Even for internal use, you have to worry about data integrity a lot of the time.
> I also worked at a bespoke consultancy that made Rails sites for startups
Ah, so didn't have to handle the maintenance burden afterwards. I did. Rails is awesome if you can just dump the maintenance burden on someone else and move on.
Wha...? Honestly, the presumption on this board sometimes. I was one of the 2 people who maintained the apps on AWS. There were no issues. I guess we've just had VERY different experiences.
> I also worked at a bespoke consultancy that made Rails sites for startups
Ah, so didn't have to handle the maintenance burden afterwards. I did. Rails is awesome if you can just dump the maintenance burden on someone else and move on.