In fact, the philosophy of convention over configuration et all makes Rails MORE scalable and easier to onboard new people than anything else out there that I’ve seen.
I recently worked on a Rails project for someone who didn't like to create scaffolds, models or controllers for small things, thinking that it would add to the bloat. But conceptually it makes everything 10x times easier and faster to find and understand
There are soooo many blogs about migrating away from Ruby, adopting Go, Scala, whatever statically typed thing.
There's a reason even Ruby is getting a proper static type system.
Its productivity is simply hard to beat.
Most of these companies are unicorns or public. https://spreecommerce.org/ruby-on-rails-most-popular-among-t...
I doubt they can be listed as a Rails success story.
Stripe doesn't use Rails either. That was a pretty bad article. And it is somehow from Spree.
Almost all the major former startups that I could find are from 2010 or earlier.