Ruby and rails are still great - excellent for getting something up quickly and more than adequate for 90% of sites out there. When you need more real time features or high end scalability/fault tolerance, then I’d use phoenix

• ruby is my favourite OOP language
• elixir (/Erlang) is my favourite functional language

I wanted to learn Ruby before, but now, I think I’ll give it a shot

RoR is still relevant to the community because there are still a lot of applications built with Ruby / Rails. However, if there are no new use cases, it will not be relevant to most of the comtemporarily applications.