Ruby on Rails and AJAX

I am doing a fair bit of server side java development at the mo and deep in the bowels of all the stuff you need.

Tomcat configuration
XML
Spring Frameworks
Hibernate
Struts
Xdoclet
Ant
Uncle tom cobbly and all.

What's more you can bet that they have thought of something else to include in the time I have written this blog entry.

It all smacks of the Emperors new clothes. 95% of web site just don't need this kind of complexity and aggravation. They don't need to scale but they need to be developed fast. Fast, but not by just running straight for a page based scripting approach like PHP. Page based approaches hit a glass ceiling real fast and after that maintaining any kind of coherent design is impossible.

So I am more and more attracted by the promises of Ruby on Rails particularly in combination with things like Prototype.js

It all sounds terribly clever and less of pain the arse.