Abraham Vionas wrote:

> As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering about the differences in
> terms of web development time and effort between PHP, Ruby, and Python. and
> I found myself wondering how much effort the Rails framework saves me from.
> Does anyone else out there have the experience to be able to compare these?
> I'm partly curious because I've found it so difficult to get Rails going on
> windows, while PHP was comparatively very easy. And Python I've just heard
> is wonderful - i.e. "Google uses it". My curiousity with Rails is born out
> of the fact that I've never used a scripting language for web development
> and so have no clue how much any framework helps in terms of effort/time
> saved.
> 
>  
> 
> I appreciate any light anyone can throw on this subject! :-)

I haven't used Python for any web projects, but I've used PHP 
extensively in the past. PHP did well for small projects, but become 
more of a chore as it grew larger. I have never used Ruby on Rails for a 
web project, but I do use the Arrow framework for ruby.

http://www.rubycrafters.com/projects/Arrow/

to get a description on it see: 
http://www.rubycrafters.com/arrow-manual/whatis.html

I love Arrow, and it's framework really gives a nice and clean design 
element to web based projectsm, both small and large. (I said design 
element, i haven't had a enterprise app I've been able to benchmark for 
speed on)

I don't like PHP's syntax among other things, so I don't use it anymore.

When I learned Ruby, I attempted to learn Python to. And I decided that 
I liked Ruby way more then I liked Python.

So I use Ruby!

Zach