How did the JDJ let this article slip into the magazine this month? Ruby on Rails is still all hype. Code Monkeys BEWARE!

And frankly I would stay away from Grails, too. Try decompiling the resulting Java code, and any true Object Oriented Programmer will probably lose his/her lunch.

If this keeps up, I am discontinuing my subscription.

In response to :

"Rails on its own is not thread-safe so parallelism must be found at the process level by running multiple application server processes."

... Seriously, who really wants thread-safety these days anyway? :)

I really think it's hilarious when someone writes an article about "Ruby on Rails" and think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

I've been doing Struts since 1990 and, it's pretty darn good. And, lots of developers know it, you can get "good help" when you're "good" programmer goes awol, and, now there's more important things to consider in the "web development space" at now than the back end stuff.

Also, great line about "...large sites such as NASCAR Community, Twitter, and Funny or Die are choosing to use Rails and are undeniably demonstrating Rails' readiness for prime time." Come on, large sites??!!! Were you born in 1990?

Look at the Seaside Smalltalk framework as well. See http://seaside.st/ and note that it's about 10x as efficient for the same hardware, even before tuning, than RubyOnRails.

What about groovy on grails - enhanced ruby and simplified Java - must be the next topic...

I would recommend looking at [http://www.python.org/about/ Python] and [http://djangoproject.com Django] as alternatives to the hyped RoR. I find Python much more readable dynamic programming language. Moreover, Python has a very big and loyal community and a enormous collection of open source libraries and frameworks. Django is a web framework written in Python that has many of the features of RoR and more.

God, yet another Ruby evangelist blowing his horn. Blah, blah, blah...Ruby is wonderful..Ruby is better than everything else.. ROR is the future and there's nothing else as wonderful. We've heard it all a million times on every blog and forum. Give us a break.

The world is moving towards dynamic programming languages, so the question is really a matter of which dynamic programming language will win out. Python? Ruby? Perl 6? My bet is on Ruby.

If/when RoR breaks into mainstream I'll be very surprised.

If you like PHP and think Ruby on Rails or any other MVC framework is what you're into, you might want to check out a pretty cool and full featured MVC framework for PHP called Mojavi. It's here: http://mojavi.org].