Fascinating! Right up to the end I really thought you were going to conclude, as I (more or less) have that it was worth learning RoR because it made such a great, rapid prototyping framework….

I could draw a similar graph to yours, substituting Java for that weird Microsoft throwback that you use to build applications. Of course it might be the case that Java is slower and more cumbersome than VBScript/ASP to do prototyping work, hence my recognition that I really need Rails or something like it.

On a slightly related note, the barriers to actually deploying a *production* RoR application seem to remain quite high, compared to Perl/PHP for example.

Paul