> All that said, server-side ain't goin away, and Rails is still one of the best ways to develop server-side apps. I'm not sure. You only need a server-side if

> All that said, server-side ain't goin away, and Rails is still one of the best ways to develop server-side apps. I'm not sure. You only need a server-side if you have users, there are a lot of apps that don't need users. For those that do there's no reason why your server-side code needs to sit next to your web server as it does today. What you need is a good API framework, which Ruby does well today, but perhaps should be its primary focus in the future.