rbenv).