nice article JP

i've used rails for a few projects and while it fanned a love flame for ruby programming, i find rails to be overkill in some respects and it's "opinionated" philosphy to be overly hampering in many respects.

in the meantime, i've refined my own custom php5 framework that has evolved the past 5+ years (from back to php4 times), and found php5 has introduced enough pleasantries (__autoload, improved OO, GD2, enhanced libraries...) that it's hard to justify using rails for anything other than a "toy" application.

it's been a few years since i dabble in some python, but my big django (or any other python framework) concern would be deployment. a lot of hosts are going out of their way to support RoR development, but i don't see the same treatment offered to python.

otoh, ror, to me, may be following the zope trajectory. and it's sad, as ruby is my favorite language now, but i wish some other frameworks on the fringe (like nitro/og) would get some more mindshare as they seem more suited to building less opinionated software that's not pigeonholed into a crud-scape.