Ryan Bates of Railscasts.com has just released a new screencast and it showcases the pure power of the Rails framework. In his new video, Ryan shows you how to create a blog in about 15 minutes. DHH did this eons ago with Rails 0.5 and Ryan's new video is just as amazing now as DHH's original video was then .  If you have a potential customer that needs to be convinced of just how quickly Rails allows you to turn ideas into business logic and code, just show them this video.

If they need even more convincing, talk to them about the speed at which the Rails group is adding amazing new extremely useful features. Default Scoping, Only & Except Routing, Object.try and even better Conditional Get Support are all post 2.0 rails features that have been released in the recent months. (Ryan Daigle's blog "Ryan's Scraps" is a great place to keep up with the newest Edge Rails features, even the official Ruby on Rails blog links to his new feature explanations.)

Need even more convincing? Tell them about the stunningly active Rails community of developers: the blogs, the podcasts, the screencasts, the conferences and the user groups. Even the IRC channel rocks (#rubyonrails on freenode). A community this involved is sure to thrive.