To be fair, you can answer those questions on the Ruby on Rails site, or through a number of google searches. > I don't use Ruby on Rails, because -- honestly

To be fair, you can answer those questions on the Ruby on Rails site, or through a number of google searches. > I don't use Ruby on Rails, because -- honestly -- I'm not quite sure what Ruby on Rails means. Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. (from http://rubyonrails.org http://rubyonrails.org) > Does it mean using a Mac and TextMate like that guy in those cool screencasts? TextMate on OS X has long been the favored Rails editor, but the classic editors are still going strong. See VIM for Rails and Emacs for Rails. For a full-on IDE, check out RadRails, RubyMine, 3rd Rail, or Netbeans for Ruby. (from http://rubyonrails.org/download http://rubyonrails.org/download) > Does it mean Ruby, the language? I don't care about that. It means writing in Ruby, the language. If you don't care about that fine, but the answer is clear from the get-go. > Does it mean Rails, the framework? I don't really understand the appeal. Yes, Rails means Rails as a framework. The appeal (from the website) is being able to write clearer code because in most cases sane defaults are provided. The rest of your comment is specifically about your experience with one Rails app which I've never used, so I'm leaving that alone. The point of my comment wasn't to slam .NET. I've got no personal beef, but when someone asks why I don't do current_project as a .NET app I don't know how to respond because I don't know exactly what they mean.