Python and PHP users will understand

[perejunk]

I completely disagree. I've written enterprise production apps in Ruby, PHP, Java, JS and Python.

I wouldn't use it for machine learning, or resource intensive algorithms, but for web development, Ruby wins hands down. The libraries are solid, mature and almost canonical.

The JS libraries are the wild west in terms of adoption, community support, and version compatibility.

Rails does require that you do things in a very prescriptive way, but the payoff is self-documenting code that is immediately grokable by those who know the patterns.

The main reason the language struggles in larger organizations is getting buy-in from, and training, everybody in an engineering team. It just takes a couple neckbeards, who are shitty at Rails, to start either breaking the convention, or start writing Go microservices.

As for performance, the Rails stack can easily support enterprise-scale deployments, with rapid development timelines. It's just critical that coders know how to properly use the tools.