This could be a core culture issue for your company.
I did this for my first startup and it gave us a great company culture. We hired a "mom" that took care of us the nerds. Over time, we knew that we could always take up the discussion during lunch time in the kitchen, like on architecture wanderings, business cases, ideas, issues, etc.
Rails is missing the V8-like phenomena Node.js has.
Imagine if we would see something like V12 in the future, a JavaScript engine running on nVidia CUDA. That's where I would like to run my Node.js from ;-)
I did this for my first startup and it gave us a great company culture. We hired a "mom" that took care of us the nerds. Over time, we knew that we could always take up the discussion during lunch time in the kitchen, like on architecture wanderings, business cases, ideas, issues, etc.