I personally prefer ASP.NET MVC, it has all the core parts of early Rails (back when it was nice and simple), and it's statically typed to boot. The most magic

I personally prefer ASP.NET MVC, it has all the core parts of early Rails (back when it was nice and simple), and it's statically typed to boot. The most magic thing in .NET MVC is Entity Framework, and all it's magic is either a bunch of strongly typed convention classes (of which you can create your own), or LINQ queries, which work pretty well. If I'm building stuff for Adults with Money I'll choose static typing any day.