In the past three years, Ruby on Rails has come from nowhere to achieve a leadership position among web application platforms. Ruby on Rails has become the preferred platform for new web applications because developers can create sophisticated sites quickly.
The soaring popularity of Ruby on Rails has left most web designers and developers a generation behind. "Rails delivers a great productivity boost once a developer is up-to-speed, but the
leap to Rails from technologies such as PHP can be difficult," commented Michael Slater, president of Collective Knowledge Works, Inc.
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