Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails has been making some noise lately. How true is the hype that this is an easy to use tool for webmasters in web development? I have yet to use this open source application.

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I always keep meaning to take an in depth look at ruby on rails, I think I heard that it had some security issues recently but from the look of it you need to write a lot less code than say php to reach the same result.

I think I heard that it had some security issues recently but from the look of it you need to write a lot less code than say php to reach the same result.
But there's also a market for the same language but java can be more efficent.