Ben Allfree :: Painless Programming

A new player, named mod_rails, promises to make Rails deployment as easy as PHP.
My primary complaint about Rails has been ease of deployment. mod_rails works just like mod_php for Apache. You simply drop your Rails files onto the server, and instant deployment abounds.
It’s slightly more complicated, actually. You need to make vhost changes to [...]

.NET has the best documentation you are going to find in any platform. It's commercial and presumably a bunch of people were paid actual money to make sure the documentation was correct and complete. For the most part, I find that to be true. In some cases it can't compete with a community-driven doc site like PHP has. Then again, a lot of the user comments for PHP address shortcomings in PHP itself. You don't have that problem with .NET.

Ruby on Rails is a great web framework because it establishes smart conventions and application structure. To those of us who already were making well-structured web applications (particularly true in the Java community), it took us a while to see what the big deal is about Rails. After all, we were already using many of the practices Rails brought to the masses.