People take for granted that Rails provides the closest thing to Aspect Oriented Programming that exists today (that I know of).

I don’t use rails regularly anymore, but I used it long enough to appreciate what it gives you. As long as developer efficiency and time to market is more important than than micro performance optimizations, Rails and other options that emphasize developer efficiency will continue to succeed.

Unless you’re in an established enterprise environment, that is generally going to be the story.