There has been so much hype surrounding Ruby on Rails. Even the mailing list for my beloved CGI:Application framework was being littered with posts comparing the two or about how to make thinks more railsesque. But on the other hand, I had spent so much time coding my previous site engine in Perl and perfecting it that I didn’t know if it would be worth the effort to learn a new platform, a new language with a different set of idioms, and rewrite working code. Well in about two months (my first commit was April 6th), I have a working site that is nearly feature comparable (and in some cases far surpasses) with my previous design. Rails really is a very powerful web development platform.