What if not ROR?

Question

Ruby on Rails

The last time I dealt with ROR was in 2010 and it was wildly popular back then. But that's why he went to java and the bloody enterprise.
And so, within the framework of the "project at leisure" heading, I decided to file one portal, and for this, some framework with a high XXP index would be ideal (crap, crap, and in production)
Of course, the first thing I sent to look at ROR and noticed that he, so to speak, is blown away. It's not as innovative anymore. Many projects stopped contributing, mostly in 2013, as if some kind of rubypocalypse happened then.
For example, this article , for example, they write that github is not updated to rails version 4, because there is nothing particularly new there.
So is it worth it now to think about ruby ​​and ror, or take some other technology that is now on the rise.

Answer 1

Oh, I feel you will begin to read morality in the topic for such an approach, although many who "return to the topic to make some project on some framework" ask this question.
Start by watching this video, it will explain to you why the decline occurs (even though the video is not only about rails). Very strictly recommended for viewing, it will be useful and fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPFRUM_oDKA
I, having looked at it, still want to sit down and understand Rails again.
And for your question, if you want something innovative, try to deal with the MEAN stack (node.js, express.js, angular, mongodb). Hype around it now. There is also a SAILS JS framework as an alternative to rails.
There is an even more innovative thing - Meteor .
I decided for myself that I need to study Rails as the most academic framework, there is a lot of documentation on it, everything is already settled and whatever one may say, it is being finished, in the fifth version many new goodies will be added soon. And I will study Meteor, because it seems to be the future.

Answer 2

RoR, of course, may be blown away, but here the point is rather that since 2010 the Web development landscape itself has changed a lot. In 2010, no one really knew either AngularJS, or LESS, or even GruntJS. Now it is difficult to imagine a project without some kind of front-end builder and, accordingly, a front-end framework. Rails in such a project will mainly issue JSON, what kind of innovations are there.
As an alternative, you can take Play, which, of course, has a high "HXI index", but still is unlikely to be higher than Rails.

Answer 3

Try Elixir / Phoenix .
This is perhaps the best that is now available for web development. Most of the RoR developers ran away to Elixir/Phoenix. Because Elixir is similar to Ruby in many ways, the Phoenix framework itself is also similar in structure to RoR. But unlike RoR, there is much less magic in the Phoenix framework, it is practically non-existent. Plus, Elixir runs on OTP/Erlang, which means it's very, very fast! For example, the guys from meduza.io have been turning it into production for a long time.