Good post and I share you thoughts about the ecosystem and you often do not have a reference.

You are C++ experienced—did you try to build your own native extensions with Node already? I am about to access a existing C lib with Node and wanted to share experiences.

Thank you!

No, I did't have to write native extensions yet. I plan to start another website with "advanced features" (like image manipulation, build of archives, etc), but I think I will try RoR to focus on development rather than on experiments.