I noticed this on the comments on Scoble’s post yesterday, and Curt Hibbs reminded about me about it. Very interesting, and if true, says a whole lot about Rails. I’m going through the same process at the moment, rewriting our .NET application in Rails. Although I won’t be done in a week (!) I’m finding it to be a very smooth (and fun) experience.

I now develop everything in RoR.

I managed a development of an internet portal system for a University. I was employed for three years (until the end of this month!) and had a project budget of £1.2 million. We built in .NET and based most of the framework on Microsoft Content Management Server. It took 4 developers, 2 SQL boxes, several hundred thousand lines of code and many, many hundreds of thousands of pounds to get something that was so-so together.

I reimplemented the whole thing in RoR in about a week, on my own, and it was a quicker system when it was finished. I was able to develop on my feeble little iBook, deploy onto a FreeBSD server and plug it into MySQL. The finished product looked identical to the MS solution but was cheaper, quicker and more fun to develop.