>>>>Ruby on Rails is good. It not only gives you bang for your buck but bang for your time (both learning and developing), which may be more important.
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>>>except performance, from what i hear
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>>I don't know, Twitter is created with Ruby on Rails. http://rubyonrails.org/applications
>
>This may be old but:
>http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/

Thanks for the reference, Grover. For my purposes I think the learning and development time advantages will take the day.

Alex