Re his scenario # 2, if someone is not married to Ruby, Drupal is the obvious way to go. The modular design means that adding new functionality is generally tri

Re his scenario # 2, if someone is not married to Ruby, Drupal is the obvious way to go. The modular design means that adding new functionality is generally trivial (by adding or extending an existing module) so there's no need to hack the core. Why reinvent the wheel when you get a CMS with localization, ecommerce, security, user management, query building etc etc etc all for free?