I don't understand why this post was downvoted. It seems rational and inoffensive. The main post asked for opinions and he gave his- what's wrong with that?
I think we have some idiots in our midst that will downvote simply because they don't agree. It's sad.
When I posted this, I noticed several posts in this thread that were at 0 that I thought were good, so I voted them up. Some people come here to discuss tools, some people come here to be tools.
Re:Microsoft ASP.net or Ruby on Rails?
by DanielBMarkham on Saturday June 14, 2008 @12:50PM
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Might want to look into NetTiers (www.NetTiers.com). I haven't coded in a few months, and I'm not a RoR expert, but when talking to my RoR friends it seems like NT does a lot of the same stuff.
In favor of Rails:
-There are pre-existing FOSS social network apps in rails you can modify.
-You have infinite scalability where your only multiplier is hosting cost b/c there are no windows licenses, so no obstacles to moving into the cloud, virtualizing, setting up a friend
-With rails, you are mostly saved from SQL. Castle's activerecord might do this on .net, but was lousy when I tried it a while ago. Might be better now.
-It is easy to be coddled by ASP.NET and not understand the parts underneath, which works well until the abstraction leaks (viewstate, page layout, etc).
That said, asp.net is not a bad option, and would be my second choice over the java frameworks I've tried, or php. .NET has a nice IDE and better tooling than Rails.