From: stephen.hill@... (Steve Hill)
Date: 2004-12-01T19:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python (vs. Rails)

Carl Youngblood <carlwork@ycs.biz> wrote in message 
>  With zero exposure  to web programming, I can see how Rails might take a little
>  longer to grok.

Exactly my position. I have been using Ruby for about 5 years, but
never written a web app before.

I found it quite difficult to start with - I had to re-work my working
methods a bit as I got my head round the way to do things, but after
some initial pain I am finding Rails an extremely powerful framework.
And the rubyness (or should that be rubicity) of it all is quite
stunning. I like being able to write methods which take symbols as
arguments - it makes for a very powerful framework (e.g. having a
general plotting method that takes database column names
(=ActiveRecord class memebr names) as arguments. Very neat :-)

regards,

treefrog