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Ruby the gateway drug

Rafe gives a different take on the popularity of Rails.

In many ways, I think that Ruby on Rails is the best development yet for Java developers. It brings more people into the MVC-centric, test infected, object-relational fold, and it gives us a platform that we Java developers can learn that retains all of our best practices but gives us the implementation speed advantage of a dynamic language. I don't know about you, but I'm much more like to port my PHP applications to Ruby on Rails than my Java applications.