I can't really say anything about PHP, because I only know how to spell it. :)

In Rails we also use sqlite, jquery, etc, so I guess in that sense it should be very similar.

I like the Ruby language very much (clean, meta-programming, DSL's...)... I like the test frameworks (RSpec, Cucumber), and I like how Rails works with convention over configuration (as long as you do things the "Rails Way", you get lots of stuff done for you). So technically, it's been a lot easier for me to do Behavior Driven Development (BDD), than it was in the .NET space; both because of tooling, as well as mindset.


>>>all of the above. :)
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>Very interested in the technical merit. How would you compare to other options out there- I guess that's a "wait and see" on the blog, right? ;-) ? FWIW, in the interests of KISS (which I believe is coming back into favor as we speak) we went for browser apps using php, sqllite and jquery. We're pleased: our app is essentially hardware/OS agnostic, it's impossible for any vendor to start changing stuff to everybody else's disadvantage, and VFP people are having no trouble maintaining or learning about the scripts.