it is open source and runs on linux (and windows, and mac, probably others).
rails is an open-source web framework written in Ruby. And ruby is an open-source language (written in C)
bah yeah ill pass. this web dev stuff is starting to bore me
dude, you have to check this out. watch the 15 minute video on www.rubyonrails.com
Ok I checked it out.
Ok this is my obviously premature biased opinion. VS.NET blows this away.
VisualStudio.NET? yeah?
Yeah. C# + .NET + ASP
I don't know tough to say, I work with VS fair amount. Maybe VS.NET doesn't neccesarily have the ORM strength yet (soon to come if not already in ObjectSpaces which is gorgeous), but I use DTM for this and it works incredibly well.
A .NET app in development feels more like a standard application, and has this same focus on removing page states and automatically binding databases as it looks for Ruby on Rails in the demo. I guess the fully integrated IDE is what takes the cake for me, I get tired of figuring out what scripts do what, especially when I don't work on the same technologies or projects for more than a month at a time.
Plus a library like .NET is full, extensive, simplistic. MS moves it forward, sometimes standards move backwards