Hey Paul. Yeah, that’s what I thought when I started my 2 weeks. The stuff that RoR does do – the scaffolding as one example or managing “migrations” as another – are awesome. Really incredibly powerful for rolling out quick applications. In fact I built an simple system years ago in ASP which, er, writes ASP out to the file system to do the “scaffold” thing because I realised you’d always need quick “web admin” access to db, and I’ve used it ever since – it’s interesting to see this is a common problem.

I guess it’s as much about my impatience as anything else. My “zero to A” time needs to be quicker than my “zero to application with ASP” time, which just simply isn’t ever going to happen. I was deeply impressed with what you could do with RoR straight away and *if I had the time* I’m sure I could probably save that time longer term. I just need instant gratification…

The production side of RoR is interesting. I’ve heard a load of people saying it’s REALLY slow for serious applications that are being pounded and .Net blows it away speed-wise. I dunno squit about PHP…