Thank you for an informative article, it was very helpful, but the result is probably not what you intended.

>> Rails also has many drawbacks in that it removes almost all of the ease of deployment of Ruby. Compared to the simple FTP upload of eRuby, deploying a Rails application is complicated, time consuming task and just not something that you will want to do on a repetitive basis. <<

Thank you for dispelling any lingering doubts that I had about the usefulness of Ruby. Now I know for sure that I will not waste my time learning it. See this link for more about the subject:
oreillynet: 7 reasons I switched back

>> Ruby has advantage over other OOP languages in that it can be used to code procedurally. <<

er uh, ever heard of PHP ?

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