Personally, I find the default Rails stack is completely fine for everything I need. I'd not even heard of half of these options in the "alternative stacks" in TFA and the comments here until today. OK, I'd heard of HAML and the other unit testing frameworks, but that's it.
I don't think there's really a big issue here. People could just as easily get distracted by all the different npms in node.js, or the different technologies in the enterprise Java world.
Personally, I find the default Rails stack is completely fine for everything I need. I'd not even heard of half of these options in the "alternative stacks" in TFA and the comments here until today. OK, I'd heard of HAML and the other unit testing frameworks, but that's it.
I don't think there's really a big issue here. People could just as easily get distracted by all the different npms in node.js, or the different technologies in the enterprise Java world.