If you're a perl head, try one of the modern web frameworks for Perl, such as Catalyst http://www.catalystframework.org/ http://www.catalystframework.org/ As a

If you're a perl head, try one of the modern web frameworks for Perl, such as Catalyst http://www.catalystframework.org/ http://www.catalystframework.org/ As a long-time pythoneer, I first had a look at RoR, but not being able to reuse old code and programming prowess is a letdown, so I tried Django and I liked it. tl;dr: There's rails-like frameworks for many languages now. If you're heavily invested in one programming language, try the web frameworks there.