Depends what your goals are. if you want to learn a lot; you could write it in PHP/MySQL; if you just wanna get it done, you could do it in Rails (or some other

Depends what your goals are. if you want to learn a lot; you could write it in PHP/MySQL; if you just wanna get it done, you could do it in Rails (or some other framework). The thing is, there are really lots of ways something like that could be achieved. I use Ruby/Rails for philosophical reasons; I really love the language and framwork. I could do php - i just don't like php. Been there, done that. Others prefer JS for everything, or maybe ASP. None are "wrong". but there are differences and tradeoffs to each path; its not arbitrary by any measure. If you want some fancy search, I do favor elasticsearch quite a bit. Everything else I've used doesn't compare. (but again, largely preference (because its better))