needing to learn Ruby.
But why wouldn't you just use Rails and learn Ruby in the process? The "effort" required to learn Ruby pales in comparisson to the advantages using Ruby on Rails might give you, imho.
Ruby is an excellent language, not much different from Python with its own set of advantages and problems (I really mis python's white-space indentation for example, but that is fully compensated by Ruby's nice OOP features). With a book like "Programming Ruby" you would be up to speed in a few days.
Rails gives you much more than a comparable set of Python libraries which are gobled together with sticky tape. It provides you not just with an superbly integrated and consistent set of components. Rails gives you:
- (real) automation (take a look at scaffolding for quick prototyping)
- terrific documentation (the videos are *not* a gimmick, for example)
- an enthousiastic, supportive user community (that alone is an incredible help and time saver)
have fun,
Iwan
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