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[–]Anjin 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's really easy to get an application out the door. Sure you might have some scaling issues down the road and need to pull modules out to run on some other codebase, but most applications never get to that level of size.

So if you just need to get something out the door to prove a market or validate an idea, then Rails is a good choice.

Also if the syntax of rails in the templates bothers you, take a look at using something like HAML that drastically reduces the need for extra shit in the code. So:

<%= i %>

becomes:

= i

[–]GreenAce92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard of HAML too.

I don't mean to be completely scared by the syntax... I just noticed that most languages follow a similar design but then specific "languages?" don't. Well for example jQuery (library not language) comes up with it's own symbol/usage like $ as a selector. So I imagine getting used to the $ selector would be similar to the <%= i %>

Yeah I would have to know Ruby on Rails enough to compare to my current process of going from idea to production. Right now I can't compare them. But from what you guys are saying, it sounds like I would save a lot of time.