Why is it the only non-cancer backend framework?
I like both Python and C# more than Ruby and use C# with ASP.NET on my job but nothing beats the elegance of Rails' Controllers and ActiveRecord.
Ruby on Rails
Bentley Kelly
Ryder Green
>RoR
>not cancer
wat
Christopher Baker
OP is either retarded or a time traveller from 2007
Andrew Bailey
> elegance
> ActiveRecord
wat
Xavier Cook
Not OP, but what should I be using today to make websites then?
Jace Foster
Phalcon, Postgres, Redis and node.js if you have to.
Owen Campbell
because 9 times out of 10, it gets the job done, period. there's tons of gems; if you have a business problem to solve, chances are someone's written a gem for it. there's years of best practices built up. documentation is top-notch.
fastest way to appreciate rails is to go to something like python, start using flask, and realize how anemic and ill-equipped it is, and how much you took rails for granted.
not saying rails doesn't have its problems, but that's not what we're discussing.
Evan Anderson
If it's your personal homepage, make a static website.
Noah Phillips
Ruby on Roads is fine.
You won't find any back-end language/framework/environment that Jow Forums doesn't hate, if you give up because someone said it's shit, you won't ever get anything done.
Also fine: PHP, Node, Django.
Maybe Go, I still have to try it.
Jackson Gonzalez
Ruby on Rails*
What the hell.