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Not sure it's fair to say Rails is stagnating. Rails 3 (particularly with the improvements in ActiveRecord) is significantly leaner and nicer to use than Rails 2.

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"stagnating __compared to the hype it had couple or more years ago__"

New API for ActiveRecord, modularity, merging with Merb are very important, but it's not a game-changer. Rubinius and RubyMine on the other side are game-changers.

I welcome the stagnation! We started development with Rails when it was at 0.7, and the pain of keeping up with a rapidly developing framework was something I felt some level of resentment for.

I wouldn't say Rails is stagnating, I'd say it is maturing.

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