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RoR is fairly new compared to the mentioned technologies. I just think it needs more time for acceptance and maturity.

Yes, RoR is new. But at the same time. The effectiveness of the RoR hype machine at making RoR look far more important than it really is is truly amazing, which is something I have said all along. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors surrounding RoR. But once you get past them, there is no fire. No "killer web site" built with RoR, no significant job market, and no significant sourceforge showing (only 408 projects for Ruby).

As the old saying goes, Don't Believe the Hype!

it's "opinionated software" and "convention over configuration". i like to think of it as "web 2.0's perl script".

regardless, getting into language wars isn't that productive. just use as many as you like. any one claiming to win over all the others is just fooling itself.

Why would you use sourceforge as a metric?  Many more ruby projects are on rubyforge.

Real world Rails apps: http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications

"Real world Rails apps: http://www.rubyonrails.org/applications"

I didn't say there were no Rails apps. I said there are no examples of "killer" rails apps. Only small sites run by companies no one has ever heard of.

Where is ebay built on Rails? Where is the Amazon build on Rails? That kind of thing?