People sometimes balk at Rails because when they see the huge number of files and directories generated by the Rails installer, it looks crazy, complex, and ineffecient. Keep in mind that this has very little if any impact on your application's performance, and when developing code 90% of your time will be spent in the following directories: app/models
and app/hyperstack
. The rest of the files are there to hold configuration files, and seldom used content, so they have a place out of the way of your main development activities.