Though it's not a good idea to compare a CMS (Drupal) with Rails(framework) but since your's is a review site - Drupal seems to be a better choice. Most of the

Though it's not a good idea to compare a CMS (Drupal) with Rails(framework) but since your's is a review site - Drupal seems to be a better choice. Most of the things that you will need for site are in-built. Including - user profiles, custom content types etc. It will speed up your development time 10x. Also, you can easily run Drupal on any shared hosting, while a Rail apps is enough to get you banned for server overload. Drupal is right choice for user-generated content site. If you are building an app, then think of Rails. I am not a very techie either but I own several content driven sites and some Rails apps, so sharing my 2 cents. Hope you are not thinking of switching later. Rewriting the whole thing in another language will be waste of time and money.