Incidentally, the bit about many of Rails' features being a dig at Java isn't poetic license. Rails' original marketing angle was essentially "Look how differen

Incidentally, the bit about many of Rails' features being a dig at Java isn't poetic license. Rails' original marketing angle was essentially "Look how different we are from Java!" I think that's why the difficulty of deploying Rails apps in those days wasn't much of an obstacle — they positioned themselves not against PHP or Perl, but against Java, so the difficulty of deployment didn't look like so bad.