krumms's Journal: RAILS!

Oh. My. God.

Ruby on Rails.

I just started playing around with it tonight ... it took me around ten minutes with little prior Ruby experience and NO prior Rails experince to do what took me around two hours in PHP (a language I've been using for about six years, four years commercially).

Wow.

Admittedly at the moment it's just a toy application. But at the very least, Ruby on Rails has earned it's place in my heart as a rapid prototyping tool.

Certainly, I'll be investigating it more in the days that follow and will evaluate it for larger projects - honestly, I'd prefer a language like Python or Ruby over PHP (yes, even PHP5) any day.

And if Ruby on Rails makes it faster to build applications than it is to do the same in PHP ... well, there's no reason not to make the switch for personal projects.