SEO, SEM, web design, coding, iPhone, iPad, Android 

I don't think anyone can argue that some of the hype has disappeared, but rails is going strong. Traffic to my blog keeps increasing, and do does the number of subscribers. The upcoming rails conf sold out in a very short time, with more tickets than before. version 1.2 came out recently and work on 2.0 is going strong.

Could be that people are too busy doing it that they don't spend so much time talking about it?

BTW, it seems, me included, tag with rails instead of "ruby on rails" where you'll see more activity.

So Rails is doing just fine :)